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