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John Pilger
John Richard Pilger (9 October 1939 – 30 December 2023) was an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. Based mostly in the UK since 1962, John Pilger has been an internationally influential investigative reporter, a strong critic of Australian, British and American foreign policy since his early reporting days in Vietnam, and has also condemned official treatment of Indigenous Australians. Twice winner of Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, he has won many other awards for his documentaries on foreign affairs and culture. He was also a cherished ZFriend.
The great Chilean balladeer Victor Jara, who was tortured to death by the regime of General Pinochet 33 years ago, wrote a…
The political documentary, that most powerful and subversive medium, is said to be enjoying a renaissance on both sides of the Atlantic.…
When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing…
My first documentary for television was The Quiet Mutiny, made in 1970 for Granada. It was an unusual film, laced with irony…
In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his ‘secret…
If the alleged plot to attack airliners flying from London is true – remember the lies that led to the invasion of…
The National Museum of American History is part of the celebrated Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Surrounded by mock Graeco-Roman edifices with…
In my 1994 film Death of a Nation there is a scene on board an aircraft flying between northern Australia and the…
Arthur Miller wrote, “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state…