John Pilger Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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...

John Pilger documentary from 1974.

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

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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...

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...

This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own...

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

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

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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