John Pilger Movies

A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.

1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.

Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

Documentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more than half of the 500,000 people remanded in custody by...

1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class...

In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing...

This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a...

“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship...

John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.

Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of...

Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods, of Liverpool, where hunger has become a way of...

“What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from whose point of view – the military,...

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving...

Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery,...

A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream. Pilger recalls the establishment of the...

An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.

Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.