The War You Don't See is a 2010 British documentary film written, produced and directed by John Pilger with Alan Lowery, which challenges the media for the role they played in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine conflicts. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , had its premiere at the Barbican and was aired through Britain's ITV1 on and later through Australia's SBS One on . Participants Professor Stuart Ewen – media historian Professor Melvin Goodman – former CIA analyst Dan Rather – CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor, 1981–2005 Bryan Whitman – US Assist. Secretary of Defence Rageh Omaar – BBC world affairs reporter, 2000–2006 Dahr Jamail – journalist & author, Beyond the Green Zone David Rose – former Observer journalist Steve Rendall – Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting Fran Unsworth – BBC Head of Newsgathering David Manion – Editor in Chief, ITV News Mark Curtis – historian & author, Web of Deceit Phil Shiner – Public Interest Lawyers Guy Smallman – war reporter & photographer Carne Ross – British Foreign Office, 1989–2004 Professor Greg Philo – Glasgow University Media Group Cynthia McKinney – former US Congresswoman Julian Assange – Editor in Chief, WikiLeaks Reception The Guardian film reviewer Peter Bradshaw states that, "The force of his film is in its contention that the colossal scale of civilian casualties is, within the grammar of news, downgraded in importance so that it doesn't figure as news at all, but as all-but-invisible deep background to be ignored". "Pilger gives due respect to WikiLeaks," he concludes, "although his praise for al-Jazeera's independence is ironic, given that WikiLeaks has just revealed the possibility that the Qatar government is manipulating the channel." The Guardian television reviewer John Crace states that, "Pilger has never traded in anything other than black and white," and "Pilger's starting point is that all governments are shysters whose only interest is economic and all journalists are witless dupes," which, "had the feel of slight overkill," but "For all his lack of subtlety, he presents his case with passion and conviction." "What shone through," he concludes, "was that those we rely on to think clearly in times of war are often those most seduced by myopic machismo and that any sense of history gets instantly forgotten." John Lloyd wrote in the Financial Times that Pilger asserted the British and American media tried to advocate that "wars were noble,