The Killing Fields

Released Year: 1984

Certificate: UA

Runtime: 141 minutes

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 76

Director: Roland Joffé

Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands

No of Votes: 51585

Gross: 34700291

Overview: A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

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