John Pilger Movies

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

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...

Documentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more than half of the 500,000 people remanded in custody by...

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

The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written...

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

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

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

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

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

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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had...

Britain is still a world leader. Indeed it has twenty percent of a world market, second only to the United States. And this industry is considered so...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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.

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...