John Pilger Movies

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

John Pilger's documentary, The Dirty War on the NHS, "goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today", he says. Britain's National Health...

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

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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

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

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

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

In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top...

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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

“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,...

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...

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

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