DATELINE SAIGON is a superb documentary about four American journalists caught up in the early stages of the war in Vietnam. Malcolm Brown, Peter Arnett, and Horst Faas of the Associated Press, Neil Sheehan of United Press International and David Halberstam of the New York Times are competitors who become allies as the powers-that-be in Washington come to think of them as the enemy, because they won't swallow the blue-skies-forever falsehoods and inaccuracies presented by both the military and the civilians in the US government at the time. The story is historically truthful and fascinating. Especially when you compare and contrast the lies and falsehoods that have been foisted upon the citizens of America in the recent past. This is compelling and emotionally impactful filmmaking. See it.
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