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- DirectorJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerVeteran filmmaker John Pilger takes us through a history of threats to Britain's National Health Service ,from its 1948 founding by Labor through a privatizing push by Margaret Thatcher's bureaucrats, to challenges by new Conservatives.
- DirectorJohn PilgerStarsFranklin BlaisdellJames BradleyBruce CumingsFrom award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.
- 201625m7.5 (20)TV SpecialDirectorJohn PilgerStarsJulian AssangeJohn Pilger
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerJon AltmanPat AndersonExploring offenses practiced by popular media, big business, police forces and Governments helping the Australian 225 year campaign of genocide continue against Aboriginal Australians.
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerStuart EwenMelvin GoodmanThought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it.
- DirectorChris MartinJohn PilgerSean CrottyStarsJohn PilgerPhilip AgeeSalvador AllendeVenezuela, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, Salvador, Bolivia: people's struggle for democracy versus US imperialism in Latin America since the 1950s, backing coups and supporting dictatorships.
- DirectorJohn PilgerSean CrottyStarsJohn PilgerThis tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity' .
- DirectorSteve ConnellyJohn PilgerStarsJohn PilgerJohn BoltonReed BrodyA critical documentary about the war on terror since 9-11.
- DirectorTony StarkStarsJohn PilgerFatima Abed-RaboAmjad Abu LabanA documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has lasted for more than 50 years. Contains some interviews with the children in this conflict.
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsPramoedya Ananta ToerGeorge MonbiotDita SariThe myths of globalisation have been incorporated into much of our everyday language. "Thinking globally" and "the global economy" are part of a jargon that assumes we are all part of one big global village, where national borders and national identities no longer matter. But what is globalisation? And where is this global village? In 2001, John Pilger made 'The New Rulers of the World', a film exploring the impact of globalisation. It took Indonesia as the prime example, a country that the World Bank described as a 'model pupil' until its 'globalised' economy collapsed in 1998. Globalisation has not only made the world smaller. It has also made it interdependent. An investment decision made in London can spell unemployment for thousands in Indonesia, while a business decision taken in Tokyo can create thousands of new jobs for workers in north-east England. This might seem a very natural development if you live in a country like Britain, with its long international history as a trading nation and imperial power. Bringing the world closer together may throw up new opportunities for cultural and economic interaction, but it also exposes us to the negative aspects of life on a shrinking planet, whether it be the threat of global warming, the international traffic in women for sexual exploitation or the spread of AIDS throughout Africa and Asia.
- DirectorAlan LoweryJohn PilgerStarsFelicity ArbuthnotDenis HallidayJinan Ghalib HusseinJohn Pilger investigates the effects of sanctions on the Iraqi civilian population and reveals that the ten years of extraordinary isolation, enforced by Britain and the US and imposed by the United Nations, has resulted in a higher number of deaths compared with the WWII atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq highlights the misery caused to the people of Iraq by the illegal bombing campaign carried out by the UK and US in the nation's northern and southern 'no-fly zones'. The outcomes of these sanctions were that a large number of Iraqi citizens were delayed or denied access to medicine and drugs, along with medical supplies and equipment. This caused their cultural life, health and education to decline significantly, with the young and the poor coming off worst of all. Several members of the UN, including Assistant Secretary-General Dennis Halliday and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq Hans Von Sponeck, resigned as a result. Paying the Price exposes the chilling reason for the delays: that medical equipment and medicines could be used by the Saddam Hussein's regime to create 'weapons of mass destruction', a claim later proven to be false after the Second Gulf War. This was also the reason for the largely hidden bombing campaigns of the UK and US against the people of Iraq while Saddam Hussein and his associates lived in luxury under the protection of Western governments that were eager to keep him in power to protect their oil interests.
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsRobert CavanaghJohn HowardJacqui KatonaHow native Aborigines were and still are excluded in many ways from Australian society.
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsJohn Pilger
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerVirginia BottomleyHugh CudlippProgramme in which journalist John Pilger makes a tribute to the Daily Mirror newspaper. He traces the history of the tabloid, considering the influence of Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell and how the standard of journalism has dropped.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerDocumentary about the military ruling regime in Burma, its use of forced and child labour to build road and rail links, and how the participation of Western countries aid the system by investing in poorly run projects.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerDocumentary examining how Vietnam has fared since the end of the conflict with America twenty years ago. There is also a look at Hollywood distortion of the Vietnam War.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerDavid ClarkMichael CooleyThe British arms business and its implications in World politics.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerAlan ClarkJames DunnDocumentary of the events that occurred in the East Timor genocide during 1990-91.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn Pilger
- StarsJohn PilgerExplores how banks in the First World advance loans to Third World countries and its catastrophic effects on the lifestyles and well-being of the citizens in poorer countries.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerA year after warning of the dangers of a return by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia: Year Ten, John Pilger went back to the country still suffering from the effects of Pol Pot's tyranny and Western sanctions with director David Munro.
- StarsJohn PilgerA program dealing with a society of people living in third world conditions in a first world country.
- DirectorRod IversonStarsJulie ChristieKen LivingstoneDavid Munro
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsJohn PilgerVince ForresterMario FredericksJohn Pilger tells of their struggles of indigenous Australians as they were driven from their lands and he follows events throughout this century as they relate to Aboriginal rights.
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsJohn PilgerDonald M. KendallDonald KeoughThe rise of Coca-Cola and its duel with Pepsi-Cola: how these two giants aim to conquer the World.
- StarsJohn PilgerJohn Pilger's penetrating film which show the world-wide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race. When the two American atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, they were code-named Fat Man and Little Boy, and President Truman announced after the event: The experiment has been an overwhelming success.
- DirectorAlan LoweryStarsJohn PilgerXavier GorostiagaNéstor SánchezA historical account of Nicaragua in the context of US interventions in Latin America.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerJimmy CarterRosalynn CarterJohn Pilger reports on political repression in Mexico.
- StarsJohn PilgerCosta-GavrasSalman RushdieJohn Pilger interviews people who have lived their lives outside the system.
- DirectorDavid Munro
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerHenry KissingerRichard NixonDisturbing documentary, shot on site less than a year after the Khmer Rouge downfall, depicting the shocking situation and recent history of Cambodia.
- DirectorDavid MunroStarsJohn PilgerJohn Pilger, after reporting the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, returns in 1978 to take a look at the Vietnam of three years later and along with David Munro made this documentary.
- StarsJohn PilgerDemelza Val BakerWendy GillRespected journalist, John Pilger, takes a look at various themes including Vietnam and prisoners on remand.
- DirectorCharles DentonStarsJohn PilgerEmbedded documentary, shot on site during the Vietnam War, showing how young draftees are critical about that war.
- DirectorJohn IngramStarsJohn Pilger