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Angkor, the Lost City

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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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.

Archaeology Developing Countries Architecture All subjects
  • director
    Roger Blais
    Morten Parker
  • executive producer
    Nicholas Balla
  • commentary
    Noel Stone
  • photography
    Donald Wilder
    Roger Moride
    Roy Nolan
  • sound editing
    Karl Duplessis
    Joan Edward
  • re-recording
    George Croll

Education

Ages 14 to 15
School subjects
History and Citizenship Education - First Occupants (to 1500)
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.

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