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Angkor, the Lost City
1961
12 min
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A pictorial essay on the ruins of the ancient city of Angkor. The greatest assembly of sculpture the world has ever known--a whole metropolis of palaces and temples, recovered from the jungle. Six hundred monuments, picture-tapestries in stone, and Angkor-Vat, a mile-square temple of grey sandstone, reveal the glories of the Khmers, ancestors of today's Cambodians.
A pictorial essay on the ruins of the ancient city of Angkor. The greatest assembly of sculpture the world has ever known--a whole metropolis of palaces and temples, recovered from the jungle. Six hundred monuments, picture-tapestries in stone, and Angkor-Vat, a mile-square temple of grey sandstone, reveal the glories of the Khmers, ancestors of today's Cambodians.
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directorRoger BlaisMorten Parker
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executive producerNicholas Balla
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commentaryNoel Stone
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photographyDonald WilderRoger MorideRoy Nolan
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sound editingKarl DuplessisJoan Edward
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re-recordingGeorge Croll
Ages 14 to 15
School subjects
Screening this film provides an excellent opportunity to contrast the Angkor Empire and another major empire in history, the Roman Empire. You can ask students to conduct research into the factors that led to the fall of each empire, so as to find points of comparison and, perhaps, make them realize that the errors of the past are not always taken into consideration.