John Pilger Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

“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.

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...

John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community in...

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from former British colonies, race became a political...

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

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

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

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