The Killing Fields 254th greatest film

Directed by Roland Joffé | R | 141 min | 1984 | Drama, History, War |

Starring Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich, Julian Sands

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.

This film is ranked on the following lists

• 100th on Top 100 British films by British Film Institute

• BAFTA Award for Best Film by British Academy of Film and Television Arts

• Best Picture by Boston Society of Film Critics