The War You Don't See DVD, 2010

Following his award-winning documentary The War on Democracy, John Pilger’s new film is a powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war. The War You Don’t See traces the history of ‘embedded’ and independent reporting from the carnage of World War I to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan. As weapons and propaganda are ever more sophisticated, the very nature of war has developed into an ‘electronic battlefield.’ But who is the real enemy today? John Pilger asks 'Do journalists beat the drums of war, then normalise the unthinkable? ... it is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it.'

The film also includes an interview with Julian Assange. Says Pilger, 'I asked Assange how WikiLeaks dealt with the draconian secrecy laws for which Britain is famous. "Well," he said, "when we look at the Official Secrets Act labelled documents, we see a statement that it is an offence to retain the information and it is an offence to destroy the information, so the only possible outcome is that we have to publish the information."'

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