16 Films & TV Shows Set In Cambodia During The 20th Century
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Funan
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1970sCambodia, April 1975 โ 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 futureโฆ
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The Missing Picture
๐ฐ๐ญ 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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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Illinois District of Columbia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia Africa - General The 1960s The 2010sThe invasion we always feared. An enemy we never expected. โ The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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The Road to Freedom
๐ฐ๐ญ 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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Sergio
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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Enemies of the People
๐ฐ๐ญ 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
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1970s The 1960sA story of Vietnam. โ "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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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
Nebraska New Mexico ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica The 2000s The 1900sWhoever wins... We lose โ When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.
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Two Brothers
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1920sTwo infant tiger cubs, separated from their parents and each other. โ Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
๐ฐ๐ญ 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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In the Mood for Love
Shanghai ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1960sFeel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode. โ A melancholy story set in Hong Kong in 1962. A woman and a man who live in the same crowded apartment building discover that their husband and wife are having an affair.
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Patlabor 2: The Movie
Tokyo Prefecture Kanagawa Prefecture ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1990s The 2000sA Japanese police unit who use giant anthropomorphic robots (called Labors) is caught up in a political struggle between the civilian authorities and the military when a terrorist act is blamed on an Air Force jet. With the aid of a government agent, the team gets close to a terrorist leader to stop things from going out of control when after the military is impelled to impose martial law.
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The Mysterious City
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1950sArchaelogist prince Indra-putra and Mr. Rithy go in search of a mysterious palace in the heart of the Dangrek Mountains.
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The Killing Fields
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1970sHere, only the silent survive. โ 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.
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Apocalypse Now
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sThis is the end... โ At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
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Revolt of the Zombies
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1920sWEIRDEST LOVE STORY IN 2000 YEARS! โ The story is set in Cambodia in the years following WWI. Evil Count Mazovia (Roy D'Arcy) has come into possession of the secret methods by which men can be transformed into walking zombies and uses these unholy powers to create a race of slave laborers. An expedition is sent to the ruins of Angkor Wat, in hopes of ending Mazovia's activities once and for all. Unfortunately, Armand (Dean Jagger), one of the members of the expedition, has his own agenda.