John Pilger Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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,...

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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...

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