The Killing Fields is based on the true story of New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg and his Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia during the Vietnam conflict. The movie spans several years, with the majority of the film focused on trying to get his partner/friend/translator Dith Pran out of the communist-run country. There were some moments of nail-biting tension, some emotive scenes and arresting images, and some powerful performances. And that was about it. The music was so awesomely inappropriate that it almost undermined the entire movie. The film was magnificently overlong and terribly paced. Pretty much half the scenes served absolutely no purpose. And I didn't come out of the movie thinking I learned anything because it was so narrowly-envisioned; it wasn't anything but its own specific story. Still, if you are interested, it might be worth checking out; maybe you'll get more out of it than I did.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0087553/