John Pilger Movies

“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,...

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

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

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

Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the...

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

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

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

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

In the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s policy...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community 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...

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

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...

This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own...

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

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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