John Pilger  

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John Richard Pilger (Template:IPAc-en; born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962.

Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven by an imperialist and colonialist agenda. Pilger has also criticised his native country's treatment of Indigenous Australians. He first drew international attention for his reports on the Cambodian genocide.

His career as a documentary film maker began with The Quiet Mutiny (1970), made during one of his visits to Vietnam, and has continued with over 50 documentaries since. Other works in this form include Year Zero (1979), about the aftermath of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia, and Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1993). His many documentary films on indigenous Australians include The Secret Country (1985) and Utopia (2013). In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.

Bibliography

Books

• The Last Day (1975)
• Aftermath: The Struggles of Cambodia and Vietnam (1981)
• The Outsiders (with Michael Coren, 1984)
• Heroes (1986), Template:ISBN (2001)
• A Secret Country (1989)
• Distant Voices (1992 and 1994)
• Hidden Agendas (1998)
• Reporting the World: John Pilger's Great Eyewitness Photographers (2001)
• The New Rulers of the World (2002; 4th ed. 2016)
• Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs (ed.) Cape (2004)
• Freedom Next Time (2006)

Plays

• The Last Day (1983)

Documentaries

• World in Action
  • "The Quiet Mutiny" (1970)
• Conversations With a Working Man (1971)
• Palestine Is Still The Issue (Part 1) (1974)
• Vietnam: Still America's War (1974)
• Guilty Until Proven Innocent (John Pilger) (1974)
• Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot (1974)
• The Most Powerful Politician in America (1974)
• One British Family (1974)
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  • "An Unfashionable Tragedy" (1975)
  • "Nobody's Children" (1975)
  • "Zap-The Weapon is Food" (1976)
  • "Pyramid Lake is Dying" (1976)
  • "Street of Joy" (1976)
  • "A Faraway Country" (1977)
• Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy (1975)
• Smashing Kids] (1975)
• To Know Us Is To Love Us (1975)
• A Nod & A Wink (1975)
• Pilger in Australia (1976)
• Dismantling A Dream (1977)
• An Unjustifiable Risk (1977)
• The Selling of the Sea (1978)
• Do You Remember Vietnam (1978)
• Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
• The Mexicans (1980)
• Cambodia: Year One (1980)
• Heroes (1980)
• Island of Dreams (John Pilger)(1981)
• In Search of Truth in Wartime (1983)

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• Nicaragua. A Nations Right to Survive (1983)
• The Outsiders (series, 1983)
• The Truth Game (1983)
• Burp! Pepsi V Coke in the Ice Cold War (1984)
• The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1985)
• Japan Behind the Mask (1987)
• The Last Dream (1988)
  • "Heroes unsung"
  • "Secrets"
  • "Other People's Wars"
• Cambodia: Year Ten (1989)
• Cambodia, the Betrayal (1990)
• War By Other Means (1992)
• Cambodia: Return to Year Zero (1993)
• Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
• Flying the Flag, Arming the World (1994)
• Vietnam: The Last Battle (1995)
• Inside Burma: Land of Fear (1996)
• Breaking the Mirror – The Murdoch Effect (1997)
• Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)
• Welcome to Australia (1999)
• Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)
• The New Rulers of the World (2001)
• Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002)
• Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
• Stealing a Nation (2004)
• The War on Democracy (2007)
• The War You Don't See (2010)
• Utopia (2013)
• The Coming War on China (2016)
• The Dirty War on the NHS (2019)