Great Crimes and Trials (1996): S03E24 – Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia

Introduction Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) is a 1993-1996 BBC documentary television series and 2011 by Investigation Discovery. Outline The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1,000,000 people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist…

Andrew Marshall

09/08/2023

1–2 minutes

History, Military Documentary, War Crimes

Introduction

Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) is a 1993-1996 BBC documentary television series and 2011 by Investigation Discovery.

Outline

The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where collectively more than 1,000,000 people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime (the Communist Party of Kampuchea) during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970–1975). The mass killings were part of a broad state-sponsored genocide (the Cambodian genocide).

Great Crimes and Trials Series

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Production & Filming Details

Release Date: 1996.
Running time: 30 minutes.
Rating: Unknown.
Country: UK.
Language: English.