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List of DK Films mCÄmNÐlÉkßrkm<úCa FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES Compiled by Youk Chhang, Vanthan P. Dara, Fatily Sa, Khavan Sok and Nean Yin Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University and Documentation Center of Cambodia Assisted by Aditi Malik Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, Newark RGC: Royal Government of Cambodia TVK: Television Kampuchea, Cambodia DC-Cam: Documentation Center of Cambodia FPD: Film Production Department of the Ministry of Culture CSD: Center for Social Development KID: The Khmer Institute of Democracy UPDATED October 29, 2015 Short Clip Note/ No. Title Producer Language Year Length Category Description DVD/TAPE NTSC/PAL Miscellaneous Fiction/ 1 Remembrance TVK Archives Khmer 1988 144 min. 0:56:06-0:58:14 Tape Documentary 0:13:51-0:17:51 Informational IMI (International An informational video on the 2 English 1998 5.5 min. Documentary 0:02:49-0:04:22 5 Tapes Video Monitor Institute) International Monitor Institute (IMI) Documentation Center of Cambodia Searching for the Truth: Memory & Justice EsVgrkKrBit edIm, IK rcg©M nig yutþiFm‘’ 66 Preah Sihanouk Blvd. P.O.Box 1110 Phnom Penh Cambodia t (855-23) 211-875 f (855-23) 210-358 [email protected] www.dccam.org a non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan organization that states that its mission is to acquire and preserve the visual records of human rights abuse. This video was shot by FUNCINPEC "extremists" and was seized by the Royal Cambodian armed forces during its fight with the Khmer Rouge in Phnom Penh on July 5-6 1997 Ministry of 87.17 July 5 and 6, 1997. The film puts 3 Khmer 1997 Documentary 0:29:32-0:32:28 Tape event Information min. forward the claim that Prince Nodoram Ranaridh was supporting Khmer Rouge soldiers against Prime Minister Hun Sen. Khmer Rouge cadres are interviewed in the film as well. The film opens with a prayer ceremony in honor of those who died during the Khmer Rouge regime. Interviews with the people of Interview with Unknow 53.59 Takeo who survived the regime is 4 Apsara TV 11 Khmer Documentary 0:17:49-0:22:18 Tape people in Takeo n min. the main focus of the film. There are a number of questions related to Pol Pot that are answered as number of questions related to Pol Pot that are well. CAMC was created in June 1992 to detect and clear land from Mines in Cambodia. CMAC has been CMAC-Saving funded by various countries Lives and CMAC (Cambodia such as Japan, Sweden and Germany, 12.33 5 Helping Mine Action English 1999 Documentary and has played such a 0:00:53-0:03:12 Tape min. Cambodia Center) crucial role in the demining process Development that deaths due to mines have Dropped from 600/month in 1992 and 1993 to 60/ month in 1999. FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES 2 Unlike most other documentaries that look at the ideology of the Khmer Rouge and the role of Pol Pot in establishing the same, this film sheds light on the role of the international community in allowing the Khmer Rouge to exist and carry out atrocities. As a U.S. member of Congress interviewed in the film states, the Khmer Rouge was a tool which served the purposes of the Anne Zero, U.S. in keeping the Vietnamese out Cambodia 53.24 6 USA French 1979-80 Documentary of Cambodia. However, thereafter, 0:02:17-0:07:25 Tape Annees Zero, min. the international community was Cambodge answerable to explain why this "monster" was allowed to persist. Cambodian officials interviewed in the film concede that the Vietnamese did not invade Cambodia but liberated the nation from the Khmer Rouge. The role played by the international community during the Khmer Rouge regime is critically examined. A mock war crimes tribunal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. His 0:09:40-0:22:03 crimes in Kuwait, acts of aggression and war crimes are discussed and presented by prosecutors and ABA (America Bar Mock War defended by the defence. This Association) Crimes Tribunal international tribunal is presented as 7 Section of English 1992 143 min. Documentary 0:01:25-0:04:49 Tape of Saddam being necessary because International Law Hussein-Vol. 1 the crimes of Saddam Hussein are and Practice. beyond the "scope of a national tribunal," because it will serve as a deterrence for such crimes to be Committed in the future, and that it validates an international code of FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES 3 conduct that is difficult to uphold. Continuation of 7(1) and 7(2) with a ABA (America Bar particular focus on the impact on the Mock War Association) environment of Saddam Hussein's Crimes Tribunal 0:23:40-0:26:41 8 Section of English 1991 49 min. Documentary actions such as releasing oil into the Tape of Saddam (NTSC) International Law water and ocean surrounding Iraq. Hussein-Vol. 2 and Practice Iraq. This film presents a brief introduction into the work done by Parution d’ une the Documentation Center of revue sur les Cambodia (DC-CAM). 0:00:37-0:02:26 9 documentations TVK Archives French 2001 2.56 min. Documentary Tape Documentation of Khmer Rouge (PAL) des Khmer crimes, and the DC-CAM magazine Rouges are discussed. Youth Yan was a high school student in Battambang when the Khmer Rouge came to power in 1975. He spent a year in a Khmer Rouge concentration camp, where he was beaten and made to carry out forced labor. Yan's youngest brother was shot to death by Khmer Rouge Interview soldiers. A part of the Khmer was Khmer Oral Archives Project, carried out by the conducte 91.12 0:45:47-0:49:51 10 History “Youth Unknown English Documentary Minnesota Project-- International Tape d in min. (NTSC) Yan” Lawyers Committee, this interview August was recorded in 1992. Youth Yan 1992 speaks about the period from 1975 to the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. In 1979, Yan crossed the border and entered a refugee camp in Thailand. He moved from camp to camp for a few years, before coming to the United States, where he was eventually recognized as a FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES 4 refugee, and finally received American citizenship. At the time that this interview was recorded, Yan was working as a paralegal in St. Paul, Minnesota, and his mother, two sisters and brother were still in a refugee camp in Thailand, who he was hoping to bring to the United States in the near future. This film is a documentary on the French colonization of Cambodia Le Secret d’ Claudine 54.50 various French explorers of the time, 0:27:16-0:29:48 11 French 1996 Documentary 2 Tapes Angkor Chassugneux min. and their explorations of the (PAL) nation, and the Angkor Wat temples. This piece of investigative journalism looks into the geopolitical forces that put the Khmer Rouge back onto the table in the run up to UN-supervised "free and fair elections" in the 1990s. Pol Pot's second in command is treated with respect by the United States and its allies, and is addressed as his Excellency. The Khmer Rouge have a palpable presence in the nation, and it is estimated that Documentary: Unknow 52.24 12 John Pilger English Documentary after the UN arrival in Cambodia, 0:03:45-0:09:37 Tape Below Zero n min. the areas controlled by the Khmer Rouge in the nation have more than doubled. After being allowed to contest elections, the Khmer Rouge have refused to cooperate with UNTAC (United Nations transitional Committee in Cambodia). The role of Britain and China in training allies of Pol Pot is also investigated. Since the making of this film, Pilger states that the FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES 5 Khmer Rouge have given up any pretence of cooperating the UN, or in other words, have taken it upon themselves to disrupt the forthcoming elections. They killed over 100 people in the span of one month including a few UN officials as well. A former Khmer Rouge soldier remembers her time in a forced labor camp and the kind of treatment that was meted out to workers in the camp. All the events Documentary 13 Unforgettable TVK Archives Khmer 1998 20 min. of the camp are part of a dream 0:06:08-0:09:19 Tape /Drama sequence of the woman many years later as she remembers these atrocities while asleep and is unable to forget the horrors of her past. A journalistic report on the state of Cambodian democracy, this film opens with the report of the March 30, 1997 attack on pro-democracy activists in Cambodia. 16 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when four grenades were tossed by Cambodian unknown assailants into the crowd 46.59 14 Sunday Cover Sunday News English 1997 Documentary of activist. The report then 0:01:23-0:12:22 Tape min. Story goes on to investigate the contradictions in Cambodia's political system such as the connections between the FUNCINPEC and the Khmer Rouge, the fact that Ieng Sary, former foreign minister of the Khmer Rouge has been granted an amnesty and has turned into a FILMS RELATED TO THE KHMER ROUGE REGIME & ROYAL ARCHIVES 6 millionaire, living peacefully in Pailin despite monumental evidence against him (at the Documentation Center of Cambodia) being a war criminal, and second Prime Minister Hun Sen's connections with the assailants of the March 30 attack.
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