Enemies of the People

Nearly two million people were killed by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. The reason remains largely unexplained until now.

In one of the most harrowing and compelling personal documentaries of our time, multi award winning and Academy Award shortlisted film, Enemies of the People, exposes for the first time the truth behind Cambodia’s genocide.

Journalist, Thet Sambath, has spent a decade gaining the trust of those who perpetrated the massacres from the foot soldiers to Pol Pot’s right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two. Sambath patiently records shocking testimony never before seen or heard and at no time compromises his mission on account of the loss of his own family in the Killing Fields.

Co-directors Lemkin and Sambath reveal the truth that has never been heard and seen in an investigative journalism of the higher order. Enemies of the People is a profound meditation on the nature of good and evil, shedding light on the capacity of some people to do terrible things and for others to forgive them.

This is a watershed account of Cambodian history and a heartfelt quest for closure on one of the world’s darkest episodes.