First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

[Netflix Only] After a Khmer Rouge forces everyone to leave Phnom Penh claiming that the U.S. will bomb the city in 1975 in this gut-wrenching, harrowing, horrific, factually based, powerful, well-acted, violent, 136-minuter Angelina Jolie film based on Loung Ung's memoir and filled with striking cinematography, a young girl (Sareum Srey Moch), her parents (Phoeung Kompheak and Sveng Socheata), and her siblings end up living in poverty in the countryside under the thumb of and constant threat from soldiers.
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