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Cambodia is a lowland Southeast Asian country of rice plains, great lake waters and forested temple zones. The Khmer Rouge seizure of power in 1975 emptied cities and caused mass death, which is why many stories here confront loss, testimony and rebuilding. The Killing Fields and First They Killed My Father sit on its shelf. Open Cambodia on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
Open Cambodia on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Cambodia
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Browse 21 books, 28 movies and 2 games set in Cambodia.
Apocalypse Now
At the height of the Vietnam war Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that officially "does not exist nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel…
The Killing Fields
The real-life story of a friendship between two journalists an American and a Cambodian during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975 which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four…
First They Killed My Father
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Two Brothers
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
In the Life of Music
An intergenerational tale that explores love war and a family’s relationship to ‘Champa Battambang’ made famous by Sinn Sisamouth "The King of Cambodian Music". Exploring three different decades it depicts the lives of…
Trained To Kill
From the fields of Cambodia to the mean streets of L.A. there's no escaping death and it's blinding revenge.
The Missing Picture
Rithy Panh uses clay figures archival footage and his narration to recreate the atrocities Cambodia's Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979.
Ohio
One sweltering night in 2013, four former high school classmates converge on their hometown in northeastern Ohio.There’s Bill Ashcraft, a passionate, drug-abusing young activist whose flailing ambitions have taken him…
S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine
Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.
Funan
Cambodia once the ancient kingdom of Funan April 17th 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned the population is thrown to the roads and…
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