John Pilger Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written...

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...

“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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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