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The Killing Fields

Where:

🇰🇭 Cambodia

When:

The 1970s

Here, only the silent survive. — 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.

Released in 1984 — 142 minutes

Genres:

Drama History War

Languages:

English French Russian Khmer