This is John Pilger's second major film for cinema, after his 2006 award-winning The War on Democracy. 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?

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.
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