Utopia

'Powerful, passionate, commanding' – Total Film

Following his hard-hitting documentary The War You Don't See (2010), John Pilger's new film is a rare and powerful insight into a secret Australia and breaks what amounts to a national silence about the Indigenous first people – the oldest, most enduring presence on Earth. An epic film in its production, scope and revelations, Utopia (2013) reveals that apartheid is deep within Australia's past and present and that Aboriginal people are still living in abject poverty and third-world conditions, with a low life expectancy and disproportionately high rate of deaths in police custody.

Starting his career as a journalist in his native Australia before moving to London, John Pilger has been the recipient of multiple awards, including Britain's highest awards for journalism (twice) and television academy awards in both the UK and the US. He has been a foreign correspondent and frontline war reporter, and is a regular contributor to international media, including the ITV Network, The Guardian and the New Statesman. 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.

Special Features

• More than three hours of additional interviews recorded during the filming of Utopia
• Booklet by Pilger biographer Anthony Hayward
• Original theatrical trailer