Independent Lens

Season 9, Episode 23

Episode Title: The Cool School

Air Date: 2008-06-10

Overview:

This film follows one woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide. Socheata Poeuv's family survived the Killing Fields, escaped across the border and became Americans. She searches for the truth about what her family escaped from and why her history has been buried in secrecy for so long.