1975
An Unfashionable Tragedy, Nobody's Children, Mr Nixon's
Secret Legacy, Smashing Kids, To Know Us Is To Love Us, A Nod & A
Wink
1976
Zap - The Weapon is Food, Pyramid Lake is Dying, Street of Joy, Pilger in Australia
1977
A Faraway Country, Dismantling A Dream, An Unjustifiable Risk
1978
Do You Remember Vietnam?
1979
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1980
The Mexicans
1981
Cambodia Year One, Heroes
1982
Frontline: In Search of Truth in Wartime
1983
The Truth Game -
John Pilger's penetrating documentary which looks at world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race.
1983
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
With
4,000 hostile troops strung along Nicaragua's jungle borders with
Honduras, John Pilger investigates this tiny nation's right to survive.
1984
Burp! Pepsi v Coke in The Ice Cold War
This
is the first film made by John Pilger with director Alan Lowery, a
fellow Australian. It looks at the worldwide struggle for soft drink
supremacy by the Coca Cola company, which illuminates the power of
multinational cooporations.
1985
The Secret Country - The First Australians Fight Back
John
Pilger and Alan Lowery uncover the story of a remarkable people - the
Aborigines - with a unique 40,000 year past.
1987
Japan Behind the Mask
A
look behind the popular images and stereotypes of Japan today,
discovering the ordinary people whose struggle does not fit the
'corporate image'.
1988
The Last Dream: Heroes Unsung; Secrets; Other People's Wars
In
these three films, John Pilger and Alan Lowery return to Australia to
celebrate the country's bicentenary, interviewing an extraordinary
range of Australians, whose views are a long way from those of the
treasured stereotypes.
1989
Cambodia Year Ten
1990
Cambodia The Betrayal
An
examination of the continued secret support given by Western
governments to the Khmer Rouge.
1992
War by Other Means
John Pilger and David Munro
examine the policy of First World banks agreeing loans with Third World
countries, who are then unable to meet the cripling interest charges.
1992
Frontline - In Search Of Truth In Wartime
John Pilger traces the changing face of war-reporting from the Crimea through the two World Wars to Vietnam and the Falklands. 1993
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
John Pilger and David Munro
discover startling new evidence that the deadly Pol Pot regime is on
the brink of returning to power.
1994
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (updated in 1999)
The
exposure of another terrible human tragedy to which governments turned
a blind eye, East Timor - a tiny country off the northern tip of
Australia - is ruled by bloodshed and fear. More than 200,000 people
were wiped out by neighbouring Indonesia. Since East Timor's liberation
in 1999, this film's contribution has been recognised worldwide.
1994
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
John Pilger and David Munro
look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of
international arms dealing.
1995
Vietnam: The Last Battle
On
30 April 1975, longest war this century in Vietnam came to a close.
This film attempts to rescue Vietnam's past from media oblivion and
describes its last battle against the forces of globalisation.
Flying the Flag: Arming the World
John Pilger and David Munro look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international arms dealing.
1996
Inside Burma: Land of Fear (updated 1998)
John Pilger and David Munro
go undercover in one of the world's most isolated, and extraordinary
countries, Burma, which Amnesty International calls 'a prison without
bars'. They discover slave labour preparing for tourism and foreign
investment.
1997
Breaking the Mirror - The Murdoch Effect
The
British public were told that the new information technology, heralded
by The Sun's move to Wapping, would bring a greater variety of
newspapers and a more diverse media. But it produced a contracted press
controlled by ever fewer proprietors. John Pilger describes the
downfall of his old paper and the all-pervasive influence of Rupert
Murdoch.
1998
South Africa: Apartheid did not Die
John
Pilger was banned from South Africa for his reporting during the
apartheid era. On his return thirty years later with Alan Lowery, he
describes the extraordinary generosity of a liberated people, but asks
who are the true beneficiaries of a democracy - the black majority or
the white minority?
1999
Welcome to Australia
With
the run-up to the Sydney Olympics, John Pilger and Alan Lowery take a
look at what's behind the curtain of hype and glamour. Australia's
Aborigines are still exculded, impoverished and mistreated - while
their part in the brilliant history of Australia's sports successes
goes virtually unrecognized.
2000
Paying The Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
John
Pilger and Alan Lowery travel to Iraq with Denis Halliday, a former
assistant secretary-general of the United Nations who resigned over
what he called the "immoral policy" of economic sanctions. There they
find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator,
Saddam Hussein, over whom they have no control.
2001
The New Rulers Of The World
John
Pilger explores the impact of globalisation, taking Indonesia as his
prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model
pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998. Under scrutiny
are the increasingly powerful multinationals and the institutions that
back them, notably the IMF and The World Bank.
2002
Palestine Is Still The Issue
John
Pilger returns to the Occupied Teritories of the West Bank and Gaza
where he filmed a documentary with the same title, about the same
issues, in 1974. He finds the basic problems unchanged: a desperate,
destitute people whose homeland is illegally occupied by the world's
fourth biggest military power. He hears extraordinary stories from
Palestinians, though most of his interviews are with Israelis whose
voices are seldom heard, including the remarkable witness of a man who
lost his daughter in a suicide bombing. This film was nominated for a
BAFTA, a British Academy Award.
2003
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
This
film, set in Afghanistan, Iraq and Washington, looks at President
Bush's 'war on terror' and the 'liberation' of countries where
bloodshed and repression continue. In Afghanistan, Pilger investigates
the claim that life has improved for the women of Iraq now that the
Taliban have gone. In Washington, he interviews leading American
officials, 'neo-cons' in the Bush regime. John Bolton, of the State
Department, now the US Ambassador to the United Nations, says he
regards the figure of 10,000 civilian deaths in Iraq as 'quite low'.
2004
Stealing a Nation
Pilger 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. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony,
Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base.
Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and
Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of
Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper
trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a
crime against humanity.'
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