Tuol Sleng and the Cambodian Genocide: Films and Film Sources

Dith Pran is an aide, translator and friend of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg who is covering the war in Cambodia. He is eventually exiled to the labor camps in Cambodia's countryside, where he endures four years of starvation, torture and war before escaping to Thailand.

45 min. Documentary tracing the history and circumstances of the rise, fall, and re-emergence of the Khmer Rouge as a military and political power in Cambodia.

101 min. In Khmer with English subtitles. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia confronts his captors at the notorious detention center code-named S21, where 16,000 men, women, and children were tortured and killed, their "crimes" meticulously documented to justify their execution.

""Sixteen years old at the time, Nhem En was a photographer at the notorious Tuol Sleng Prison, also know[n] as S-21, where 17,000 people were tortured and killed from 1975 to 1979. The photos he took are an extraordinary document of madness and cruelty. Only eight people are know to have walked out of S-21 alive. Three of them tell their remarkable stories of survival"

103 min. Comrade Duch was director of M13 and S-21 (Tuol Sleng) and oversaw the torture and death of thousands of people. "Panh films an incredible and horrifying in-depth interview with Duch, who cndidly talks about his ascension in the khmer Rouge party and his involvement in the mass murder of his fellow Cambodians."

96 min. Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.

Prize-winning animated film. Chou is a young woman whose everyday world is suddenly upended by the arrival of the Khmer Rouge regime. During the chaos of the forced exile from their home, Chou and her husband are separated from their four-year-old son, who has been sent to an unknown location. As she navigates her new reality, working in the fields day and night under the careful watch of soldiers, Chou remains steadfast in her determination to reunite her family, even if it means risking everything. Based on filmmaker's family history.

The men and women who perpetrated the Cambodian killing fields massacres... break a 30-year silence to give testimony never before heard or seen. Unprecedented access from top to bottom of the Khmer Rouge has been achieved through a decade of work by one of Cambodia's top investigative journalists, Thet Sambath