John Pilger Movies

  • 2001
    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

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

    The New Rulers of the World
  • 1993
    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

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

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
  • 1996
    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

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

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear
  • 1983
    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

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    “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,...

    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
  • 1970
    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

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

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
  • 1989
    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

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

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
  • 1997
    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

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    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...

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
  • 1974
    Israel: After the Earthquake

    Israel: After the Earthquake

    Israel: After the Earthquake

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    John Pilger documentary from 1974.

    Israel: After the Earthquake
  • 1980
    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

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

    Cambodia: Year One
  • 1976
    Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

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    Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in...

    Street of Joy
  • 1975
    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

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

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
  • 1999
    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

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    Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery,...

    Welcome to Australia
  • 1995
    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

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    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...

    Vietnam: The Last Battle
  • 1974
    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

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

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
  • 1978
    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

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

    Do You Remember Vietnam
  • 1998
    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

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

    Apartheid Did Not Die
  • 1999
    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

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

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
  • 1974
    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

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

    The Most Powerful Politician in America
  • 1994
    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

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    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...

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World
  • 1983
    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

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

    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive