Screenplay: John Pilger

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Pilger. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The War You Don't See

2010 · Documentary · 97 min. · United Kingdom

7.6

540 votes

7.6

540 votes

The War On Democracy

2007 · Documentary · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Pilger · Christopher Martin

Cast John Pilger

Plot Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years, and how these same policies are now being...

7.6

650 votes

7.6

650 votes

The Coming War on China

2016 · Documentary · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Pilger

Plot 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, are on the road to...

7.0

52 votes

7.0

52 votes

The Dirty War on the National Health Service

2019 · Documentary · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Pilger

Cast John Pilger

Plot Britain's National Health Service, the NHS, was the world's first universal public health service. Designed to help millions of people, the NHS today is under threat of being sold off...

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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

1994 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Munro

Cast John Pilger

Plot On December 7, 1975 Indonesia secretly - but with the complicity of the Western powers including the US, the UK, and Australia - invaded the small nation of East Timor....

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Palestine Is Still the Issue (TV)

2003 · Documentary · 53 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Stark

Plot Pilger returns to the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza where he filmed a documentary with the same title in 1977. He believes the basic problems are unchanged:...

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The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (TV)

1986 · Documentary · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Lowery

Cast John Pilger

Plot John 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.

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Stealing a Nation (TV)

2004 · Documentary · 56 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Pilger

Cast John Pilger

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Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

1979 · Documentary · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Pilger · David Munro

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