When Dr. Haing S. Ngor was forced into labor camps in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge, little did he know he would escape four years of torture and be called upon to recreate his harrowing experiences in "The Killing Fields, his first film that would earn him an Academy Award. For the Cambodian-Chinese doctor: "Nothing has shaped my life as much as surviving the Pol Pot regime. I am a survivor of the Cambodian holocaust. That's who I am." And little did anyone know that some twenty years later, Ngor would be gunned down in a Los Angeles Chinatown alley. How could it be that Ngor would survive near death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, only to be murdered by gang-bangers in America?
Directed byArthur Dong
Written byArthur Dong
CountryUSA
On screen
Haing S. Ngor