John Pilger Movies

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

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and...

A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.

How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?

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

In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing...

A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this...

“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.

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

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

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

“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,...

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

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

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.

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...

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

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