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.'

Cast

Narrator (voice)
Sam Waterston
Self
Neil Sheehan
Self
P Peter Arnett
Self
M Malcolm Browne
Self
H Horst Faas
Self
D David Halberstam
Self (archival footage)
Walter Cronkite

Crew

Director
T Thomas D. Herman
Writer
T Thomas D. Herman
Executive Producer
R Richard Chapman
Co-Producer
R Randel Cole
Producer
B Bestor Cram
Producer
T Thomas D. Herman
Music
M Michael Josephs
Editor
W William A. Anderson
Editor
S Steven Miloszewski
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
G Greg McCleary
Sound Editor
G Geof Thurber
Archival Footage Research
J Jenni Matz
Associate Producer
A Amy Macd
Associate Producer
M Marianne Harris
Associate Producer
S Susan Grey
Director of Photography
R Randel Cole
Director of Photography
B Bestor Cram
Director of Photography
S Steve Keeny
Director of Photography
M Mark Bakker
Director of Photography
A Abdulkarim Sabham
Sound Recordist
P Pepijn Aben
Sound Recordist
D Dominique Siemens
Post Production Supervisor
L Lorie Conway
Online Editor
D David Bigelow
Colorist
D David Bigelow