Dateline: Saigon

Synopsis

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.'

Main Cast

Sam Waterston

Narrator (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 38%

Neil Sheehan

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 1%

Peter Arnett

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Malcolm Browne

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Horst Faas

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

David Halberstam

Self

Age : N/A | Popularity : 12%

Walter Cronkite

Self (archival footage)

Age : 92 | Popularity : 32%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Thomas D. Herman
Writing	Writer	Thomas D. Herman
Production	Executive Producer	Richard Chapman
	Co-Producer	Randel Cole
	Producer	Bestor Cram Thomas D. Herman
	Associate Producer	Amy Macd Marianne Harris Susan Grey
Sound	Music	Michael Josephs
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Greg McCleary
	Sound Editor	Geof Thurber
	Sound Recordist	Pepijn Aben Dominique Siemens
Editing	Editor	William A. Anderson Steven Miloszewski
	Archival Footage Research	Jenni Matz
	Online Editor	David Bigelow
	Colorist	David Bigelow
Camera	Director of Photography	Randel Cole Bestor Cram Steve Keeny Mark Bakker Abdulkarim Sabham
Crew	Post Production Supervisor	Lorie Conway
Department	Role	Name

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