John Pilger Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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

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,...