John Pilger Movies

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

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

The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a...

An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second...

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son. ...

This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.

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

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

Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in...

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...

American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy. John Pilger says...

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

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

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a...

Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved,...

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...