John Pilger Documentaries

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1. The Dirty War on the National Health Service (2019)

106 min | Documentary

Veteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.

Director: John Pilger | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 112

2. The Coming War on China (2016)

TV-PG | 113 min | Documentary, History

From award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

Director: John Pilger | Stars: Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, Bruce Cumings, Dana Rohrabacher

Votes: 1,690

4. Utopia (II) (2013)

112 min | Documentary, History, News

Exploring offenses practiced by popular media, big business, police forces and Governments helping the Australian 225 year campaign of genocide continue against Aboriginal Australians.

Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Jon Altman, Pat Anderson, Mal Brough

Votes: 445

5. The War You Don't See (2010)

97 min | Documentary, War

Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.

Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, Stuart Ewen, Melvin Goodman, Dan Rather

Votes: 1,526

6. The War on Democracy (2007)

Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary

Venezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.

Directors: Chris Martin, John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Stars: John Pilger, Philip Agee, Salvador Allende, George Bush

Votes: 2,527

7. Stealing a Nation (2004 TV Movie)

56 min | Documentary, History

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population ... See full summary »

Directors: John Pilger, Sean Crotty | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 408

8. Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

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

Directors: Steve Connelly, John Pilger | Stars: John Pilger, John Bolton, Reed Brody, Wesley Clark

Votes: 298

9. Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary

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

Director: Tony Stark | Stars: John Pilger, Fatima Abed-Rabo, Amjad Abu Laban, Mustafa Barghouthi

Votes: 453

10. The New Rulers of the World (2001 TV Movie)

65 min | Documentary

The myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one ... See full summary »

Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: Pramoedya Ananta Toer, George Monbiot, Dita Sari

Votes: 264

11. Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)

75 min | Documentary, War

John Pilger investigates the effects of sanctions on the Iraqi civilian population and reveals that the ten years of extraordinary isolation, enforced by Britain and the US and imposed by ... See full summary »

Directors: Alan Lowery, John Pilger | Stars: Felicity Arbuthnot, Denis Halliday, Jinan Ghalib Hussein, John Pilger

Votes: 120

12. Welcome to Australia (1999 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary, Sport

How native Aborigines were and still are excluded in many ways from Australian society.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: Robert Cavanagh, John Howard, Jacqui Katona, Wally McArthur

Votes: 53

13. Apartheid Did Not Die (1998 TV Movie)

Documentary

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Director: Alan Lowery | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 44

14. Network First (1994– )
Episode: Breaking the Mirror: The Murdoch Effect (1997)

Documentary

Programme in which journalist John Pilger makes a tribute to the Daily Mirror newspaper. He traces the history of the tabloid, considering the influence of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell and how the standard of journalism has dropped.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Virginia Bottomley, Hugh Cudlipp, Paul Foot

Votes: 11

15. Network First (1994– )
Episode: Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996)

Documentary

Documentary about the military ruling regime in Burma, its use of forced and child labour to build road and rail links, and how the participation of Western countries aid the system by investing in poorly run projects.

Director: David Munro | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 11

16. Network First (1994– )
Episode: Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995)

51 min | Documentary

Documentary examining how Vietnam has fared since the end of the conflict with America twenty years ago. There is also a look at Hollywood distortion of the Vietnam War.

Director: David Munro | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 8

17. Network First (1994– )
Episode: Flying the Flag - Arming the World (1994)

Documentary

The British arms business and its implications in World politics.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, David Clark, Michael Cooley, Sam Cummings

Votes: 11

18. Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)

60 min | Documentary

Documentary of the events that occurred in the East Timor genocide during 1990-91.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Alan Clark, James Dunn, Gareth Evans

Votes: 211

20. Viewpoint '92 (1992)
Episode: War by Other Means (1992)

Documentary

Explores how banks in the First World advance loans to Third World countries and its catastrophic effects on the lifestyles and well-being of the citizens in poorer countries.

Star: John Pilger

21. Viewpoint '90 (1990– )
Episode: Cambodia, the Betrayal (1990)

Documentary

A year after warning of the dangers of a return by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia: Year Ten, John Pilger went back to the country still suffering from the effects of Pol Pot's tyranny and Western sanctions with director David Munro.

Director: David Munro | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 6

22. The Last Dream (1988)

55 min | Documentary

A program dealing with a society of people living in third world conditions in a first world country.

Star: John Pilger

Votes: 19

24. The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1986 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

John Pilger tells of their struggles of indigenous Australians as they were driven from their lands and he follows events throughout this century as they relate to Aboriginal rights.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Vince Forrester, Mario Fredericks, Bob Hawke

Votes: 45

25. Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War (1984 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

The rise of Coca-Cola and its duel with Pepsi-Cola: how these two giants aim to conquer the World.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Donald M. Kendall, Donald Keough, Wilbur Kurtz

Votes: 56

26. The Truth Game (1983 Video)

79 min

John Pilger's penetrating film which show the world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, ... See full summary »

Star: John Pilger

Votes: 11

27. Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive (1983 TV Movie)

53 min | Documentary, War

A historical account of Nicaragua in the context of US interventions in Latin America.

Director: Alan Lowery | Stars: John Pilger, Xavier Gorostiaga, Néstor Sánchez

Votes: 32

28. The Mexicans (1983 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

John Pilger reports on political repression in Mexico.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, Larry Hall

29. The Outsiders (1983)

Documentary

John Pilger interviews people who have lived their lives outside the system.

Stars: John Pilger, Costa-Gavras, Salman Rushdie, Martha Gellhorn

31. Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)

50 min | Documentary, History, War

Disturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.

Director: David Munro | Stars: John Pilger, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot

Votes: 315

32. Do You Remember Vietnam (1978 TV Movie)

52 min | Documentary

John Pilger, after reporting the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, returns in 1978 to take a look at the Vietnam of three years later and along with David Munro made this documentary.

Director: David Munro | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 37

33. Pilger (1974– )

25 min | Documentary

Respected journalist, John Pilger, takes a look at various themes including Vietnam and prisoners on remand.

Stars: John Pilger, Demelza Val Baker, Wendy Gill, Andrea Gill

Votes: 8

34. World in Action (1963–1998)
Episode: The Quiet Mutiny (1970)

22 min | Documentary

Embedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.

Director: Charles Denton | Star: John Pilger

Votes: 66



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