Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq

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| image = PayingthePrice.jpg

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| caption = Screenshot of title card

| director = Alan Lowery

| writer = John Pilger

| producer = John Pilger
Alan Lowery

| starring = John Pilger
Dennis Halliday
Robert Gates
Hans von Sponeck
Peter van Walsum
Karol Sikora
James Rubin
Scott Ritter
Said Aburish
Doug Rokke

| narrator =

| cinematography = Preston Clothier

| editor = Joe Frost

| music = Nick Russell-Pavier

| company = Carlton Television

| released = {{Start date|2000}}

| runtime = 74 minutes

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| budget =

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Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq is a 2000 Carlton Television documentary written and presented by John Pilger which was directed by Alan Lowery. In this documentary Pilger argues that UN sanctions had a devastating effect on the children of Iraq during the 1990s.{{cite web |title=Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq |url=http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/payhv.html |work=Bullfrog Films |access-date=2010-06-11 }}{{cite web|title=John Pilger Filmography 1970-2008 |url=http://pilger.carlton.com/page.asp?partID=4 |work=johnpilger.com |access-date=2010-06-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090603221740/http://pilger.carlton.com/page.asp?partID=4 |archive-date=3 June 2009 }}

Synopsis

John Pilger and Alan Lowery traveled to Iraq with Denis Halliday, a former assistant secretary-general of the United Nations who resigned over what he called the "immoral policy" of economic sanctions. There they expected to find a suffering nation held hostage to the compliance of a dictator, Saddam Hussein. What they found was a country being slowly strangled by a draconian U.S./U.K. blockade.

Interviewees

Awards and festival screenings

  • Chris Award, Columbus International Film & Video Festival
  • Vancouver International Film Festival

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