Dateline: Saigon

2016
1h 35m

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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' ... Read allHow 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 She... Read allHow 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... Read all

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- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Peter Arnett

Self

Malcolm Browne

Self
(archive footage)
(as Malcolm W. Browne)

Horst Faas

Self
(archive footage)

David Halberstam

Self
(archive footage)

John F. Kennedy

Self
(archive footage)

Madame Nhu

Self
(archive footage)

Neil Sheehan

Self

Sam Waterston

Narrator
(voice)

Director
- Thomas D. Herman
Writer
- Thomas D. Herman
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Great Vietnam documentary

Excellent and worth watching. Well shot and tells the tail of the epic you journalists telling the truth in an ugly war.

10rollingpix

FIRST-RATE DOCUMENTARY

DATELINE SAIGON is a superb documentary about four American journalists caught up in the early stages of the war in Vietnam. Malcolm Brown, Peter Arnett, and Horst Faas of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times are competitors who become allies as the powers-that-be in Washington come to think of them as the enemy, because they won't swallow the blue-skies-forever falsehoods and inaccuracies presented by both the military and the civilians in the US government at the time. The story is historically truthful and fascinating. Especially when you compare and contrast the lies and falsehoods that have been foisted upon the citizens of America in the recent past. This is compelling and emotionally impactful filmmaking. See it.