John Pilger Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

“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...