The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...

Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the ...

Pol Pot Dancing is premiering in International Competition at the 26 th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, contending in that category with 11 other world, ...

The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, whose films have long borne witness to the country’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the ...

In Meeting With Pol Pot, he presents a fictionalized version of a 1978 visit by three foreign journalists to Cambodia, which was closed off to the world after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 ...

Panh said “Meeting With Pol Pot” is not just a film about the past, but a call for reflection on our humanity.” The filmmaker said he aspired “to give voice to those who have suffered and ...

Nate Thayer asked Pol Pot, referring to the Khmer Rouge genocide in the 1970s that claimed an estimated 1.7 million lives. The answer was evasive. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

The latest film releases include Elio, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot, and Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers. Weighing in are Alonso Duralde and Dave White, film critics and co-hosts of the movie ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks implied that Tesla CEO Elon Musk may belong on a list of history's greatest murderers ...

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare By Phillip Short Henry Holt, 560 pp. $30 ...