John Pilger Movies

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

“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,...

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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

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