Roland Joffé

Winner of three Oscars and nominated for Best Picture at the 1985 Academy Awards, this historical drama follows a journalist trapped in Cambodia during the tyrant Pol Pot's 'Year Zero' genocide campaign.

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.