TY - GEN AU - Roland Joffé AU - Sam Waterston AU - Haing S Ngor AU - John Malkovich AU - Julian Sands AU - Craig T Nelson AU - Spalding Gray AU - Bill Paterson AU - Athol Fugard AU - Graham Kennedy AU - Katherine Krapum Chey AU - Oliver Pierpaoli AU - Edward Entero Chey AU - Tom Bird AU - Monirak Sisowath AU - Lambool Dtangpaibool TI - The Killing Fields AV - DVD 004173 PY - 1984/// CY - UK PB - Enigma (First Casualty) Ltd. KW - Drama KW - History KW - War N1 - He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger... This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live. N2 - An American citizen is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" ethnic cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.; Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in UR - http://imdb.com/title/tt0087553 ER -