John Pilger Movies

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.

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

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into...

“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,...

Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in...

The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are the subject of An Unjustifiable Risk, made in...

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...

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

1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.

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

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

Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway...