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Filmography of Dith Pran

Known as: Private individual

1 title in the archive · first depicted 1973

Lived1942 – 2008

Cambodian photojournalist who survived the Khmer Rouge labour camps and coined the phrase "the killing fields".

Shelfmark Vita CCLX

1
title
1 film
4.0/5
average rating
across 1 rated title
2h 22m
on screen
across 1 title

3 years of a 66 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Dith Pran’s lifetime (1942 – 2008) — 4.5% of it.

Depicted in

197319751979

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Fall of Phnom Penhpull it on the timeline

Event

The Khmer Rouge capture of the Cambodian capital in April 1975, concluding the Cambodian Civil War and resulting in a forced exodus of virtually its entire population.

filed under 1975

Runs throughCold War

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Dith Pran cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$14.4 million
in budgets
over 1 film with both sums
$34.7 million
at the box office
over 1 film with both sums
2.4×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
The Killing Fields$14,400,000$34,700,291

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 1 film of the 1 portraying them carries either sum.