The War on Democracy is Australian writer-filmmaker John Pilger's first major feature film for the cinema, an extraordinary and illuminating documentary with Latin America at its heart. It explores people's yearning for democracy - government, for, by and of the people - and demonstrates the brutal reality of America's foreign policy of 'spreading democracy'. It also reveals the remarkable rise of true popular democracy and people power among the poorest on earth, the people of Latin America, whose grassroots movements are often ignored in the West. Pilger conducts an exclusive interview with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and films the people of the barrios and the social movements of Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile, and those who suffered under dictatorships tolerated and encouraged by the US and the West. His interviews with ex US government officials and the head of the CIA in Latin America reveal that what happened in Latin America in the 1980s is a metaphor for how the rest of the world is being 'ordered' today, with the Middle East as its epicentre. Above all, The War On Democracy is an inspiring and thought-provoking film, for it sees the world not through the eyes of the powerful, but through the hopes and dreams and extraordinary actions of ordinary people.