John Pilger Movies

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

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

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...

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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...

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

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...

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

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

“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,...