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Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Name: Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1979-10-30
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 7.8
Cast: John Pilger

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Documentary

7.8/10(7 ratings)

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.

10-30-1979

52 min

Main Cast

John Pilger

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John Richard Pilger was an Emmy Award winning Australian journalist based in London. Pilger lived in the United Kingdom from 1962. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger was a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger also criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print media, he had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and wrote a fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine. Pilger twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, in 1967 and 1979. His documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide. He also received several honorary doctorates, and was a visiting professor at Cornell University.

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Production Info

Writer:: John Pilger

Key Crew

Author:: John Pilger

Locations and Languages

Country:: US

Languages:: en