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Dateline: Saigon

Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth

8.0(1)20171h 36m2

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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English
  • vietnam war
  • usa president
  • foreign correspondent
  • investigative journalism

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Germany, Iraq, Netherlands, United States of America, Vietnam

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    • Digital / OTT10 May 2016
    • Theatrical (limited)NRSalem, MA film festival7 Mar 2017

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Dateline: Saigon was released on 7 March 2017.

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