The Killing Fields (1984)




Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: GB

Director: Roland Joffe

Duration: 142 min

Release: 1984

The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four years, until Pol Pot's regime was toppled by the intervening Vietnamese in 1979.