Dateline: Saigon - Cast

Dateline: Saigon (2016)
95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Dateline: Saigon (2016)

95 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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 ...See moreHow 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.' See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Arnett Self Self See fewer	15 Minutes (2001)
Malcolm Browne Self (archive footage) (as Malcolm W. Browne) Self (archive footage) (as Malcolm W. Browne) See fewer	The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Horst Faas Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Beyond Words: Photographers of War (2005)
David Halberstam Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Rowing Through (1996)
John F. Kennedy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Profiles in Courage (1964)
Madame Nhu Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	CBS Reports (1959)
Neil Sheehan Self Self See fewer	A Bright Shining Lie (1998)
Sam Waterston Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Killing Fields (1984)