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In 1970s Cambodia almost two million people were murdered without any concrete explanation. This documentary details one journalist's personal quest to find out why. Thet Sambath carefully investigates the Killing Field massacres, losing an entire decade of his personal life in the process. During this time, he acquires the trust of many of those responsible for the slaughter, and he records their accounts of the tragedies. Having lost his parents and siblings to the Killing Fields as a young man, his obsession with uncovering why his family was taken from him leads us to a larger understanding of what happened.

Enemies of the People is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 34 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.8.