John Pilger Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class...

In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top...

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

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...

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy. John Pilger says...

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...

“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 returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...