John Pilger Movies

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

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

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

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.

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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...

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

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

1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.

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...

1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.

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

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

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

“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,...

Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway...

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

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

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...