John Pilger - The War You Don’t See - Pt. 7_7

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. John Pilger says in the film: "We journalists... have to be brave enough to defy those who seek our collusion in selling their latest bloody adventure in someone else's country... That means always challenging the official story, however patriotic that story may appear, however seductive and insidious it is. For propaganda relies on us in the media to aim its deceptions not at a far away country but at you at home... In this age of endless imperial war, the lives of countless men, women and children depend on the truth or their blood is on us... Those whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power." agadem.co.uk

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