The performing artist was talking only to the BBC before the screening of First They Killed My Father, a genuine life record of the Khmer Rouge genocide through the eyes of a tyke.
She said she trusted the film, which she coordinated, would help Cambodians to talk all the more straightforwardly about the injury of the period.
Two million individuals passed on.
Jolie, now an UN evacuee office unique agent, first went by Cambodia for the taping of 2001 hit Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
She later embraced Maddox, her most established child, from Cambodia.
"I resulted in these present circumstances nation and I went gaga for its kin and educated its history, and in doing as such realized, how little I really thought about the world," she told the BBC's Yalda Hakim.
"This nation, for me was my enlivening.
"I'll generally be exceptionally appreciative to this nation. I don't think I ever could give back as much as this nation has given me."
'Not legitimately caught on'
To start with They Killed My Father depends on a book of a similar name by Loung Ung.
Ms Ung was five when she and her family were compelled to leave their home in the capital, Phnom Penh, by the Khmer Rouge, the administration which ran the nation in the vicinity of 1975 and 1979, under Pol Pot.
It is evaluated that two million individuals, around a fourth of the populace, were either killed by the administration or kicked the bucket from starvation and exhaust.
"I suspected that this war happened 40 years back, and what happened to these individuals, was not legitimately comprehended," said Jolie.
The film is prevalently in the nearby Khmer dialect, and Jolie said that while she needed the more extensive world to better comprehend occasions in Cambodia she trusted it would have an effect locally as well.
"I trust it enables the nation to talk more," she stated, the same number of survivors "haven't recounted their kids their story".
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