John Pilger Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy. It contains harrowing scenes of starving...

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

“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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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...