The War You Don't See

United Kingdom

2010

97 Min

Color

1.78:1

English

Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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CAST John Pilger, Rageh Omaar, Dan Rather, David Rose, Fran Unsworth, David Mannion, Julian Assange

SOUND Claire Ellis, George Foulgham, Nicholas Ashe

Synopsis

This is John Pilger’s second major film for the cinema, after his 2006 award winning The War on Democracy. In this film John investigates how the media has reported war, from the First World War to the present day. The film is being made with John’s long time collaborator Alan Lowery, who worked with him on The New Rulers of the World (2001), Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq (2000) and The Last Dream (1988). In an extraordinary alliance of TV and cinema, The War You Don’t See opened in the UK mid-December 2010. Following its premiere at the Barbican, the first Pilger film since 2007 was screened nationwide in cinemas on the 13th December including a live satellite Q&A. The film was broadcast on ITV1 the following day. —Dartmouth Films

Director

John Pilger

John Richard Pilger (born 9 October 1939) is an Australian journalist and documentary maker, based in London. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US. Noam Chomsky said of Pilger: “John Pilger’s work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration.” In Breaking the Silence: The Television Reporting of John Pilger, his appraisal of the journalist’s documentaries, Anthony Hayward wrote, “For more than a generation, he has been an ever stronger voice for those without a voice and a thorn in the side of authority, the Establishment. His work, particularly his television documentaries, has also made him rare in being a journalist who is universally known, a champion of those for whom he fights and the scourge of politicians and others whose actions he exposes. —Wikipedia… read more