John Pilger Movies

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

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

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...