John Pilger
Directing • Born 1939-10-09 – Died 2023-12-30
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.
Filmography
57 credits
Palestine Is Still the Issue
Movie • 2003
Self - Presenter
The Mexicans
Movie • 1980
Do You Remember Vietnam
Movie • 1978
The Truth Game
Movie • 1983
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
Movie • 1970
The Coming War on China
Movie • 2016
Stealing a Nation
Movie • 2004
Himself
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
Movie • 1986
Presenter
Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
Movie • 2006
Self
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Movie • 1994
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
Movie • 1983
Himself
Inside Burma: Land of Fear
Movie • 1996
Himself
The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
Movie • 1999
The War You Don't See
Movie • 2010
Welcome to Australia
Movie • 1999
Cambodia: Year One
Movie • 1980
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
Movie • 1994
Heroes
Movie • 1981
Pilger in Australia
Movie • 1976
Vietnam: The Last Battle
Movie • 1995
War By Other Means
Movie • 1992
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Movie • 2003
Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
Movie • 1976
Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
Movie • 1974
A Nod and a Wink
Movie • 1975
A Faraway Country
Movie • 1977
The Most Powerful Politician in America
Movie • 1974
Conversations With a Working Man
Movie • 1971
Siebie - Reporter
To Know Us Is To Love Us
Movie • 1975
An Unjustifiable Risk
Movie • 1977
Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
Movie • 1975
Street of Joy
Movie • 1976
Dismantling a Dream
Movie • 1977
Vietnam: Still America's War
Movie • 1974
Smashing Kids
Movie • 1975
An Unfashionable Tragedy
Movie • 1975
Pyramid Lake Is Dying
Movie • 1976
One British Family
Movie • 1974
Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
Movie • 1989
Israel: After the Earthquake
Movie • 1974
The New Rulers of the World
Movie • 2001
Utopia
Movie • 2013
Himself
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Movie • 2024
Self
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Movie • 1979
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
Movie • 1997
Himself - Presenter
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
Movie • 1983
Apartheid Did Not Die
Movie • 1998
Nobody's Children
Movie • 1975
Presenter
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Movie • 1974
Presenter
Japan Behind the Mask
Movie • 1987
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
Movie • 1984
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
Movie • 1993
Cambodia: The Betrayal
Movie • 1990
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Movie • 2000
Cambodia: Year Ten
Movie • 1989
The Dirty War on the NHS
Movie • 2019
The War on Democracy
Movie • 2007
Self