John Pilger
Directing
- Born:
- 1939-10-09
- Died:
- 2023-12-30
- Place of birth:
- Sydney, Australia
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
The Dirty War on the NHS
The Coming War on China
Utopia
The War You Don't See
The War on Democracy
Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
Stealing a Nation
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
Palestine Is Still the Issue
The New Rulers of the World
Democracy Now!
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Welcome to Australia
The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
Apartheid Did Not Die
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
Inside Burma: Land of Fear
Vietnam: The Last Battle
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
War By Other Means
Cambodia: The Betrayal
Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
Cambodia: Year Ten
Japan Behind the Mask
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
The Truth Game
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
Heroes
Cambodia: Year One
The Mexicans
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
Do You Remember Vietnam
An Unjustifiable Risk
Dismantling a Dream
A Faraway Country
Street of Joy
Pyramid Lake Is Dying
Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
Pilger in Australia
A Nod and a Wink
To Know Us Is To Love Us
Smashing Kids
Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
Nobody's Children
An Unfashionable Tragedy
One British Family
The Most Powerful Politician in America
Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
Israel: After the Earthquake
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Vietnam: Still America's War
Conversations With a Working Man
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
World in Action