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