John Pilger
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.66 |
| Birthday | 1939-10-09 |
| Place of Birth | Sydney, Australia |
| Also Known As |
2003
Palestine Is Still the Issue
7.3/3
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this confli...
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Palestine Is Still the Issue
1980
The Mexicans
0/0
1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.
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The Mexicans
1978
Do You Remember Vietnam
0/0
Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime
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Do You Remember Vietnam
1983
The Truth Game
0/0
1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.
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The Truth Game
1970
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
8.2/3
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing r...
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Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
2016
The Coming War on China
6.8/25
The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the world's second econo...
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The Coming War on China
2004
Stealing a Nation
8.3/14
This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leavin...
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Stealing a Nation
1986
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
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The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence. Written hi...
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The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
2006
Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
0/0
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 busi...
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Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
1994
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
6.7/7
The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
1983
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
0/0
“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, the politicians or...
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Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
1996
Inside Burma: Land of Fear
7/1
“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship seized po...
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Inside Burma: Land of Fear
1999
The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
0/0
1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.
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The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
2010
The War You Don't See
7.7/33
This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.
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The War You Don't See
1999
Welcome to Australia
0/0
Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery, a...
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Welcome to Australia
1980
Cambodia: Year One
0/0
1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.
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Cambodia: Year One
1994
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
0/0
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...
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Flying the Flag, Arming the World
1981
Heroes
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1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.
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Heroes
1976
Pilger in Australia
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1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.
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Pilger in Australia
1995
Vietnam: The Last Battle
0/0
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 he...
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Vietnam: The Last Battle
1992
War By Other Means
0/0
War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which...
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War By Other Means
2003
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
7.1/9
A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.
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Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
1976
Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
0/0
In the first of a trilogy of documentaries made in the United States, John Pilger reveals American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s policy of refu...
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Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
1974
Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
0/0
Allied to a four-year Daily Mirror campaign by John Pilger that helped achieve compensation for many of the forgotten and mostly working class victims...
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Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
1975
A Nod and a Wink
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In A Nod and a Wink, John Pilger demonstrates how the charge of conspiracy is being used as a means of political suppression in Britain, comparing thi...
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A Nod and a Wink
1977
A Faraway Country
0/0
Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway Country...
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A Faraway Country
1974
The Most Powerful Politician in America
0/0
Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of Alabama in 19...
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The Most Powerful Politician in America
1971
Conversations With a Working Man
0/0
This film expresses John Pilger’s belief that working people are seldom allowed a place in an essentially bourgeois media on their own political terms...
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Conversations With a Working Man
1975
To Know Us Is To Love Us
0/0
John Pilger’s first documentary on the aftermath of the Vietnam War, To Know Us Is to Love Us, features a caring, humane American community in Fort Sm...
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To Know Us Is To Love Us
1977
An Unjustifiable Risk
0/0
The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are the subject of An Unjustifiable Risk, made in 197...
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An Unjustifiable Risk
1975
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 that milit...
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Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
1976
Street of Joy
0/0
Madison Avenue, the centre of the American advertising industry, is the subject of the last of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the Unit...
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Street of Joy
1977
Dismantling a Dream
0/0
A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream. Pilger recalls the establishment of the NHS...
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Dismantling a Dream
1974
Vietnam: Still America's War
0/0
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 not...
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Vietnam: Still America's War
1975
Smashing Kids
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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 l...
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Smashing Kids
1975
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 childre...
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An Unfashionable Tragedy
1976
Pyramid Lake Is Dying
0/0
The second of John Pilger’s three 1976 documentaries made in the United States. In Pyramid Lake Is Dying, he reports on the demise in the culture of n...
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Pyramid Lake Is Dying
1974
One British Family
0/0
In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from former British colonies, race became a political issue...
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One British Family
1989
Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
0/0
1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.
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Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
1974
Israel: After the Earthquake
0/0
John Pilger documentary from 1974.
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Israel: After the Earthquake
2001
The New Rulers of the World
6.4/6
The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargo...
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The New Rulers of the World
2013
Utopia
5.6/9
Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relationship with Indigenous Australians
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Utopia
2024
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
0/0
Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the...
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The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
1979
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
7.8/7
John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and d...
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Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1997
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
0/0
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...
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Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
1983
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
6.7/3
How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?
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Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
1998
Apartheid Did Not Die
6/1
An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.
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Apartheid Did Not Die
1975
Nobody's Children
0/0
Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.
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Nobody's Children
1974
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
0/0
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...
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1987
Japan Behind the Mask
0/0
A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.
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Japan Behind the Mask
1984
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
7/2
Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics. The second world war was the perfe...
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Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
1993
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
10/1
John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.
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Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
1990
Cambodia: The Betrayal
0/0
1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.
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Cambodia: The Betrayal
2000
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
7.8/4
An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.
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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
1989
Cambodia: Year Ten
0/0
1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.
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Cambodia: Year Ten
2019
The Dirty War on the NHS
10/1
John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.
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The Dirty War on the NHS
2007
The War on Democracy
7.5/38
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuel...
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