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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 and directed by Roland Joffe. 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.