Dateline: Saigon
Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth
96 mins
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.'
Thomas D. Herman
Director
Lorie Conway
Post Production Supervisor
David Bigelow
Colorist
Pepijn Aben
Sound Recordist
Amy Macd
Associate Producer
Susan Grey
Associate Producer
Dominique Siemens
Sound Recordist
David Bigelow
Online Editor
Mark Bakker
Director of Photography
Abdulkarim Sabham
Director of Photography
Bestor Cram
Director of Photography
Steve Keeny
Director of Photography
Marianne Harris
Associate Producer
Randel Cole
Director of Photography
Thomas D. Herman
Writer
Randel Cole
Co-Producer
Bestor Cram
Producer
Steven Miloszewski
Editor
Greg McCleary
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Thomas D. Herman
Producer
Geof Thurber
Sound Editor
Richard Chapman
Executive Producer
William A. Anderson
Editor
Jenni Matz
Archival Footage Research
Michael Josephs
Music