7 Films & TV Shows Set In Cambodia During The 1970s
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Funan
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sCambodia, April 1975 — Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…
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The Missing Picture
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sRithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
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The Road to Freedom
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sAbout two Photo Journalists that risk their lives by going into a War torn Cambodia in an effort to bring the worlds attention to this region.
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Enemies of the People
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sThe Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot's right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking testimony never before seen or heard. Having neglected his own family for years, Sambath's work comes at a price. But his is a personal mission. He lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields. Amidst his journey to discover why his family died, we come to understand for the first time the real story of Cambodia's tragedy.
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21 and a Wake-Up
🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970s The 1960sA story of Vietnam. — "I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in the waning days of the war, is based on events that he experienced and heard about." - Roger Ebert
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sDocumentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
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The Killing Fields
🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970sHere, 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.
