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Killing Fields, The
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Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) / Production Year: 1984 / Region 1
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All-Time Sales Rank: 977
| Overall Rating:  3.88 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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Every so often, there isia film that isidestinedito be talked about andirememberedifor yearsito come.
When the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh in 1975, many thought the killing would end. Instead it started a long nightmare in which three million Cambodians would die in the "killing fields."
The Killing Fields is an epic story of friendship and survival produced by David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Roland Joffe (The Mission). Sam Waterston plays Sydney Schanberg, whose war coverage entraps him and other journalists. Dr. Haing S. Ngor is Dith Pran, Schanberg's aide and friend who saves them from execution. But Pran is sentenced to labor camps, enduring starvation and torture before escaping to Thailand. Ngor also endured Khmer Rouge atrocities and saw his moving, Academy Award®-winning portrayal of Pran (one of the film's three Oscars®) as a way of bringing his nation's tragic ordeal to light.
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Features:
| Feature-Length Audio Commentary by Director Roland Joffe
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Scene Access
| Video:
| | Widescreen 1.85:1 Color (Anamorphic) | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
| Subtitles:
| | English, French
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| Studio: Warner Bros.
Production Year: 1984
Release Date: 3/13/2001
Length: 141 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 47
| Includes: Audio Commentary
Packaging: Snap Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-DL
Item Code: 11419
UPC Code: 085391141921
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Overall Rating: 3.88 out of 5, including 2 reviews
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This movie was as good as it gets - 4 out of 5 (7/2/2003)
There are some viewers who think that the movie is telling falsehood. In truth, this movie is telling only a small fraction of the cruelty that inflicted upon the Cambodian people. I can say this because I was there. My sufferings under the Khmer Rouge were not an illusion. I lost over fifty members of my family - due to starvations and executions. This movie was made only five years after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge, not thirty years as one viewer has mentioned. One major fact that thi
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Astonishing story! - 3.75 out of 5 (6/24/2002)
Cambodia, I am not sure even if I have written the name right. An astonishing story happened almost 30 years ago in a remote country far away from the western civilized world that we know. Being educated in China and now living in the States, I found the story very hard to accept as truth. After all, for years my government had told us that the comunists in Cambodia are good guys. However, in this film, they are not more than cold blood killers.
But what does that name, killing field means? Mi
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