John Pilger Heroes (Films of John Pilger 2015 Edition) - 20-DVD Box Set ( Documentaries That Changed The World / John Pilger - In The Name Of Justice / Reporting The World / Behind the Facades / Breaking The Mirror / The War On Democracy / The War You Don't See / Utopia )

John Pilger Heroes (Films of John Pilger 2015 Edition) - 20-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Documentaries That Changed The World / John Pilger - In The Name Of Justice / Reporting The World / Behind the Facades / Breaking The Mirror / The War On Democracy / The War You Don't See / Utopia
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
3070 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1997 - 2013 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:

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 20-disc set brings together more than four decades of landmark journalism and now features Pilger's two latest films: The War You Don't See and Utopia.

Documentaries That Changed The World - John Pilger (2006)
Twelve documentaries from the campaigning journalist John Pilger, exposing the West's continued exploitation of the Third World, and criticising the military interventions of western governments, from Cambodia to Iraq. The documentaries included are: 'Year Zero - The Silent Death of Cambodia'; 'Nicaragua - A Nation's Right to Survive'; 'Burp! Pepsi vs Coke in the Ice Cold War'; 'Flying the Flag - Arming the World'; 'Vietnam - The Quiet Mutiny'; Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy'; 'Inside Burma - Land of Fear'; 'Welcome to Australia'; 'Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq'; 'Palestine is Still the Issue'; 'Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror'; and 'Stealing a Nation'. Also included is interview footage with Pilger from the 2006 Guardian Hay Literary Festival.
John Pilger - In The Name Of Justice (2007)
Collection of classic documentaries made over the years by the award-winning journalist. Specialising in drawing attention to issues that our leaders would rather keep hidden, Pilger charts the plight of people around the globe. His documentaries have centred on the major social and political issues of the past 40 years, and this collection includes films on Vietnam, The Cold War, Apartheid, and some observations on his homeland, Australia.
John Pilger: Reporting The World (2008)
Collection of ground-breaking documentaries from award-winning journalist, John Pilger. Specialising in drawing attention to issues that our leaders would rather keep hidden, Pilger charts the plight of people around the globe. His documentaries have centred on the major social and political issues of the past 40 years. This collection features 15 documentaries in total.
Behind the Facades: The Films of John Pilger (2008)
12 documentaries from the campaigning journalist John Pilger, exposing the West's continued exploitation of the Third World, criticising the military interventions of western governments, and attacking the influence and power of multinational corporations. The documentaries included are: 'To Know Us Is to Love Us', 'Pilger in Australia', 'The Search for Truth in Wartime', 'The Timor Conspiracy', 'An Unjustifiable Risk', 'Cambodia: Year One', 'Cambodia: Year Ten', 'Cambodia: Year Ten Update', 'War By Other Means', 'Cambodia: The Betrayal', 'Cambodia: Return to Year Zero' and 'The New Rulers of the World'.
John Pilger: Breaking The Mirror (1997)
Recipient of multiple awards including the UN Media Peace Prize John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and factual film-maker who began his career in his native Australia before moving to London. He has been a foreign correspondent and frontline war reporter since 1967 and is a regular contributor to a wide range of international broadcast and print media. A passionate critic of foreign military and economic ventures by Western governments, Pilger's work uncovers shocking truths about the political forces that manifest themselves worldwide; leaving no stone unturned, he treads where many journalists fear to go. Originally broadcast in 1997, this film considers the downfall of 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 Daily Mirror 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.
The War On Democracy (2008)
Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years, and how these same policies are now being used in the Middle East.
John Pilger - The War You Don't See (2010)
Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy, John Pilger's new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war. The War You Don't See traces the history of 'embedded' and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an 'electronic battlefield'. But who is the real enemy today?
Utopia - John Pilger (2013)
Following his hard-hitting documentary The War You Don't See, John Pilger's new film is a rare and powerful insight into a secret Australia and breaks what amounts to a national silence about the indigenous first people - the oldest, most enduring presence on Earth. An epic film in its production, scope and revelations, Utopia reveals that apartheid is deep within Australia's past and present and that Aboriginal people are still living in abject poverty and Third World conditions, with a low life expectancy and disproportionately high rate of deaths in police custody. Starting his career 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.

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.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 19 April, 2016.