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

  • The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

    The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back

  • To Know Us Is To Love Us

    To Know Us Is To Love Us

  • The War on Democracy

    The War on Democracy

  • Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

    Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

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

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

  • The Most Powerful Politician in America

    The Most Powerful Politician in America

  • Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

    Thalidomide: The Ninety-Eight We Forgot

  • The Coming War on China

    The Coming War on China

  • Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

    Zap!! The Weapon Is Food

  • Inside Burma: Land of Fear

    Inside Burma: Land of Fear

  • Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

    Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

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

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

  • Vietnam: Still America's War

    Vietnam: Still America's War

  • Palestine Is Still the Issue

    Palestine Is Still the Issue

  • Conversations With a Working Man

    Conversations With a Working Man

  • The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

    The Trust Fall: Julian Assange

  • Pyramid Lake Is Dying

    Pyramid Lake Is Dying

  • Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

    Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

  • Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

    Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

  • Street of Joy

    Street of Joy

  • Israel: After the Earthquake

    Israel: After the Earthquake

  • The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

    The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

  • Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

    Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny

  • Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

    Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

  • The Dirty War on the NHS

    The Dirty War on the NHS

  • Heroes

    Heroes

  • Japan Behind the Mask

    Japan Behind the Mask

  • Do You Remember Vietnam

    Do You Remember Vietnam

  • A Nod and a Wink

    A Nod and a Wink

  • Cambodia: Year One

    Cambodia: Year One

  • Welcome to Australia

    Welcome to Australia

  • Pilger in Australia

    Pilger in Australia

  • The New Rulers of the World

    The New Rulers of the World

  • The War You Don't See

    The War You Don't See

  • Cambodia: Year Ten

    Cambodia: Year Ten

  • Cambodia: The Betrayal

    Cambodia: The Betrayal

  • The Truth Game

    The Truth Game

  • Nobody's Children

    Nobody's Children

  • A Faraway Country

    A Faraway Country

  • Dismantling a Dream

    Dismantling a Dream

  • One British Family

    One British Family

  • Utopia

    Utopia

  • Stealing a Nation

    Stealing a Nation

  • War By Other Means

    War By Other Means

  • The Mexicans

    The Mexicans

  • Apartheid Did Not Die

    Apartheid Did Not Die

  • Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

    Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

  • Flying the Flag, Arming the World

    Flying the Flag, Arming the World

  • Guilty Until Proven Innocent

    Guilty Until Proven Innocent

  • Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

    Lefties: A Lot Of Balls

  • Smashing Kids

    Smashing Kids

  • Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

    Nicaragua: A Nation's Right to Survive

  • An Unfashionable Tragedy

    An Unfashionable Tragedy

  • Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

    Mr Nixon's Secret Legacy

  • Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

    Frontline: The Search for Truth in Wartime

  • An Unjustifiable Risk

    An Unjustifiable Risk

  • Vietnam: The Last Battle

    Vietnam: The Last Battle