John Pilger

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

“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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

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

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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