John Pilger
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
57
Gender
Male
Birthday
1939-10-09
Day of death
2023-12-30 (84 years old)
Place of Birth
Sydney, Australia
John Pilger
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
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
The Mexicans
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
The War on Democracy
Nobody's Children
The Most Powerful Politician in America
Smashing Kids
Utopia
The New Rulers of the World
An Unjustifiable Risk
Palestine Is Still the Issue
Israel: After the Earthquake
Do You Remember Vietnam
Burp! Pepsi v. Coke in the Ice-Cold War
Heroes
Conversations With a Working Man
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
The Coming War on China
An Unfashionable Tragedy
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Street of Joy
Pilger in Australia
Lefties: A Lot Of Balls
Vietnam: Still America's War
Cambodia: The Betrayal
Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot
Stealing a Nation
The War You Don't See
A Nod and a Wink
Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy
The Trust Fall: Julian Assange
A Faraway Country
Zap!! The Weapon Is Food
Dismantling a Dream
The Truth Game
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Cambodia: Year Ten
Cambodia: Year One
Japan Behind the Mask
The Timor Conspiracy (Update)
War By Other Means
Inside Burma: Land of Fear
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
Cambodia: Return to Year Zero
Pyramid Lake Is Dying
Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)
Vietnam: The Last Battle
The Dirty War on the NHS
Welcome to Australia
One British Family
To Know Us Is To Love Us
Flying the Flag, Arming the World
Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime
Apartheid Did Not Die
Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive
