John Pilger Movies

A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.

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

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

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.

In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top...

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

Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Pilger's documentary, The Dirty War on the NHS, "goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today", he says. Britain's National Health...

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

“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...