Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3113 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-02-04
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
John Pilger’s documentaries aren’t a place to find sensationalism, cheap tactics or irrelevancies. As The War On Democracy demonstrates, Pilger instead takes a deathly serious subject, and while his work isn’t bereft of politic leanings, presents his findings to his audience in a grown up, intelligent manner.

In The War On Democracy, he looks at the political tactics of America over the past decades, homing in on Latin America and the impact that ongoing strategic American political decisions have had. Throughout the course of the documentary, Pilger gets access to relevant subjects, and charts the backlash in Latin America too.

The subject matter of The War On Democracy is clearly emotive, and it’s inevitable perhaps that Pilger’s stance isn’t wholly impartial. His film, however, is very strong. Directed by Chris Martin, it’s an engrossing, studiously put-together picture, that can’t help but emote a reaction from those who sit through it. One or two of the interviewees, in particular, are all but certain to provoke.

As a piece of filmmaking, The War On Democracy continues the rich vein of quality that the documentary genre has been enjoying over the past few years. That it’s also likely to wind its audience up one way or the other is also, surely, an even stronger reason to recommend it. --Jon Foster

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant piece of work
John Pilger has produced many outstanding and disturbing investigative films and "War On Democracy" stunningly and excrutiatingly exposes the effects of American hegemony in Latin America and how Latin America is fighting back against corporatocracy. It is a "must watch" piece of investigative journalism. It will not surprise you to learn that this DVD, together with "Documentaries That Changed The World", also by John Pilger, is not available in the United States as it it doesn't represent their government's current "interests", which seems to have recently included the incremental silencing of dissenting voices and control of the media. I look forward to a John Pilger investigation into the Middle East. If you would like to read more of the plight of Latin America, I can also recommend "The Secret History Of The American Empire" - John Perkins, which can also be found on Amazon.

IDEA's POWER
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come."
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Americans! You can't buy this in the U.S.! Why??
What does American corporate media not want you to know? More than ever before we need spirited debate about our country's actions around the world, especially those being done in secret by the U.S. government and private U.S. contractors. Few American sources delve into the issues that Pilger refuses to drop. He's been hot on the trail of political and corporate greed for 40 years. We should listen to him. Because those debates cannot happen if we're ignorant of the facts.