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Dateline: Saigon (2017) [NR]

Release Date:
March 7, 2017

Original Title:
Dateline: Saigon

Genres:
Documentary | History

Production Companies:
Good Neighbor Productions
Northern Light Productions

Production Countries:
Germany | Iraq | Netherlands | United States of America | Vietnam

Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR 

Runtime: 96

Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.'

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Production

Archival Footage Research:
Jenni Matz

Associate Producer:
Amy Macd
Marianne Harris
Susan Grey

Co-Producer:
Randel Cole

Colorist:
David Bigelow

Director:
Thomas D. Herman

Director of Photography:
Steve Keeny
Randel Cole
Mark Bakker
Bestor Cram
Abdulkarim Sabham

Editor:
William A. Anderson
Steven Miloszewski

Executive Producer:
Richard Chapman

Music:
Michael Josephs

Online Editor:
David Bigelow

Post Production Supervisor:
Lorie Conway

Producer:
Thomas D. Herman
Bestor Cram

Sound Editor:
Geof Thurber

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Greg McCleary

Sound Recordist:
Pepijn Aben
Dominique Siemens

Writer:
Thomas D. Herman

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