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Southeast Asia. 1960’s. Flash point of the Cold War. Dateline-Saigon is the inspiring story of a small group of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists — David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and the great photojournalist Horst Faas — who fought to report a truth that was vastly different from the rosy White House version during the early years of the Vietnam War, as their own government sought to discredit them — and worse. Dateline-Saigon is a distant mirror on a present-day drama: the determination of courageous citizens to speak truth to power. Narrated by Sam Waterston, the documentary combines the drama and high stakes of All the President’s Men with the romance and danger of The Year of Living Dangerously.
David Halberstam, The New York Times
Year: 2018
Genre: Documentary
Time: 96 minutes
Rating: Unrated
A masterful epic. The film’s lessons have clearly not been properly absorbed, which makes the Vietnam pattern so deftly conveyed so relevant today.
Peter Grose, former editor of Foreign Affairs magazine and former New York Times Saigon bureau chief
Powerful and haunting and important… Every reporter’s dream is to have the fate to cover such a big story.
Charles Sennott, co-founder Global Post and former Boston Globe foreign correspondent
Riveting, utterly gripping, beautifully edited, couldn’t take my eyes off it for a second… an incendiary document.
Christopher Lydon, former New York Times correspondent; host of WBUR’s Radio Open Source