John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist based in London. Pilger has lived in the United Kingdom since 1962. Since his early years as a war correspondent in Vietnam, Pilger has been a strong critic of American, Australian and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist agenda. Pilger has also criticised his native country's treatment of indigenous Australians and the practices of the mainstream media. In the British print media, he has had a long association with the Daily Mirror, and writes a fortnightly column for the New Statesman magazine.
Pilger has twice won Britain's Journalist of the Year Award. His documentaries, screened internationally, have gained awards in Britain and worldwide.
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1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community. ...
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1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country. ...
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1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia. ...
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1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated. ...
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1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability. ...
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Documentary from 1975 on the plight of mentally handicapped children held in appalling circumstances in the UK. ...
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Watch Now"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. To tell their story, we had to go undercover. What we fo ...
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Watch NowThe sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor. ...
Watch NowBritain 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 important by the government that it consumes almost half of all research and development funds. Strangely ...
Watch NowWar 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"). It also ...
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Watch NowJohn 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 ...
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Watch NowDocumentary 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 condit ...
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Watch NowIn 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 th ...
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