The Killing Fields

The Killing Fields

1984

Based on true events, this film follows New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg and his Cambodian colleague Dith Pran through the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge, and Pran's subsequent ordeal surviving the regime's killing fields. A harrowing and deeply human account of friendship, survival, and journalistic witness.

Director

  • Roland Joffé

Cast

  • Sam Waterston
  • Haing S. Ngor
  • John Malkovich
  • Bill Paterson