John Pilger
Known for: Directing
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
Series
World in Action
1963
Film
The War on Democracy
Self
2007
Film
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
Self
2024
Film
The War You Don't See
Self
2010
Film
The Coming War on China
2016
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
Presenter
1986
Film
Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
Self
2006
Film
Palestine Is Still the Issue
Self - Presenter
2003
Film
War By Other Means
1992
Film
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Presenter
1974
Film
Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
1976
Film
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Self
1994
Film
The New Rulers of the World
2001
Film
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
1984
Film
To Know Us Is To Love Us
1975
Film
Utopia
Himself
2013
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
Self
1970
Film
Conversations With a Working Man
Siebie - Reporter
1971
Film
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Self
2003
Welcome to Australia
Self
1999
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
1994
Film
One British Family
1974
Film
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
1993
Film
The Dirty War on the NHS
2019
Film
Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
1975
Film
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Self
1979
Film
A Nod and a Wink
1975
Film
The Most Powerful Politician in America
1974
Film
Israel: After the Earthquake
1974
Film
Pyramid Lake Is Dying
1976
Film
Street of Joy
1976
Film
The Mexicans
1980
Film
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
Himself - Presenter
1997
Film
The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
1999
Film
Cambodia: The Betrayal
1990
Film
Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
1974
Film
An Unfashionable Tragedy
1975
Film
Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
1989
Film
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Self
2000
Film
Cambodia: Year Ten
1989
Film
The Truth Game
1983
Film
Cambodia: Year One
1980
Film
Japan Behind the Mask
1987
Film
Do You Remember Vietnam
1978
Film
Pilger in Australia
1976
Film
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
1983
Film
Apartheid Did Not Die
1998
Film
Vietnam: Still America's War
1974
Film
Heroes
1981
Film
Nobody's Children
Presenter
1975
Film
A Faraway Country
1977
Film
Stealing a Nation
Himself
2004
Inside Burma: Land of Fear
Himself
1996
Film
Dismantling a Dream
1977
Film
Vietnam: The Last Battle
Self
1995
Film
Smashing Kids
1975
Film
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
Himself
1983
Film
An Unjustifiable Risk
1977