John Pilger
Birthday: 1939-10-09
Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
Biography: John Richard Pilger was an Emmy Award winning Australian journalist based in London. Pilger lived in the United Kingdom from 1962. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger was a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considered to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger also criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print media, he had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and wrote a fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine. Pilger twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award, in 1967 and 1979. His documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide. He also received several honorary doctorates, and was a visiting professor at Cornell University.
Movies
Palestine Is Still the Issue
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contain...
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Do You Remember Vietnam
Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime...
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The Truth Game
1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised....
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Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing f...
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The Coming War on China
The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - t...
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Stealing a Nation
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, consp...
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The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia...
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Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just...
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in...
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Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
“What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from whos...
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Inside Burma: Land of Fear
“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the p...
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The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the inte...
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The War You Don't See
This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day....
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Welcome to Australia
Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger,...
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Cambodia: Year One
1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability....
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Flying the Flag, Arming the World
Britain is still a world leader. Indeed it has twenty percent of a world market, second only to the ...
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Heroes
1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated....
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Vietnam: The Last Battle
In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where ...
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War By Other Means
War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans ...
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Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11....
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Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
In the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals American S...
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Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many...
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A Nod and a Wink
In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means ...
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A Faraway Country
Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered C...
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The Most Powerful Politician in America
Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the sc...
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Conversations With a Working Man
This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essent...
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To Know Us Is To Love Us
John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, featu...
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An Unjustifiable Risk
The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are...
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Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr ...
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Street of Joy
Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John ...
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Dismantling a Dream
A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a ...
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Vietnam: Still America's War
John Pilger returns to Vietnam in 1974. America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of ...
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Smashing Kids
Children growing up in poverty is the subject of Smashing Kids, 1975. John Pilger meets the Hopwoods...
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An Unfashionable Tragedy
In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy...
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Pyramid Lake Is Dying
The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is D...
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One British Family
In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from form...
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Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia....
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The New Rulers of the World
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking glob...
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Utopia
Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relations...
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The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the re...
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Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rou...
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Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 yea...
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Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?...
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Nobody's Children
Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Documentary about innocent people confined to prison on remand. John Pilger reports that more than ...
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Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of g...
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Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger....
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Cambodia: The Betrayal
1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country....
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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq....
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Cambodia: Year Ten
1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge....
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The Dirty War on the NHS
John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis....
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The War on Democracy
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relation...
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