The Killing Fields tells 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.
Genre: Drama, History, War
Starring: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Athol Fugard
Directed & Produced by: Iain Smith, Juliet Taylor, Susie Figgis, Marion Dougherty, Roy Walker
Release date: 11/2/1984
Running time: 142 minutes
IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 by 353 users