John Pilger Movies

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

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

“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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...

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.