Oct 6, 2004 · One of John Pilger’s most remarkable documentaries, bringing a little-known story to a wide audience, is Stealing a Nation, about how British governments ruthlessly expelled the population of the Chagos Islands, a crown colony in the Indian Ocean, in the late 1960s and early 70s to make way for an American military base on Diego Garcia, the ...

Jul 30, 2004 · Created by award-winning journalist John Pilger, it uncovers a dark chapter in British colonial history that has remained largely hidden from public view. The film traces the events that led to the forced removal of over 2,000 Chagossians from …

Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary about the British–American clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the native Chagossian population of Diego Garcia and...

Dec 31, 2014 · Stealing A Nation reveals the extraordinary story of the secret expulsion of the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean by successive British governments, so that the principal island, Diego Garcia, could be handed to the United States as a …

Stealing a Nation is a 2004 Granada Television documentary about the British–American clandestine operation that saw the expulsion of the Chagossian population who have lived on Diego Garcia and neighbouring islands since the late 18th century.

Stealing a Nation (John Pilger, 2004) is an extraordinary film about the plight of people of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean - secretly and brutally expelled from their homeland by British governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, to make way for an American military base.

Jun 3, 2024 · John Pilger Documentaries & Filmography: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMV4WsADf_cKpptqKxqwkw1GIF9Or965wWatch the full 2004 documentary film by John...

Let Us Return: The Story of the Chagos Islanders – Short documentary by Andy Marsh about Chagossians in the UK. Comments are closed. This is an online archive dedicated to documenting the history of the Chagossian people and their exile during construction of the US/UK military base on Diego Garcia.

Apr 6, 2009 · "Stealing a Nation is a documentary film by journalist filmmaker John Pilger about the expulsion of Chagos Islanders. They were forcibly removed by the British government between 1967 and...

Let Us Return: The Story of the Chagos Islanders. 2015 documentary directed by Andy Marsh (15 minutes). How the U.S. Stole an Island. 2021 video by Johnny Harris (10 minutes). Stealing a Nation: How the UK/US Stole the Diego Garcia Island. 2004 TV documentary written and directed by award winning journalist John Pilger (56 minutes).