A celebration of the life and legacy of John Pilger, whose journalism and films took on power, uncovered hidden agendas and gave voice to the voiceless across the world
First published in 1986, ‘Heroes’ is John Pilger’s classic work. With a new introduction, it is a vivid, engrossing and at times blackly amusing history and personal story covering the periods for which his journalism is renowned. The heroes of Pilger’s narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in […]
An investigation of the changing face of war reporting. “What is the role of the media in wartime? Is it simply to record or is it to explain, and from whose point of view – the military, the politicians or the victims?” Inspired by Phillip Knightley’s book about the history of war correspondents, The First Casualty […]
John Pilger talks to Wilfred Burchett In the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the official lying began. The Allied occupation authorities banned all mention of radiation poisoning and insisted that the victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been killed or injured only by the atomic blast. ‘No radioactivity in […]
John Pilger talks to Martha Gellhorn John Pilger has always considered himself an ‘outsider’ – that is, a journalist who believes ‘received wisdoms’ should be questioned. In 1983, Britain’s newly launched Channel 4 broadcast nine face-to-face interviews by Pilger entitled The Outsiders. In deciding on his subjects, Pilger chose ‘those who have challenged orthodox ideas […]
John Pilger and Anthony Barnett, in a series of vivid and often shocking reports, tell the story of two nations’ struggle to survive the aftermath of the Vietnam war. They un-make the myths constructed by Western propaganda and expose the scandal of the United Nations’ continuing recognition of Pol Pot as Cambodia’s legitimate ruler. This […]
The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated. “On patrol… a hand would reach back, followed by a reassuring voice, ‘C’mon, man, let’s go!’ The voice would come from a street corner in the Bronx, a rural town in the Confederacy, a steel mill in Pennsylvania – little people’s America.” John Pilger’s […]
The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country’s new-found stability. “The film you are about to see will show what your compassion and generosity have achieved. It will also show, in the first report both from here in Cambodia and the camps in Thailand, why this suffering nation is being kept […]
The shocking state of Cambodia after Pol Pot’s murderous regime. John Pilger’s shocking 1979 documentary Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia alerted the world to the horrors wrought by Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. The film was originally broadcast on commercial television in Britain and Australia without advertising, which was unprecedented. The British […]
An investigation of the US policy that makes food more powerful than oil. “‘For agreeing to détente, Russia got American food. For signing a Middle East peace agreement, Egypt got American food. For prolonging the war in Vietnam, the generals of Saigon got American food, which they sold to buy arms.” In the first of […]
The public reaction to a Vietnamese refugee camp constructed outside an American town. “Every day, out of the sky, came hundreds of Vietnamese. Twenty-four thousand of them on the edge of town, waiting for people to come and sponsor them. But every one was a reminder that the boys in the graveyard there died for […]
