Resources



Southeast Asia Films

  • Uncle Boonmee - Award-winning Thai film

Films can be searched in the Libraries catalog, using country name as a keyword, and terms such as: Documentary films, Nonfiction films, Biographical films, Feature films. Below is just a selection of Southeast Asia feature films and documentaries available for checkout at the Odegaard Media Center.

  • The Killing Fields - American film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia

  • Tirador - Award-winning film from the Philippines

  • Objective Burma - 1945 American war film about Burma

  • The scent of green papaya - Vietnamese film set in 1950s and 1960s Saigon

  • Indochine - French film about colonial Vietnam, set in the 1930s

  • Hearts and Minds - American documentary about the Vietnam War from the 1970s

  • Squatterpunk - 2007 documentary shows the squalid life of poor children in the slums of Manila

  • Burma VJ - Documentary about citizen protest and clandestine video recording in Burma, published in 2009

  • The Most Secret Place on Earth - Documentary about the CIA's covert war in Laos

  • The Last Communist - Documentary inspired by the early life and legacy of Chin Peng (Ong Boon Hua), exiled leader of the banned Communist Party of Malaysia

  • Ram Thai - Art documentary about the dance art of Thailand

  • Cowboys in Paradise - Documentary about the sex tourism trade in Bali

  • Forest mountain voices - Documentary film made by indigenous peoples depicting the social and economic issues of indigenous peoples in Cambodia

  • Globalization in the Philippines - Two short documentaries about agricultural practices in the Philippines related to sugar and pineapple crops