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Dateline: Saigon

“Lies, deception, and the dangerous search for truth”

★ 8.0(1)20171h 36m

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Dateline: Saigon is streaming on OVID in Canada. Availability checked 14 June 2026.

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Director: Thomas D. Herman
Release date: 2017-03-07
Runtime: 1h 36m
Language: English
Status: Released
Country: Germany
Studio: Northern Light Productions

About Dateline: Saigon

Dateline: Saigon is a 2017 movie in the Documentary and History genres, directed by Thomas D. Herman, starring Sam Waterston, Neil Sheehan and Peter Arnett. It has a runtime of 1 hour 36 minutes. It holds an average rating of 8.0/10 from 1 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Dateline: Saigon in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

Synopsis

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.'