John Pilger

Directing Oct 9, 1939 Dec 30, 2023 (aged 84) Sydney, Australia

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.

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John Pilger

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The War on Democracy

The War You Don't See

The Coming War on China

Stealing a Nation

Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror

Utopia

Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

The New Rulers of the World

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Palestine Is Still the Issue

Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War

The Dirty War on the NHS

World in Action

The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

Inside Burma: Land of Fear

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

Apartheid Did Not Die

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

Cambodia: The Betrayal

Cambodia: Year Ten

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