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The Importance of Rites of Passage

Trailers

Intersections of Science and Spirituality

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

The Realist Approach to The Afterlife: Living On Through Memory and Deeds

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

The Other Way of Knowing

The Present Need of the World (1926)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

All Is Self (2019)

The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)

Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature (2008)

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

My Spirituality as an Atheist

Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

The Best Films For Action

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Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

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123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

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29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

What People Are Watching Now

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

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Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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This is the Most Detailed Map of the Universe to Date

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This Toe-Tapping Permaculture Jamboree Will Make You Want to Obtain a Yield!

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The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

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Fantastic Fungi (2019)

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George Carlin on Conspiracies

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What Are Technics? Episode 1 - Who's in Charge? (2023)

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Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity

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This "I Trust You" Social Experiment Shows a More Beautiful World Is Possible

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Before You Have Sex, Watch This

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields

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October 7th: The Whole Story Finally Revealed

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Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

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"You Grow Up Wanting to Be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Garret

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives

Maura R. O'Connor

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other

Rhyd Wildermuth

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Tim Hjersted

Yes, Israel Is a Racist State

Khelil Bouarrouj

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

War Is Always Justified

Charles Eisenstein

Israel’s Culture of Deceit

Chris Hedges

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

Brotherhood is the Medicine: How Men are Reclaiming a Masculinity in Service to Life

Charles Eisenstein

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Chris Hedges

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

Mandy Len Catron

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

Elyane Youssef

Documentaries from the legendary Media Education Foundation

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

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Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

The Corporation is at the Root of our Uncivilized, Inequality-Driving, Earth-Killing Economy

The Corporation (2003)

The New Corporation (2022)

War By Other Means (1992)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Most Watched Documentaries

Bitter Lake (2015)

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The Superior Human? (2012)

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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

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Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It's Haunting.

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The Nature of Cities (2010)

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A Quest For Meaning (2017)

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Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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Collapse (2009)

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Subconscious War (2011)

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Starsuckers (2009)

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The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

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Human (2015)

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

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Planet of the Humans (2019)

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PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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We - Arundhati Roy (2006)

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King Corn (2007)

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Rebel Architecture (2014)

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Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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The New American Century (2009)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)

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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

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The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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Israelism (2023)

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Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)

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Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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Fall and Winter (2013)

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Confessions of an Undercover Cop (2011)

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Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

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Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

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Streets Of Plenty (2010)

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New Member Submissions

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

Genetics Explained Who Are the Blessed Ones!

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Us Government Destroy Family

Why Julian Assange Should Be Freed | John Mearsheimer

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Gaza Is an Image of the Future

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

How To Resist Radical Evil | Chris Hedges

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