John Pilger Movies

  • 1976
    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

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

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
  • 1975
    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

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

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
  • 1992
    War By Other Means

    War By Other Means

    War By Other Means

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    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...

    War By Other Means
  • 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
  • 1975
    Nobody's Children

    Nobody's Children

    Nobody's Children

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

    Nobody's Children
  • 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
  • 1995
    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

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    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...

    Vietnam: The Last Battle
  • 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
  • 1980
    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

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

    Cambodia: Year One
  • 1986
    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

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

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
  • 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
  • 1975
    A Nod and a Wink

    A Nod and a Wink

    A Nod and a Wink

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    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...

    A Nod and a Wink
  • 1994
    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

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

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
  • 1994
    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

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    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...

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World
  • 1974
    One British Family

    One British Family

    One British Family

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

    One British Family
  • 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
  • 1974
    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

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

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
  • 1977
    An Unjustifiable Risk

    An Unjustifiable Risk

    An Unjustifiable Risk

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

    An Unjustifiable Risk
  • 1976
    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

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    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...

    Pyramid Lake Is Dying
  • 1974
    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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    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...

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent