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, & attacking the influence & 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' & ' The New Rulers of the World'. ...

Twelve documentaries from the campaigning journalist John Pilger, exposing the West's continued exploitation of the Third World, & 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 & Lies in the War on Terror'; & ' Stealing a Nation'. Also included is interview footage with Pilger from the 2006 Guardian Hay Literary Festival.





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Definitive 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 oppressed peoples around the globe. His documentaries, scathing attacks on the injustices of the day, have centred on the major social & political issues of the past 40 years. ...

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 & political issues of the past 40 years, & this collection

Includes:: films on Vietnam, The Cold War, Apartheid, & some observations on his homel&, Australia.

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An exuberant biography of John Piper, one of the best loved & capacious English artists, & his wife the librettist Myfanwy Piper, friend of & collaborator with Benjamin Britten. Together they were at the heart of art, architecture, opera, & the reshaping of the perception of ' Englishness' in the mid-20th century. ...

An exuberant biography of John Piper, one of the best loved & most capacious English artists, & his wife the librettist Myfanwy Piper, friend of & collaborator with Benjamin Britten. Together they were at the heart of art, architecture, opera, & the reshaping of the perception of ' Englishness' in the mid-20th century. ...

John Q Archibald (Denzel Washington) is a Chicago factory worker struggling to make ends meet. When his son Michael is rushed to hospital after having a seizure at a baseball game, the doctors say the boy must receive a heart transplant as soon as possible. Lacking the necessary health insurance to cover the operation, John has no choice but to take the chief surgeon hostage, barricade himself in the emergency room, & demand that his son's name be put on a donor-recipient list. As the police gather outside & hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) attempts to diffuse the situation, the media begin an in-depth coverage of the siege & in the process turn John into a modern-day folk hero. ...