John Pilger
Emmy Award-winning Australian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and war correspondent whose unflinching work challenged power across six decades.
John Pilger - Personal Information
- Date of Birth: October 9, 1939
- Place of Birth: Sydney, Australia
- Date of Death: December 30, 2023
- Gender: Male
- Job Title: Director
- Crew Jobs: Writer, Director, Producer, Co-Producer, Thanks
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.
Selected Filmography
A selection of John Pilger's most notable documentary works spanning two decades of filmmaking.
- The Trust Fall: Julian Assange (2024) as Self
- The Dirty War on the NHS (2019)
- The Coming War on China (2016)
- Utopia (2013) as Himself
- The War You Don't See (2010)
- The War on Democracy (2007) as Self
- Lefties: A Lot Of Balls (2006) as Self
- Stealing a Nation (2004) as Himself
- Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
- Palestine Is Still the Issue (2003) as Self - Presenter
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