Movies: David Munro

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...

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. Stra...

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

1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised....

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...

1980. A report on political repression in Mexico....

1990. The plight of a people who have struggled to rebuild their stricken country....

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

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 ignore...

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

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...

1980. The effect of aid to Cambodia and the extent of the country's new-found stability....

“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...

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

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth....

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

1989. An examination of how the UN protected and revitalised the Khmer Rouge....

1999. An updated version of the 1994 film that exposed the betrayal of the East Timorese by the international community....

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 collu...

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 w...