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The Velveteen Ocelot

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3. I had it on videocassette

Reply to Stuart G (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:08 PM

Mar 2017

but I found it hard to watch because it was so disturbing (I can't watch it at all any more because I don't have an operating VCR). Still, it's a terrific film and very much worth seeing.

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Don't ever think that the Holocaust can't happen again...It already has. In Cambodia.. [View all] Stuart G Mar 2017 OP

The movie about the Khmer Rouge is called "The Killing Fields." The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #1

Thank You for posting that..I have not seen it. Stuart G Mar 2017 #2

I had it on videocassette The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2017 #3

Phew. Powerful film. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #13

I Met Dith Pran At A Luncheon A Few Years After The Movie... JimGinPA Mar 2017 #4

Haing S. Ngor (the actor who starred in that film as Dith Pran) was murdered tblue37 Mar 2017 #15

The worst part about the Killing Fields... Archae Mar 2017 #5

I wonder about why we don't know or outright ignore ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #6

You hit it !!..Stalin killed 20 million, 10 million, more, less.? Stuart G Mar 2017 #7

I've heard up to 30 million ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #9

I'm bothered by what we did to the Native Americans madokie Mar 2017 #8

Point taken ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #10

I was thinking the same thing.. Stuart G Mar 2017 #11

I think the film record of the concentration camps and the fact that Germany was a "civilized" tblue37 Mar 2017 #14

Rwanda was another genocidal massacre--800,000 ethnic Tsutis, tblue37 Mar 2017 #12

Yeah, I was going to mention Rwanda as well. Warren DeMontague Mar 2017 #16

Thank you ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #17

My best friend's parents escaped from there NickB79 Mar 2017 #18