Title: The Killing Fields

Format: DVD

Label: Warner Archives

Genre: Biography, Drama

UPC: 888574446215

Release Date: 2016

The Killing Fields is an epic story of friendship and survival produced by David Puttnam (Chariots of Fire) and directed by Roland Joffé (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 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.