John Pilger Movies

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

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...

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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

“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,...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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

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