John Pilger Movies

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

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...

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

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into...

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.

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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

“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,...