John Pilger Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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...

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

In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing...

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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

“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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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