Dateline: Saigon (2017)
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
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Sam Waterston as Narrator (voice) |
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Neil Sheehan as Self |
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Peter Arnett as Self |
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Malcolm Browne as Self |
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Horst Faas as Self |
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David Halberstam as Self |
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Walter Cronkite as Self (archival footage) |
| Directing | Thomas D. Herman | Director |
| Production | Amy Macd | Associate Producer |
| Production | Marianne Harris | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susan Grey | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Randel Cole | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Bestor Cram | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Steve Keeny | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mark Bakker | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Abdulkarim Sabham | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Pepijn Aben | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Dominique Siemens | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Lorie Conway | Post Production Supervisor |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Online Editor |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Colorist |
| Writing | Thomas D. Herman | Writer |
| Production | Richard Chapman | Executive Producer |
| Production | Randel Cole | Co-Producer |
| Production | Bestor Cram | Producer |
| Production | Thomas D. Herman | Producer |
| Sound | Michael Josephs | Music |
| Editing | William A. Anderson | Editor |
| Editing | Steven Miloszewski | Editor |
| Sound | Greg McCleary | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Geof Thurber | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Jenni Matz | Archival Footage Research |
