‘The War You Don’t See’ is a powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of ’embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq. As weapons […]
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Documentaries That Changed The World (Aus)
‘Documentaries That Changed The World’ chronicles the shameful injustices of the Asia-Pacific region from the battle fields of Vietnam to the killing fields of Cambodia and the bloody Indonesian invasion of East Timor. The four films included are… The Quiet MutinyDo You Remember Vietnam?Death of a Nation: The Timor ConspiracyYear Zero: The Silent Death of […]
John Pilger’s Return Ticket (Aus)
The three films included are… South Africa: Apartheid Did Not DieIn Search Of Truth In WartimeVietnam: The Last Battle John Pilger was banned from South Africa for his reporting during the apartheid era. On his return thirty years later to film Apartheid Did Not Die with Alan Lowery, he describes the extraordinary generosity of a […]
Reporting The World (UK)
‘Reporting The World’ features 15 of John Pilger’s documentaries as well as ‘The Outsiders’, a 1983 Channel 4 series of interviews including Martha Gellhorn, Wilfred Burchett, Jessica Mitford and Costa Gavras… Conversations with a Working ManDismantling a DreamAn Unfashionable TragedyA Nod and a WinkSmashing KidsThalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We ForgotVietnam: Still America’s WarMr. Nixon’s Secret LegacyThe […]
Documentaries That Changed The World (UK)
‘Documentaries That Changed The World’ features 12 of John Pilger’s films, including an interview at the 2006 Hay Festival… Vietnam: The Quiet MutinyYear Zero – The Silent Death of CambodiaBurp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold WarNicaragua: A Nation’s Right to SurviveDeath of a Nation: The Timor ConspiracyFlying the Flag, Arming the WorldInside Burma: […]
In The Name Of Justice (UK)
‘In The Name Of Justice’ features 12 of John Pilger’s documentaries… The MexicansStreet of JoyPyramid Lake is DyingA Faraway CountryDo You Remember Vietnam?Vietnam: The Last BattleThe Truth GameJapan Behind The MaskApartheid Did Not DieThe Last Dream: Heroes UnsungThe Last Dream: SecretsThe Last Dream: Other People’s Wars
Links
An A-Z of links to help you get informed and get active… A Al-Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage English-language site for the Qatar-based news service. AlterNet http://www.alternet.org AlterNet.org is a project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit rganization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. AlterNet’s online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and […]
Filmography
Filmography John Pilger began his film career in British television in 1970, starting with the ITV current affairs series ‘World in Action’. His first documentary, ‘The Quiet Mutiny’, is credited with disclosing to a worldwide audience the internal disintegration of the US army in Vietnam. Four decades on, he is still making challenging films for […]
“A DEEPLY FELT LOVE FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE” – THE WORLD REMEMBERS JOHN PILGER
There have been a wealth of tributes paid to John Pilger, most recently on the anniversary of his death by Joe Laurie of Consortium News who writes that “In his many extraordinary films, books and articles, Pilger filled in what corporate media purposely left out: the industrial-scale human casualties of governments that dare call themselves […]
THERE IS A WAR COMING SHROUDED IN PROPAGANDA. IT WILL INVOLVE US. SPEAK UP.
In this new essay, John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict. In 1935, the Congress of American Writers was held in New […]
