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John Pilger (1939-2023)

Birthplace:
Sydney, Australia

Born:
October 9, 1939

Died:
December 30, 2023

Biography from TheMovieDB

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.

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Author:
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Co-Producer:
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

Director:
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1992  War By Other Means
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
2003  Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
2004  Stealing a Nation
2007  The War on Democracy
2010  The War You Don't See
2013  Utopia
2016  The Coming War on China
2019  The Dirty War on the NHS
????  Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

Presenter:
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1974  Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1992  War By Other Means
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
2001  The New Rulers of the World
2003  Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
2004  Stealing a Nation
2007  The War on Democracy
2010  The War You Don't See
2013  Utopia
2016  The Coming War on China
2019  The Dirty War on the NHS
????  Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

Producer:
1970  Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1974  Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1992  War By Other Means
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
1999  Welcome to Australia
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
2001  The New Rulers of the World
2003  Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
2004  Stealing a Nation
2007  The War on Democracy
2010  The War You Don't See
2013  Utopia
2016  The Coming War on China
2019  The Dirty War on the NHS
????  Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

Thanks:
1970  Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1974  Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1992  War By Other Means
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
1999  Welcome to Australia
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
2001  The New Rulers of the World
2003  Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
2004  Stealing a Nation
2007  The War on Democracy
2010  The War You Don't See
2013  Utopia
2016  The Coming War on China
2016  The Occupation of the American Mind
2019  The Dirty War on the NHS
2022  Ithaka
????  Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

Writer:
1970  Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny
1971  Conversations With a Working Man
1974  Guilty Until Proven Innocent
1976  Pilger in Australia
1979  Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia
1981  Heroes
1986  The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back
1990  Cambodia: The Betrayal
1992  War By Other Means
1994  Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
1994  Flying the Flag, Arming the World
1995  Vietnam: The Last Battle
1996  Inside Burma: Land of Fear
1997  Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
1998  Apartheid Did Not Die
1999  Welcome to Australia
2000  Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
2001  The New Rulers of the World
2003  Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror
2003  Palestine Is Still the Issue
2004  Stealing a Nation
2007  The War on Democracy
2010  The War You Don't See
2013  Utopia
2016  The Coming War on China
2016  The Occupation of the American Mind
2019  The Dirty War on the NHS
2022  Ithaka
????  Health as a Luxury: When Greed Takes over Health Systems

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