Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to Angkor(2006)

Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to Angkor Synopsis

One of the mythic journeys of our time, through the exquisite, complicated, surprising terrain of Vietnam and Cambodia to the great ruins at Angkor - the magnificent Khmer temples being painstakingly restored deep in the Cambodian jungle. It is a high definition odyssey up a river far distanced in time from the corridor into the heart of darkness portrayed in Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now." In Angkor, the World Monuments Fund's John Stubbs and John Sanday describe their 15-year restoration of one of the jewels of a city called "the eighth wonder of the world." As we go inside the 12th Century temple complex of Preah Khan, along with the other major sites of Angkor Wat, Bayon and Banteay Srei, we learn that the story of their work in Angkor is not only a story of the rebirth of Angkor after the horrors of the Khmer Rouge Era, but it also is a story of the rebirth of Cambodia.

Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to Angkor (2006) is a documentary film directed by Les Guthman, released on April 10, 2006 with a runtime of 1h 14m. It stars Les Guthman, Simone Kaufmann, John Sanday and John Stubbs.