John Pilger Movies

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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...

“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,...

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