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Culture Watch Review: Enemy of the People?

If you care about history, if you care about journalism and if you care about the truth, “Dateline – Saigon” is essential viewing. Read the review at smdp.com...

20 August, 2020

13 August, 2020

The best American documentary about the Vietnam War since Peter Davis’s 1974 Academy Award winning Hearts and Minds.

— The Hollywood Progressive

13 August, 2020

An essential film.

— Cape Cod Times

Dateline-Saigon remembers the journalists who revealed a dirty war

Dateline-Saigon’s release comes as the country is more divided than at any time since the 1960s. The fault lines are familiar — civil rights, brutal crackdowns of protests, state-sponsored attempts to delegitimize the press. Read the interview at star-revue.com...

06 August, 2020

‘Dateline-Saigon’ Documentary Explores Evolution of Five Pulitzer-Winning Journalists

When Tom Herman began making his documentary "Dateline-Saigon" about the journalists who covered Vietnam, he didn't realize he would end up with five Pulitzer-winning protagonists. Learn more about how their stories came to be told. Read the article at pulitzer.org...

23 July, 2020

Yes! Weekly Video Vault

Sam Waterston narrates writer/producer/director Thomas D. Herman's award-winning 2016 feature documentary debut, a clear and concise chronicle of the early days of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Read the article at yesweekly.com...

22 July, 2020

‘Dateline-Saigon’: What’s Old Is New Again

What is new and valuable in Dateline-Saigon is how Herman and crew have melded those old interviews with evocative still photography and news film and with primary-source material to create a narrative that tells this well-known story quite well. Read the review at vva.org...

18 July, 2020

New movies to stream this week: “Dateline-Saigon”

Narrated by Sam Waterston, the documentary “Dateline-Saigon” is a portrait of five journalists who fought to report on the early days of the Vietnam War differently than the rosy version put forth by the White House. Read the article at washingtonpost.com...

16 July, 2020

Covering Vietnam

Dateline-Saigon is arguably the best American documentary about the Vietnam War since Peter Davis’s 1974 Academy Award winning Hearts and Minds. Read the review at progressive.org...

14 July, 2020

‘Dateline-Saigon’ Review: Challenging the Official Story

Dateline-Saigon captures a swirl of personalities and conveys the excitement of reporting in a fast-moving, confusing and dangerous atmosphere. Read the review at nytimes.com...

14 July, 2020

Flip Side Reviews: DVDs of the Week: Dateline-Saigon

When Tom Herman began making his documentary "Dateline-Saigon" about the journalists who covered Vietnam, he didn't realize he would end up with five Pulitzer-winning protagonists. Learn more about how their stories came to be told. Read the article at flipsidereviews.blogspot.com...

14 July, 2020

Atlanta Film Critics Circle Review

“Fake news” is nothing new. I’d be surprised if our schools are teaching as much of this history as you can learn from this film. Read the review at www.facebook.com/AtlantaFilmCriticsCircle...

14 July, 2020

DATELINE-SAIGON Review – Bright, Shining Truth

DATELINE-SAIGON is especially recommended to students of history or those who think about journalistic integrity. If you are looking for lite entertainment and escape, this is not the film for you. Read the article at .picturethispost.com...

08 July, 2020

Overlooked & Underrated Docs & Features

Although “Dateline-Saigon” tells a seven-decade old story, the issue of journalistic transparency is as vital and urgent and dangerous as ever. “Dateline-Saigon” is rich in character and story. Read the review at cinesourcemagazine.com...

21 June, 2020

First Run Features presents the release of Dateline-Saigon

Coming to Amazon, Apple TV and other VOD streaming platforms, and DVD - July 14, 2020 . Read the press release: Press Release PDF...

09 June, 2020

The important journalistic lessons of Vietnam

The best of today’s reporters approach their jobs with a healthy skepticism because of the lessons of Vietnam and what they have learned from Sheehan, Halberstam, and other intrepid reporters of that earlier era. Read the opinion at www.bostonglobe.com...

18 September, 2019

Center for Media at Risk Interview with Thomas D. Herman

On October 16, 2018, the Center for Media at Risk hosted a screening of Thomas D. Herman’s documentary film, Dateline-Saigon. The event was co-sponsored with the Annenberg Public Policy Center and Penn Cinema and Media Studies. Read the interview at www.ascmediarisk.org...

16 October, 2018

MNFF 2018: Coffee with The Great Documentarians

On-stage conversation featuring director Tom Herman and special guests Le Lieu Browne ( Malcolm Browne’s widow) and Thomas Vallely, (Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Senior Advisor to Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War) following the screening of Dateline: Saigon. hosted by Jay Craven. Watch the video: youtube.com...

29 August, 2018

MNFF 2018: On-stage Conversation with Director Tom Herman and Special Guests

On-stage conversation featuring director Tom Herman and special guests Le Lieu Browne ( Malcolm Browne’s widow) and Thomas Vallely, (Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and Senior Advisor to Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War) following the screening of Dateline: Saigon. hosted by Jay Craven. Watch the video: youtube.com...

29 August, 2018

The documentarian

Tom Herman, Director of "Dateline-Saigon," a documentary film about five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists' groundbreaking reporting during the early years of the Vietnam War. Herman attended the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival last weekend. www.addisonindependent.com...

28 August, 2018

At BIFF: ‘Dateline: Saigon’ — The struggle for truth when government lies

Five journalists unveil how they struggled to reveal the truth in response to the lies being told by the American Government. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Read the article at theberkshireedge.com...

31 May, 2018

What would David Halberstam do?

What would Halberstam have done? It’s a question White House reporters would be wise to ask themselves today. The answer is simple in concept but hard in practice, and often dangerous: Speak truth to power. Read the article at poynter.org...

24 January, 2018

WBUR/NPR All Things Considered Interview: Boston Lawyer Explores His Change Of Heart On The Vietnam War Through Documentary

Tom Herman decided to explore that change of heart he and so many Americans had about Vietnam. So he embarked on a feature-length documentary film, 'Dateline-Saigon,' that took 12 years to complete. Listen to the interview and read more interview highlights at www.wbur.org...

17 August, 2017

Documentary about Vietnam War reporters holds lessons for the present

Like an illumination round fired from an artillery shell, a new documentary film titled 'Dateline—Saigon' lights up the darkness over the current battle field for truth, where American journalism now finds itself in an intense firefight with the White House. Read the article here: thegroundtruthproject.org...

04 August, 2017

‘Dateline-Saigon’. This is an essential film.

It’s a fascinating history lesson overall about those years of the war, but the struggle of the journalists. This is an essential film. Read the article at capecodtimes.com...

27 July, 2017

18 May, 2017

Powerful, beautifully realized, incredibly timely.

— Joe Pichirollo, Chair, undergraduate film department, New York University

18 May, 2017

Told with passion and verve "Dateline-Saigon" is a story of why journalism mattered — and why it still matters today.

— Joel Simon, Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists

18 May, 2017

Dateline-Saigon tells a story of five journalists who, at great peril, dared to challenge a president and the conventional wisdom of the entire national security establishment. While vividly illuminating events of a half century ago, its relevance to what is happening today is remarkable. Anyone who cares about the future of journalism must see this extraordinary movie.

— Steve Engleberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica

18 May, 2017

Very compelling; a great story well told.

— Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., Publisher, The New York Times

18 May, 2017

Inspiring

— Gay Talese, author and journalist

‘Dateline-Saigon’ NYC Premiere Inspires Reflection on Journalism and Democracy

ProPublica and the Committee to Protect Journalists, along with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, teamed up to present the documentary “Dateline-Saigon.” Watch the video discussions at www.propublica.org...

05 May, 2017

The greatest reporter of our time, and why we should never forget him

When he died, exactly 10 years ago in a freak car accident, David Halberstam wasn’t remembered as just any other reporter. Read the article at washingtonpost.com...

29 April, 2017

ProPublica, CPJ Host ‘Dateline-Saigon’ Screening & Talk on Holding Government Accountable

...exploring its lessons on the importance of an independent press in preserving democracy, particularly in the face of government officials who seek to suppress information. With contemporary attacks on the press from the White House, and officials who embrace “alternative facts,” these lessons remain chillingly relevant and crucial today.

07 April, 2017

Fighting for Freedom of Speech: DATELINE-SAIGON

When creating this film, I felt a responsibility to all five journalists to tell the story as truthfully as I could. These men risked their lives to report the facts so I do feel a responsibility to gather all of the evidence. Read the interview at salemfilmfest.com...

05 March, 2017

21 September, 2016

“Dateline-Saigon” is superb!

— Tom Johnson, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times and president of CNN.

21 September, 2016

“Dateline-Saigon” brings us back to an era when journalists pursued a noble mission and what they reported mattered. Its five heroes shaped history and elevated their craft. I hope this terrific film can inspire us today to restore that sense of calling and honesty, both to journalism and to our society.

— Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs; Benjamin Franklin: An American Life; and Kissinger: A Biography; former editor of Time magazine and president of CNN.

31 May, 2016

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

31 May, 2016

Very moving. A great tribute to the journalists who first put the Vietnam War on the front page of American newspapers. They were an inspiration to the rest of us who followed them into the paddies and jungles of Vietnam to report on the war. They were my heroes and have now become the stuff of legends. An important documentary of an important era of journalism. Five stars.

— Don North, former ABC correspondent and a senior producer of the award-winning documentary, “The Ten Thousand Day War”

31 May, 2016

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

31 May, 2016

America's descent into full-scale war in Vietnam remains a puzzle. Dateline-Saigon — at once riveting and sobering — moves us closer to an answer.

— Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard University

31 May, 2016

A compelling tale of young reporters telling truth to power in a bygone era of journalism in the dawn of America's ill-conceived military interventions overseas.

— HDS Greenway, Washington Post Saigon reporter and author of Foreign Correspondent, a Memoir

31 May, 2016

Dateline-Saigon produced a wave of sad nostalgia for a war and a time when America lost its innocence and later a conflict in which it had only marginal national interest. It was a time though when young journalists learned to cover a different kind of war, and became the educational tool for informing the American people about the realities of what was happening in Vietnam.

— Marvin Kalb, award-winning correspondent for CBS and NBC News

31 May, 2016

The best film about journalism in Vietnam I’ve ever seen.

— Bob Schieffer, former anchor of CBS Evening News and moderator of Face the Nation

31 May, 2016

One of the finest films ever made about contemporary journalism. It shows how a handful of brave re-porters brought truth about the Vietnam War to Americans, despite every effort by our government to stop them. A moving tribute to the power of the press and the ability of journalists to resist the dictates of power.

— Stephen Kinzer award-winning author of The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War; former New York Times and Boston Globe correspondent

31 May, 2016

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

31 May, 2016

A splendid account of the remarkable group of reporters who went to Vietnam at the dawn of America’s military involvement and told the story as they saw it—to remarkable and lasting effect. If it’s true that journalism is the first rough draft of history, theirs is a collective effort that endures. A wonderfully absorbing film.

— Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam, Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

From Milwaukee to Saigon

Cream City native Tom Herman's latest movie, Dateline-Saigon, is receiving rare reviews. Read the interview by Martin Hintz for Milwaukee's Lifestyle Magazine here: Milwaukee's Lifestyle Magazine...

15 January, 2016

NPR/Here & Now Interview: Fighting To Get The Story Out In ‘Dateline–Saigon’

Tom Herman, producer and director of Dateline-Saigon, speaks with Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan. Listen to the interview and read more interview highlights at www.wbur.org/hereandnow...

30 November, 2015

Reporting from Saigon

Maybe there’s hope for journalism yet. Thomas Herman’s new documentary, “Dateline-Saigon,”, takes a look at controversial, groundbreaking coverage of the first phase of the Vietnam War, from 1961 to 1964. Read the interview at www.bostonglobe.com...

14 November, 2015

Shorenstein Center Screens Documentary ‘Dateline-Saigon’

The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy hosted a screening of the film Dateline-Saigon, an account of the freedom of access journalists had during the Vietnam War and the conflicts that resulted. For more information: www.thecrimson.com...

27 October, 2015