The director Rithy Panh dramatizes events from 1978, when a group of outsiders was allowed to enter Cambodia under the Khmer ...

Pol Pot almost never spoke to journalists, and rarely, if ever, told the truth about his background. In the 1977 conversation, he paints a humble picture of his childhood – saying he grew up the ...

'Pol Pot Dancing,' about the Cambodian dictator's effort to wipe out Khmer classical dance, is premiering at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival.

In Meeting With Pol Pot, he presents a fictionalized version of a 1978 visit by three foreign journalists to Cambodia, which was closed off to the world after the Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975 ...

A chilling historical drama rendered with impeccable sleight of hand, Rithy Panh’s “Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot” (“Meeting With Pol Pot”) reveals its political dimensions through layers of ...

The Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, whose films have long borne witness to the country’s murderous Khmer Rouge regime of the ...

The latest film releases include Elio, The Damned, Meeting with Pol Pot, and Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers. Weighing in are Alonso Duralde and Dave White, film critics and co-hosts of the movie ...

Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare By Phillip Short Henry Holt, 560 pp. $30 ...

In Rithy Panh's 'Meeting With Pol Pot,' three French journalists are invited to interview Cambodia's dictator, in a tale of paranoia and propaganda.