John Pilger
John Richard Pilger was an Emmy Award winning Australian journalist based in London. Pilger lived in the United Kingdom from 1962. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger was a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger also criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print media, he had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and wrote a fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine. Pilger twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, in 1967 and 1979. His documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide. He also received several honorary doctorates, and was a visiting professor at Cornell University.
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
as SelfExamining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world,...
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The War on Democracy
as SelfSet both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current...
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The Coming War on China
as uncreditedThe Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't...
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The War You Don't See
as uncreditedThis film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.
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War By Other Means
as uncreditedWar By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning...
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Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
as uncreditedJohn Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer...
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Stealing a Nation
as HimselfThis tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments,...
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Utopia
as HimselfDocumentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional...
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Palestine Is Still the Issue
as Self - PresenterA documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years....
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The Dirty War on the NHS
as uncreditedJohn Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.
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The New Rulers of the World
as uncreditedThe myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking...
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Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
as Himself - PresenterThis 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23...
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
as uncreditedThe sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing...
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Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
as uncredited1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.
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Israel: After the Earthquake
as uncreditedJohn Pilger documentary from 1974.
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Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
as SelfNews on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt...
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Dismantling a Dream
as uncreditedA Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of...
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Cambodia: Year One
as uncredited1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.
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Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
as uncreditedJohn Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
as PresenterDocumentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more...
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Apartheid Did Not Die
as uncreditedAn analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.
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Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
as uncreditedBurp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop...
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Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
as uncreditedHow can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?
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Pilger in Australia
as uncredited1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.
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Do You Remember Vietnam
as uncreditedThree years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime
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Heroes
as uncredited1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.
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Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
as Himself“What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from...
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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
as uncreditedAn analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.
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An Unfashionable Tragedy
as uncreditedIn 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable...
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Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
as uncreditedA critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.
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Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
as uncreditedIn the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals...
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Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
as uncreditedAmerican defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of...
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Vietnam: Still America's War
as uncreditedJohn Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning...
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A Nod and a Wink
as uncreditedIn A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a...
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The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
as uncredited1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the...
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One British Family
as uncreditedIn the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from...
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Street of Joy
as uncreditedMadison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of...
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The Mexicans
as uncredited1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.
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The Most Powerful Politician in America
as uncreditedAlabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in...
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Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
as uncreditedAllied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for...
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Vietnam: The Last Battle
as uncreditedIn 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon,...
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To Know Us Is To Love Us
as uncreditedJohn Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us,...
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Smashing Kids
as uncreditedChildren growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the...
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Pyramid Lake Is Dying
as uncreditedThe second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake...
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The Truth Game
as uncredited1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.
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Conversations With a Working Man
as uncreditedThis film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an...
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A Faraway Country
as uncreditedShortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger...
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An Unjustifiable Risk
as uncreditedThe potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors...
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Nobody's Children
as PresenterDocumentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling...
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Cambodia: The Betrayal
as uncredited1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.
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Cambodia: Year Ten
as uncredited1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.
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Japan Behind the Mask
as uncreditedA look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.
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