Killing field (disambiguation)
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A killing field
, in military science, is a field of fire in front of a defensive position.
Killing Field(s) or The Killing Field(s) may also refer to:
In music:
Killing field
A killing field, in military science, is an area in front of a defensive position that the enemy must cross during an assault and is specifically intended to allow the defending troops to incapacitate a large number of the enemy. Defensive emplacements such as anti-tank obstacles, barbed wire and...
, in military science, is a field of fire in front of a defensive position.
Killing Field(s) or The Killing Field(s) may also refer to:
- The Killing FieldsThe Killing FieldsThe Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War ....
, a number of sites in Cambodia where millions of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime- The Killing Fields (film)The Killing Fields (film)The Killing Fields is a 1984 British drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. The film, which won three Academy Awards, was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Sam Waterston as...
, a 1984 film concerning the Cambodian Killing Fields - The Killing Fields (album)The Killing Fields (album)The Killing Fields is the 10th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984. It was the soundtrack album for the film of the same name and it is the only full score written by Oldfield...
, a soundtrack album from the film, by Mike Oldfield - The Killing Fields: The Facts Behind the Film (originally The Death and Life of Dith Pran), a book by Sydney SchanbergSydney SchanbergSydney Hillel Schanberg is an American journalist who is best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia.-Life:Schanberg joined The New York Times as a journalist in 1959. He spent much of the early 1970s in Southeast Asia as a correspondent for the Times...
and Dith Pran, the basis for the film
- The Killing Fields (film)
- Killing vector fieldKilling vector fieldIn mathematics, a Killing vector field , named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold that preserves the metric. Killing fields are the infinitesimal generators of isometries; that is, flows generated by Killing fields are continuous isometries of the manifold...
, a vector field on a Riemannian manifold that preserves the metric, in mathematics - Sri Lanka's Killing FieldsSri Lanka's Killing FieldsSri Lanka's Killing Fields was an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 June 2011...
, a controversial investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil WarSri Lankan civil warThe Sri Lankan Civil War was a conflict fought on the island of Sri Lanka. Beginning on July 23, 1983, there was an on-and-off insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , a separatist militant organization which fought to create an independent Tamil state named Tamil...
broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4Channel 4Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
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In music:
- Killing Fields (album)Killing Fields (album)Killing Fields is an album by the American production triplet called the Molemen. The album boasts a wide variety of guests from New York as well as the midwest.-Track listing:# "Intro"#* Performed by DJ Presyce#* Produced by DJ Presyce...
, by the Molemen - "The Killing Field", a song by The Pillows from Living FieldLiving FieldLiving Field is an album released by The Pillows on March 24, 1995. The record builds on the alternative rock/Jazz mix of its predecessor Kool Spice.-Track listing:# "Angel Fish" – 4:07# "Sunday" – 3:15# "Daydream Wonder" – 3:28...
- "The Killing Fields", a song by Insane Clown PosseInsane Clown PosseInsane Clown Posse is an American hip hop duo from Detroit, Michigan. The group is composed of Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler, who perform under the respective personas of the "wicked clowns" Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope. Insane Clown Posse performs a style of hardcore hip hop known as horrorcore...
from Riddle Box - "Killing Fields", a song by SlayerSlayerSlayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
from Divine InterventionDivine Intervention (album)Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on September 27, 1994 through American Recordings, it was their first album featuring Paul Bostaph, replacing the band's original drummer Dave Lombardo. Several of the songs on the album were inspired by...