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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.
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12 May 1974
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 America had withdrawn its ground forces at the beginning of the previous year, he reports, yet the war had not ended.
02 June 1974
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 of the notorious drug prescribed to women during pregnancy.
09 June 1974
Alabama governor George Wallace made his name as a segregationist remembered for standing “in the schoolhouse door” of the University of Alabama in 1963 in an attempt to stop the enrolment of black students.
19 July 1983
“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 the victims?
14 August 1975
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 life during father Harry’s unemployment as his family of five survive on £1 a day.
06 May 1981
1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.
26 May 1974
John Pilger documentary from 1974.
22 May 1984
Burp! Pepsi Vs Coke in the Ice Cold War traces the history of these brands against the backdrop of global politics.
01 January 1994
Britain is still a world leader. Indeed it has twenty percent of a world market, second only to the United States.
21 April 2022
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an elderly man’s fight to save his son.
18 February 1997
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 quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns.
21 August 1975
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 Smith, Arkansas, welcoming South Vietnamese refugees just months after the United States’s defeat and humiliation in south-east Asia – while their own dead of the war lie in the town’s graveyard.
16 January 1975
American defence policy under Gerald Ford, successor to a disgraced president, is the subject of Mr Nixon’s Secret Legacy.
01 January 1983
How can a country survive when its jungle borders hold 4000 hostile troops?
01 January 1978
Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime
01 January 1980
1980. A report on political repression in Mexico.
01 January 1998
An analysis of South Africa's new, democratic regime.
19 May 1974
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 magistrates each year are eventually found not guilty, fined or, as in the case of “Helen”, given a conditional discharge.
25 January 2024
Examining the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.
01 January 1989
1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge.
19 January 2016
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world—except the United States.
20 September 1976
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 United States.
22 February 2006
News on Sunday was a left-wing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later.
01 January 1990
1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country.
26 January 1999
1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.
15 June 2007
Set both in Latin America and the United States, the film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
21 November 1989
1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.
13 January 1987
A look at Japanese society and its emergent nationalism.
28 August 1975
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 this with statutes in police states such as Brazil and the Soviet Union, which use “a vague law” to silence and imprison people for their political or religious views.
10 September 1980
1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability.
02 January 1975
In 1974, when famine hit the country, Pilger returned to Bangladesh to make An Unfashionable Tragedy.
19 September 1977
The potential dangers of nuclear weapons and the planned new breed of plutonium-fuelled reactors are the subject of An Unjustifiable Risk, made in 1977.
16 June 1974
In the 1960s, as West Indians, Pakistanis, Indians and Africans began to arrive in Britain from former British colonies, race became a political issue.
13 September 1976
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 native Americans and the stealing of their resources.
28 February 1983
1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.
12 September 1977
A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream.
20 April 1993
John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.
01 January 1976
1976. A candid look at the highs and lows of Australian society.
09 January 1975
Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK.
18 July 2001
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 big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter.
05 December 2016
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 economic power, China (both nuclear armed) are on the road to war.
15 November 2013
Documentary by John Pilger looks at the awful truth behind white Australia's dysfunctional relationss
14 December 2010
This film investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day.
31 July 2004
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 of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean.
06 January 2003
A documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this conflict.
01 January 1986
The shameful history of persecution of the Aborigines in Australia. The secret history of Australia is a historical conspiracy of silence.
07 June 1971
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.
30 October 1979
John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.
21 September 2003
A critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.
18 March 1994
The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.
01 January 2000
An analysis of the effect of economic sanctions on Iraq.
19 May 1992
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 cause them to pay more interest then they ever receive in international aid ("debt as a weapon").
05 September 1977
Shortly after his 1977 Daily Mirror reports on dissidents in the Soviet Union, John Pilger entered Czechoslovakia undercover to film A Faraway Country… a people of whom we know nothing, a title taking the words that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain used to describe Czechoslovakia dismissively in 1938 when it was invaded by the Nazis.
29 November 2019
John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.
28 September 1970
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats - "lifers" - and the soldiers who physically and mentally fight the war on the ground, the "grunts".
06 September 1976
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 refusing aid to countries that do not support his government in the United Nations and the existence of a “Zap Office” – officially, the Office of Multilateral Diplomacy – specially set up in the State Department to monitor voting patterns.
14 May 1996
“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship seized power, the assault on its people all but forgotten.
02 December 1999
Welcome to Australia is a 1999 Carlton Television documentary, written and presented by John Pilger, which was directed and produced by Alan Lowery, and charts the history of injustice endured by indigenous Australians in the context of the build-up to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
25 April 1995
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 helicopter pad.
