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.'
Unfortunately the movie Dateline: Saigon is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Thomas D. Herman | Director |
| Crew | Lorie Conway | Post Production Supervisor |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Colorist |
| Sound | Pepijn Aben | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Amy Macd | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susan Grey | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Dominique Siemens | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Online Editor |
| Camera | Mark Bakker | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Abdulkarim Sabham | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Bestor Cram | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Steve Keeny | Director of Photography |
| Production | Marianne Harris | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Randel Cole | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Thomas D. Herman | Writer |
| Production | Randel Cole | Co-Producer |
| Production | Bestor Cram | Producer |
| Editing | Steven Miloszewski | Editor |
| Sound | Greg McCleary | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Thomas D. Herman | Producer |
| Sound | Geof Thurber | Sound Editor |
| Production | Richard Chapman | Executive Producer |
| Editing | William A. Anderson | Editor |
| Editing | Jenni Matz | Archival Footage Research |
| Sound | Michael Josephs | Music |
