John Pilger Movies

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which...

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written...

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

“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,...

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

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...

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...

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

How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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

The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is Dying, he reports on the demise in the...

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...

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...