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.'
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| Directing | Thomas D. Herman | Director |
| Sound | Greg McCleary | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Production | Randel Cole | Co-Producer |
| Production | Richard Chapman | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Geof Thurber | Sound Editor |
| Editing | Steven Miloszewski | Editor |
| Production | Thomas D. Herman | Producer |
| Writing | Thomas D. Herman | Writer |
| Editing | William A. Anderson | Editor |
| Production | Bestor Cram | Producer |
| Editing | Jenni Matz | Archival Footage Research |
| Sound | Michael Josephs | Music |
| Production | Amy Macd | Associate Producer |
| Production | Susan Grey | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Steve Keeny | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Mark Bakker | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Abdulkarim Sabham | Director of Photography |
| Crew | Lorie Conway | Post Production Supervisor |
| Camera | Bestor Cram | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Pepijn Aben | Sound Recordist |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Colorist |
| Production | Marianne Harris | Associate Producer |
| Camera | Randel Cole | Director of Photography |
| Editing | David Bigelow | Online Editor |
| Sound | Dominique Siemens | Sound Recordist |
