John Pilger Movies

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

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 look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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