John Pilger Movies

  • 2006
    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

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    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...

    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
  • 1970
    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

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    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...

    Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems
  • 1976
    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

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

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
  • 2003
    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    Palestine Is Still the Issue

    Palestine Is Still the Issue

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

    Palestine Is Still the Issue
  • 1975
    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

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

    An Unfashionable Tragedy
  • 1975
    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

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

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
  • 1974
    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

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

    The Most Powerful Politician in America
  • 1980
    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

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    1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.

    Cambodia: Year One
  • 2000
    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

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    An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
  • 2003
    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

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

    Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
  • 1976
    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

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

    Pilger in Australia
  • 1993
    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

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

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
  • 2001
    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

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

    The New Rulers of the World
  • 1989
    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

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

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
  • 1981
    Heroes

    Heroes

    Heroes

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

    Heroes
  • 1974
    One British Family

    One British Family

    One British Family

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

    One British Family
  • 1995
    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle

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    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...

    Vietnam: The Last Battle
  • 1974
    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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    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...

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent
  • 1999
    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

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

    Welcome to Australia
  • 1978
    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

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

    Do You Remember Vietnam