The Killing Fields

Genres
War Drama History
Release Date/Year
1984
Casts
John Malkovich Julian Sands Sam Waterston
Point of View
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Description

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 lead 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.