Directing

David Munro

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Eclipse poster
6.3

A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.

Eclipse

1977

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NR

In writer David Yallop began a hunt for the world's most wanted man, Carlos the Jackal. This film follows Yallop from the beginning of his long and perilous quest to the climax of an eventual meeting with Carlos in the Middle East. It uncovers collusion, conspiracy and terrorism to find the reality behind the myth.

To The Ends of the Earth – The Hunt for the Jackal

1993

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Britain is still a world leader. Indeed it has twenty percent of a world market, second only to the United States. And this industry is considered so important by the government that it consumes almost half of all research and development funds. Strangely it produces not consumer goods that people want, but machines that hardly any of us use or want to use. Moreover, for all its’ preeminence, its’ future is uncertain and depends to a large degree on secret deals with some of the most corrupt and brutal regimes on Earth. One of the biggest manufacturing industries in Britain at the close of the century is ARMS. John Pilger and David Munro look behind the political rhetoric and discover the world of international arms dealing.

Flying the Flag, Arming the World

1994

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4.0

A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge

Knots

1975

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4.0

A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge

Knots

1975

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7.8

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

1979

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia poster
7.8

John Pilger vividly reveals the brutality and murderous political ambitions of the Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge totalitarian regime which bought genocide and despair to the people of Cambodia while neighboring countries, including Australia, shamefully ignored the immense human suffering and unspeakable crimes that bloodied this once beautiful country.

Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

1979

Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy poster
7.0

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

1994

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Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

Do You Remember Vietnam

1978

Do You Remember Vietnam poster
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Three years after the fall of Saigon, Pilger returns to examine the new regime

Do You Remember Vietnam

1978

War By Other Means poster
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War By Other Means is a 1992 television documentary by John Pilger and David Munro concerning loans to developing countries from the World Bank which cause them to pay more interest then they ever receive in international aid ("debt as a weapon"). It also analyses Structural Adjustment Programs, which are proclaimed to enable countries to compete in the global economy, but have the effect of lowering wages which results in the transfer of wealth from poor to rich. It features Dr. Susan George, author of The Debt Boomerang.

War By Other Means

1992

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero poster
10.0

John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

1993

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero poster
10.0

John Pilger shows how the UN has allowed the Khmer Rouge to grow stronger.

Cambodia: Return to Year Zero

1993

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7.0

“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship seized power, the assault on its people all but forgotten. To tell their story, we had to go undercover. What we found was a land of fear.”

Inside Burma: Land of Fear

1996

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7.0

“On the surface, everything appears serene... But Burma is also a secret country, isolated for the past 34 years since a brutal dictatorship seized power, the assault on its people all but forgotten. To tell their story, we had to go undercover. What we found was a land of fear.”

Inside Burma: Land of Fear

1996

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update) poster
8.0

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

1989

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update) poster
8.0

1989. The British government and the UN react to the outcry over the situation in Cambodia.

Cambodia: Year Ten (Update)

1989

Vietnam: The Last Battle poster
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In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top helicopter pad. He was made Journalist of the Year and International Reporter of the Year for his reporting of the Vietnam War over a period of almost ten years. In 1995’s ‘Vietnam: The Last Battle’, Pilger returns to Vietnam to review those twenty years, seeking to rescue something of Vietnamese past and present from Hollywood images which pitied the invader while overshadowing one of the most epic struggles of the 20th century. And with the embargo on the country now lifted by President Clinton, he describes Vietnam's latest battle against the economic plunder of the country by the United States and other powerful countries

Vietnam: The Last Battle

1995

Vietnam: The Last Battle poster
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In 1975, John Pilger reported the end of the Vietnam War from the American Embassy in Saigon, where the last American troops fled from the roof-top helicopter pad. He was made Journalist of the Year and International Reporter of the Year for his reporting of the Vietnam War over a period of almost ten years. In 1995’s ‘Vietnam: The Last Battle’, Pilger returns to Vietnam to review those twenty years, seeking to rescue something of Vietnamese past and present from Hollywood images which pitied the invader while overshadowing one of the most epic struggles of the 20th century. And with the embargo on the country now lifted by President Clinton, he describes Vietnam's latest battle against the economic plunder of the country by the United States and other powerful countries

Vietnam: The Last Battle

1995

Heroes poster
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1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.

Heroes

1981

Heroes poster
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1981. The shabby treatment of returning combat soldiers from Vietnam is investigated.

Heroes

1981

The Timor Conspiracy (Update) poster
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1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

1999

The Timor Conspiracy (Update) poster
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1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community.

The Timor Conspiracy (Update)

1999

Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect poster
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This 1997 film considers the downfall of the Daily Mirror, the newspaper Pilger worked on for 23 years: a popular, intelligent tabloid once read by a quarter of the British population and which genuinely reflected its readers' concerns. Pilger asks why the qualities seen in the paper prior to the 1970s are no longer apparent, examining the contraction of the press following the Sun's symbolic move to Wapping, coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, the fate of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, and the stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch.

Breaking The Mirror: The Murdoch Effect

1997