John Pilger Movies

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

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later. It was one of the boldest...

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

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

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

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...

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

Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the...

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

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

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

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

“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,...

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

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

In the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s policy...

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...