Stealing a Nation
2004, English. Directed by John Pilger & Sean Crotty.
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This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean. The aim was to give the principal island of this Crown Colony, Diego Garcia, to the Americans who wanted it as a major military base. Indeed, from Diego Garcia US planes have since bombed Afghanistan and Iraq. The story is told by islanders who were dumped in the slums of Mauritius and in the words of the British officials who left a 'paper trail' of what the International Criminal Court now describes as 'a crime against humanity'
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- 0h 56m
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- English
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- Released
- 31 July 2004
- Country
- British Indian Ocean Territory, United Kingdom
- Written by
- John Pilger
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Stealing a Nation isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 31 July 2004. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Stealing a Nation (2004) was directed by John Pilger and Sean Crotty and stars John Pilger.