John Pilger

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.

  • Title: John Pilger
  • Popularity: 1.775
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1939-10-09
  • Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
  • Homepage: http://johnpilger.com/
  • Also Known As:
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John Pilger Movies

  • 2003
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    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    7.3 2003 HD

    A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this...

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  • 1980
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    The Mexicans

    The Mexicans

    1 1980 HD

    1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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  • 1978
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    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    The Truth Game

    The Truth Game

    1 1983 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    8.2 1970 HD

    In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing...

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  • 2016
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    The Coming War on China

    The Coming War on China

    6.8 2016 HD

    The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second...

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  • 2004
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    Stealing a Nation

    Stealing a Nation

    8.3 2004 HD

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

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  • 1986
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    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    1 1986 HD

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

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  • 2006
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    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

    1 2006 HD

    News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later. It was one of the boldest...

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  • 1994
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    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    6.7 1994 HD

    The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

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  • 1983
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    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

    1 1983 HD

    “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, the...

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  • 1996
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    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    7 1996 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

    1 1980 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    1 1999 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    1 1995 HD

    In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top...

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  • 1999
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    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    1 1999 HD

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

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  • 2010
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    The War You Don't See

    The War You Don't See

    7.7 2010 HD

    This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.

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  • 1992
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    War By Other Means

    War By Other Means

    1 1992 HD

    War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which...

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

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

    7.1 2003 HD

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

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  • 1994
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    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    1 1994 HD

    Britain is still a world leader. Indeed it has twenty percent of a world market, second only to the United States. And this industry is considered so...

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  • 1981
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    Heroes

    Heroes

    1 1981 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

    1 1976 HD

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

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  • 1971
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    Conversations With a Working Man

    Conversations With a Working Man

    1 1971 HD

    This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own...

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  • 1974
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    Vietnam: Still America's War

    Vietnam: Still America's War

    1 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1974
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    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    1 1974 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    1 1974 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    1 1975 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    1 1975 HD

    American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy. John Pilger says...

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  • 1975
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    Smashing Kids

    Smashing Kids

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    To Know Us Is To Love Us

    To Know Us Is To Love Us

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    A Nod and a Wink

    A Nod and a Wink

    1 1975 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    1 1976 HD

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

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  • 1976
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    Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

    1 1976 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    A Faraway Country

    A Faraway Country

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    Dismantling a Dream

    Dismantling a Dream

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    An Unjustifiable Risk

    An Unjustifiable Risk

    1 1977 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    One British Family

    One British Family

    1 1974 HD

    In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from former British colonies, race became a political...

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  • 1976
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    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

    1 1976 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Israel: After the Earthquake

    Israel: After the Earthquake

    1 1974 HD

    John Pilger documentary from 1974.

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  • 2001
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    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    6.4 2001 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Utopia

    Utopia

    5.6 2013 HD

    Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relationship with Indigenous Australians

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  • 2024
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    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

    1 2024 HD

    Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved,...

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  • 1979
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    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    7.8 1979 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    1 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1983
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    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

    6.7 1983 HD

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

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  • 1998
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    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

    6 1998 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    Nobody's Children

    Nobody's Children

    1 1975 HD

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

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  • 1974
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    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    1 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 2000
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    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    7.8 2000 HD

    An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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  • 1984
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    Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War

    Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War

    7 1984 HD

    Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the...

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  • 1993
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    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    10 1993 HD

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

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  • 1990
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    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    1 1990 HD

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

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  • 1989
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    Cambodia: Year Ten

    Cambodia: Year Ten

    1 1989 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Japan Behind the Mask

    Japan Behind the Mask

    1 1987 HD

    A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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  • 2019
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    The Dirty War on the NHS

    The Dirty War on the NHS

    10 2019 HD

    John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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  • 2007
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    The War on Democracy

    The War on Democracy

    7.5 2007 HD

    Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as...

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  • 2007
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    The War on Democracy

    The War on Democracy

    7.5 2007 HD

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  • 1992
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    War By Other Means

    War By Other Means

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2013
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    Utopia

    Utopia

    5.6 2013 HD

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  • 2003
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    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    7.3 2003 HD

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  • 2004
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    Stealing a Nation

    Stealing a Nation

    8.3 2004 HD

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  • 2004
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    Stealing a Nation

    Stealing a Nation

    8.3 2004 HD

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  • 2010
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    The War You Don't See

    The War You Don't See

    7.7 2010 HD

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  • 1986
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    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1998
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    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

    6 1998 HD

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  • 1994
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    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    6.7 1994 HD

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

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

    7.1 2003 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Occupation of the American Mind

    The Occupation of the American Mind

    8.3 2016 HD

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  • 2001
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    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    6.4 2001 HD

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  • 1981
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    Heroes

    Heroes

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1994
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    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    1 1994 HD

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  • 1976
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    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

    1 1976 HD

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  • 1979
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    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    7.8 1979 HD

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  • 1970
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    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    8.2 1970 HD

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  • 1996
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    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    7 1996 HD

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  • 1990
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    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    Cambodia: The Betrayal

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1995
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    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1999
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    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    1 1999 HD

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  • 1971
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    Conversations With a Working Man

    Conversations With a Working Man

    1 1971 HD

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  • 2000
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    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    7.8 2000 HD

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  • 1998
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    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

    6 1998 HD

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  • 1979
    imgMovies

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    7.8 1979 HD

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  • 2016
    imgMovies

    The Coming War on China

    The Coming War on China

    6.8 2016 HD

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  • 2016
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    The Coming War on China

    The Coming War on China

    6.8 2016 HD

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  • 2022
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    Ithaka

    Ithaka

    8.3 2022 HD

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  • 1970
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    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1997
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    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    1 1997 HD

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  • 1974
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    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    1 1974 HD

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  • 2001
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    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    6.4 2001 HD

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  • 2001
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    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    6.4 2001 HD

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  • 2019
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    The Dirty War on the NHS

    The Dirty War on the NHS

    10 2019 HD

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  • 2019
    imgMovies

    The Dirty War on the NHS

    The Dirty War on the NHS

    10 2019 HD

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  • 2007
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    The War on Democracy

    The War on Democracy

    7.5 2007 HD

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