John Pilger Movies

  • 1999
    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

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    Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery,...

    Welcome to Australia
  • 1979
    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

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    John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and...

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
  • 1983
    The Truth Game

    The Truth Game

    The Truth Game

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

    The Truth Game
  • 1989
    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

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

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
  • 1970
    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

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    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...

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems
  • 1976
    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

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

    Pilger in Australia
  • 1989
    Cambodia: Year Ten

    Cambodia: Year Ten

    Cambodia: Year Ten

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

    Cambodia: Year Ten
  • 1990
    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    Cambodia: The Betrayal

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

    Cambodia: The Betrayal
  • 2003
    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

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

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
  • 1975
    To Know Us Is To Love Us

    To Know Us Is To Love Us

    To Know Us Is To Love Us

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    John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community in...

    To Know Us Is To Love Us
  • 2001
    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

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    The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a...

    The New Rulers of the World
  • 1978
    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

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    Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

    Do You Remember Vietnam
  • 1998
    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

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

    Apartheid Did Not Die
  • 1977
    A Faraway Country

    A Faraway Country

    A Faraway Country

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

    A Faraway Country
  • 1975
    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

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

    An Unfashionable Tragedy
  • 1976
    Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

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

    Street of Joy
  • 1977
    Dismantling a Dream

    Dismantling a Dream

    Dismantling a Dream

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

    Dismantling a Dream
  • 1999
    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

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

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
  • 1997
    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

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    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...

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
  • 1975
    Smashing Kids

    Smashing Kids

    Smashing Kids

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    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...

    Smashing Kids