John Pilger Movies

John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is Dying, he reports on the demise in the...

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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...

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

“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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of...

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

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