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The Coming War [DVD]

John Pilger (Director) Rated: To Be Announced Format: DVD
3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
IMDb7.0/10.0
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Format PAL
Contributor John Pilger
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 51 minutes
Colour Colour

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This is John Pilger’s 60th documentary film. The recipient of multiple awards, including Britain’s highest award for journalism, twice, and television academy awards in both the UK and the United States, Pilger has been a foreign correspondent and a frontline war reporter. An incisive and rare critic of Western economic and military power, Pilger’s humane eyewitness reporting has been described as a unique presence on British television that explores where others dare not go.

John Pilger’s new film is his most urgent work to date and reveals what the news does not.

The United States and China may well be on the road to war – and with a noose of US bases now encircling the world’s newest superpower, nuclear war is not only imaginable but a nightmarish prospect. The Coming War on China is both a warning and an inspiring story of people’s resistance to war and the occupation of their countries.

Filmed over two years across four potential flashpoints, The Coming War returns Pilger to Asia, where his most renowned work has been set; like his landmark Cambodia Year Zero, this film breaks a silence. With eyewitness interviews and rare archive footage, it tells the secret history of an entire nation declared ‘experimental’ in the nuclear age.

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  • Rated ‏ : ‎ To Be Announced
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19 x 13.6 x 1.2 cm; 40 g
  • Director ‏ : ‎ John Pilger
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ PAL
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 51 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ 5 Dec. 2016
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 101 Films
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N085UV0
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer reviews:
    3.7 3.7 out of 5 stars 97 ratings

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Starbuck
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2020
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Very interesting and I learnt quite a few historical facts that I had not known about before. World history fascinates me.

This documentary does make for disturbing viewing in certain respects BUT the current virus crisis and the impending planetary enviromental collapse is far more immediate and scary than the thought of a, lets face it, pointless war. A nuclear exchange between any countries will devastate both the attacker and the defender and every other country and living being on this little world. But a virus might just do the job far more thoroughly and completely long before that happens and all this sabre rattling will of been for nothing.

I am disturbed and frightened and I do not live in China. Anyone living inside China or near that ring of "defenses" must be terrified.
It would be far better to spend those trillions on creating a better World for everyone rather than destroying it in the name of.... (fill in the justification of your choice here).

It saddens me that as a race we are still no better than savages but we have the potential to do many great and wonderful things that are never realised and we remain hellbent on our own extinction by passive means or overt action.
However most of us just want to live a reasonable, peaceful life...
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Billersk
5.0 out of 5 stars Pilger tells it like it is
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 March 2024
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The late John Pilger was a superb investigative journalist and this film will open people's eyes about the real situation in the far east. A must watch that explains the reasons why WW3 looks inevitable due to current policy trends.
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Derrick
2.0 out of 5 stars A missed opportunity
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2018
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John Pilger used to be a searing, powerful journalist, but I fear those days are long gone. The growing conflict between China and the USA is arguably the most dangerous threat to world peace and is not well-served by Western journalism. After this documentary, that continues to be the case. Instead of a balanced portrayal of hugely complex political, but mainly economic forces pushing these super-powers into conflict, we get tired "US-bashing" from Pilger, blaming everything on the Dr Strangelove/military-industrial complex in the US.

This is flabby and rambling. The first 45 minutes focus on the Bikini atoll nuclear test and the desperate plight of the Marshall Islanders. A tragic story worthy of telling, John, but of very marginal relevance to this story. There are substantive sections on US base development in Okinawa and South Korea which illustrate the ring of military bases around China; clearly more relevant. There is much talk of the US's renewed expenditure on nuclear weapons; again very relevant.

But there is nothing on China's growing military spending. Nothing on China's development in Africa which mirrors and threatens Western initiatives there. There is little mention of the Spratly Islands and nothing of Taiwan at all.
There are three interviews with Chinese commentators; all unofficial and none are challenged.

This is a complex situation and the mainstream narrative in the West is a very one-sided one. Here was an opportunity to present a much more intelligent, balanced narrative which would have been very feasible in one hour 52 minutes. Or at least would have been by a sharp journalist on the top of his game. Instead we get tired ranting which is perhaps even less objective than what we are used to.
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Peter
4.0 out of 5 stars Thought provoking as usual from Pilger
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2016
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The documentary is yet again a perfect piece of journalism from Australian who never stopped campaigning for stories close to his heart.
This film is topical as China becomes focus of being not just an economic power but military one in Asia-Pacific theatre.
Worth watching even if you find yourself in conflict with Pilger's views at the end of it.
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pacca
1.0 out of 5 stars A crime against journalism: intellectually and ethically distended to the point of collapse
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2020
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The premise was promising. The journalist apparently known and respected. The execution was butchered: an unbalanced and biased tour of the shoddiest of journalism dressed up as serious documentary. It is a case study of dog-whistling intolerance, and an insult to intelligence to suggest the balance of sin is so one-sidedly loaded.

I forced myself to finish watching this. The atrocities and hypocrisies of the US atomic programme (a bizarre drawn out cul-de-sac given other issues which could have been chosen) are spelt out in the first half and I had therefore anticipated the balancing antithesis of Chinese crimes to follow before some analytical synthesis. These never arrived: this was a complete hatchet job against US foreign policy. I am far from an American apologist, but this was cringe-worthy and uncomfortable. As a documentary, it is an insult to intelligence and the death knell of any serious pretence of Pilger's journalist career.

Most telling for me is the facade of some balanced interviewing: Pilger interrupts and corrects US spokespeople on at least three occasions, a hostility and rudeness not exerted elsewhere. His lack of objectivity, the clumsy inelegant construction of argument, the banal selectivity of history (yes, the Cultural Revolution brought many out of poverty but by all serious academic counting killed more than Hitler or Stalin). This is not serious journalism, and his delivery is simply insulting.

Yes, the US foreign policies have had several misadventures, but that is the nature of foreign policy. The selected skeletons were monotone and hack-emotive. The lack of direct comparison (of which there are at least an equal number in China), and any constructive conclusion was mind-numbing. And I suspect ultimately self-defeating: it is unlikely any balanced viewer could take this documentary seriously.

Without doubt, this is hack journalism - political broadcasts under the flimsiest of vaneers - which is not only intellectually bankrupt, but which divides and breeds intolerance: only the ignorant or the fanatical at one end of the political spectrum will find any value from this in reinforcing their own bigotry or stupidity. Whilst it will inspire vehement reactionary counteraccusation and attacks from those ignorant or fanatical at the other end of political spectrums. There is no room for constructive dialogue. This is truly terrible. A crime against journalism.
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Regular Shoppee
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening documentary!
Reviewed in Canada on 22 March 2018
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Wonderful and insightful historical facts and analysis of the threats to world peace.
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Genie H.
5.0 out of 5 stars THE TRUTH!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on 3 August 2021
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THIS VIDEO WAS VERY THOROUGH IN TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS BULLIED, LIED, MURDERED AND DESTOYED BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE AND LANDS AND OCEANS. I KNEW WE DID NOT HAVE A PERFECT GOVERNMENT BUT I HAD NO IDEA HOW DEEP AND DARK OUR EVIL WENT. NOW I KNOW WE ARE NOT EVEN A TINY BIT BETTER THAN THE MOST EVIL EMPIRE ON THE PLANET EARTH'S HISTORY. WHAT WE DID IS UNCORRECTABLE AND NOTHING CAN COMPENSATE TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF THE MARSHALL ISLANDS. EACH NIGHT NOW, I PRAY THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PAIN AND DESTRUCTION WILL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE AND THAT GOD WILL DESTROY THE RONALD REAGAN MISSILE SITE AND REMOVE ALL U. S. BASES FROM ALL THE LANDS WHERE WE ARE NOT WELCOMED BY THE CITIZENS OF THOSE COUNTRIES.
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E. Herrera
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on 28 June 2018
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a good one from pilger, although you feel at the end something missed out
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David O. Dodson
1.0 out of 5 stars This is socialist propaganda.
Reviewed in the United States on 7 July 2018
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It was a typical anti American cheap piece of trash. I thought it might be insightful and informative. Instead it was socialist propaganda. No one should waste their money on this one.
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Randolph C. Limjoco
5.0 out of 5 stars China cannot be stopped
Reviewed in the United States on 23 March 2018
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Everyone on the planet must watch this documentary as it chronicles the fruture of mankind.
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