Movie
Dateline: Saigon
“Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth”
8.0/10
2017
1h 36m
en
Documentary
History
Overview
How does a nation slip into war? Dateline-Saigon profiles the controversial reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists -The New York Times' David Halberstam, the Associated Press' Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and legendary photojournalist Horst Faas, and UPI's Neil Sheehan -- during the early years of the Vietnam War as President John F. Kennedy is secretly committing US troops to what is initially dismissed by some as 'a nice little war in a land of tigers and elephants.' 'When the government is telling the truth, reporters become a relatively unimportant conduit to what is happening,' Halberstam tells us. 'But when the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important.'
Director
Thomas D. Herman
Writers
Thomas D. Herman
Movie Information
Release Date
March 7, 2017
Runtime
1h 36m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
1
Production
Good Neighbor Productions
