The Killing Fields

Evacuating from the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodian Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor), colleague Schanberg (Sam Waterston) helping, races to get his family to the choppers, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

Journalists Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and Rockoff (John Malkovich) witness a Phnom Penh bombing, interpreter Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) arriving, and an army officer (Craig T. Nelson) interfering, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

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Journalists Schanberg (Sam Waterston), Rockoff (John Malkovich) and Swain (Julian Sands) scramble to prevent Cambodian colleague Dith Pran (Haing S. Ngor) being ejected from the French embassy, in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, 1984.

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The true story of how a Cambodian interpreter (Haing S. Ngor) to an American journalist fought to survive the country's brutal Communist dictatorship.