John Pilger Heroes Films 1970 - 2007 - 16-DVD Box Set ( The War on Democracy / Stealing a Nation / Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror / Arena / The Whole Shebang / Palestine Is Still the Issue / Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq / Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy )

John Pilger Heroes Films 1970 - 2007 - 16-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The War on Democracy / Stealing a Nation / Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror / Arena / The Whole Shebang / Palestine Is Still the Issue / Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq / Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
2538 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1971 - 200 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christopher Martin
John Pilger
Sean Crotty
Steve Connelly
Tony Stark
David Munro
Alan Lowery
Rod Iverson
Charles Denton

Written By:
John Pilger

Actors:
John Pilger ..... Himself
John Pilger ..... Himself - Reporter
John Pilger ..... Reporter
Paul McCartney ..... Himself / ... (3 episodes, 1985-1998)
Lindsay Duncan ..... Herself / ... (3 episodes, 1982-2002)
Eileen Atkins ..... Herself (3 episodes, 1985-2008)
Michael Billington ..... Himself (3 episodes, 2002-2008)
Ian McKellen ..... Himself / ... (2 episodes, 1993-2004)
Indira Varma ..... Gila / ... (2 episodes, 2002)
Max Bygraves ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1990-2001)
Eric Sykes ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1990-2001)
Mickie Most ..... Himself / ... (2 episodes, 1991)
David Attenborough ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1993-2003)
Bryan Forbes ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1995-2003)
Marianne Faithfull ..... Herself (2 episodes, 1998)
Jude Law ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1998)
George Martin ..... Himself (2 episodes, 1998)
Peter Hall ..... Himself (2 episodes, 2002-2008)
Simon Callow ..... Himself (2 episodes, 2003-2008)
Nigel Williams ..... Himself / ... (2 episodes, 2004-2005)
Noam Chomsky ..... Himself
Richard Holloway ..... Himself
Arthur Kleinman ..... Himself
Aline Mowat ..... Narrator
Kay Toombs ..... Herself
Felicity Arbuthnot ..... Herself
Dennis Halliday ..... Himself
Dr. Jinan Ghalib Hussein ..... Himself
Scott Ritter ..... Himself
Doug Rokke ..... Himself
James Rubin ..... Himself
Karol Sikora ..... Himself
Peter van Walsum ..... Himself
Hans von Sponeck ..... Himself
John Pilger ..... Host / Interviewer
Alan Clark ..... Himself (former British Defence Minister)
James Dunn ..... Himself (former Australian consul in East Timor)
Gareth Evans ..... Himself (Australian Foreign Affairs Minister)
Abel Guterres ..... Himself (Timorese exile)
José Ramos Horta ..... Himself (Timorese Foreign Minister, in exile) (also archive footage)
C. Philip Liechty ..... Himself (senior CIA officer in Indonesia)
Konis Santana ..... Himself (Commander, Timorese resistance)
Shirley Shackleton ..... Herself (wife of murdered reporter)
Mário Soares ..... Himself (President of Portugal) (as Dr. Mario Soares)
Sir Alan Thomas ..... Himself (head, British Defence Sales)
Nugroho Wisnumurti ..... Himself (Indonesian ambassador to UN)
Richard Woolcott ..... Himself (former Australian ambassador to Indonesia)
David Dimbleby ..... Himself - Chairman (553 episodes, 1994-2009)
Robin Day ..... Himself - Chairman (297 episodes, 1979-1989)
John Pilger ..... Presenter
Julie Christie ..... Narrator
Ken Livingstone ..... Himself
David Munro ..... Himself
John Pilger ..... Reporter Himself

Synopsis:

This is the first definitive collection of ground-breaking documentaries from John Pilger's career as a world renowned film-maker, author and investigative journalist. The title, Heroes, is taken from one of his films and his seminal book (1986), which celebrates the struggles and heroism of ordinary people all over the world.

Beginning as a journalist in his native Australia before moving to London, John Pilger has been the recipient of multiple awards, including Britain's highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States. He has been a foreign correspondent and frontline war reporter, and is a regular contributor to international media, including the ITV Network, the Guardian and the New Statesman. An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger's humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go.

This 16-disc set brings together almost four decades of landmark journalism, including, for the first time, The Outsiders, Pilger's Channel 4 series of interviews, along with the award-winning cinema film The War on Democracy and an updated edition of Anthony Hayward's filmography of Pilger's work.

Special Features:

* The War on Democracy - John Pilger's latest film, made especially for cinema, inverts the propaganda of the "war on terror" and reveals that Washington is actually waging a war on democracy around the world, with Latin America as both the historical model and an inspirational source of democratic resistance.
* All nine films of The Outsiders, including rare interviews with Martha Gellhorn, Wilfred Burchett, Jessica Mitford and Costa Gavras.
* Breaking the Silence: the television reporting of John Pilger a specially updated edition of Anthony Hayward's book on John Pilger's body of work.
* Introductory booklet on John Pilger's films written by the historian Mark Curtis.
* John Pilger in conversation with Anthony Hayward at the Guardian Hay Literary Festival 2006.

Recipient of multiple awards, including the UN Media Peace Prize, John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and respected factual film-maker, who began his career in his native Australia, before moving to London. Drawing extensively on eye-witness testimony, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter since 1967 and in the UK he is a regular contributor to a wide range of international broadcast and print media including the New Statesman, ITV, The Guardian and American and European newspapers.

The War on Democracy (2007)
Stealing a Nation (2004)
Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
Arena (1975)
The Whole Shebang (2002)
Palestine Is Still the Issue (2002)
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000)
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy (1994)
Question Time (1979)
The Last Dreams (1988)
Agent Orange: Policy of Poison (1987)
The Secret Country (1986)
The Secret Country: The First Australians Fight Back (1986)
Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia (1979)
Do You Remember Vietnam (1978)
The Quiet Mutiny (1971)

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 26 October, 2009.