Watch Dateline: Saigon (2017) Online
- RUNTIME: 1h 36m
- COUNTRIES: Germany,Iraq,Netherlands,United States of America,Vietnam
- Subtitles: English
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.' Read More
Watch Dateline: Saigon online. Featuring Sam Waterston and Neil Sheehan, Dateline: Saigon is classified as Documentary and History genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the USA on 2 services such as Kanopy and OVID. The movie was filmed in Germany and was released on 2017. Dateline: Saigon was directed by Randel Cole,Bestor Cram,Jenni Matz. Read Less
