The film was awarded the "Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary" at the 2011 United Nations Association Film Festival,[3] and Dunlop received a 2011 News & Documentary Emmy Award nomination for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Writing" for his writing.
[2] Dunlop co-authored War of the Mines (1994) with Paul Davies, about the devastation caused by landmines.
His book The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge (Bloomsbury, UK 2005; Walkerbooks, US 2006) was the result of a research supported by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Comrade Duch, the former head of Democratic Kampuchea's dreaded special branch: the Santebal.
Dunlop received an award from the Johns Hopkins University for Excellence in International Journalism for exposing Duch.