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Belo Monte: After the Flood (2016)

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How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever

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

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The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror

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You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated More Uniquely Than This

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Israelism (2023)

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America the Beautiful (2007) (trailer)

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Song From the Forest (2013)

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The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

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Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

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Exposed: The Media Strategy to Provide Cover for US-Israeli Crimes

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The Army Gave Soldiers LSD For an Experiment. The Result Was Pretty Hilarious.

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The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us

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Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

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Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech & The Battle For Palestinian Rights (2019)

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The Need to GROW (2019)

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Before You Have Sex, Watch This

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Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video (2007) (trailer)

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Education

Schooling the World (2010)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

Documentary Series

Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

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

In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)

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

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn

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

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis

How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)

Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action

The Corporation (2003)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

Earthlings (2005)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)

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

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Guides

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

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

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World

Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons

Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals

How to Not Be Offended

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle

The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New

How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op

4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever

Guide to Building a Solidarity Network

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Trending Articles

Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism

Rhyd Wildermuth

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

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

Wisdom Pills

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies

Tim Hjersted

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

Films For Action

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

Films For Action

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

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

Kathleen Harris

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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

Russell Means

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

Yasha Levine

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Communalism: a Liberatory Alternative to the Present System

Marcus Amargi and Stephanie Amargi

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

George Lakey

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

The Zeitgeist Movement | Peter Joseph

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

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph (2017)

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation

Peter Joseph: "Social Pathology"

Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion

Peter Joseph - The Revolution of Values

A Critique of Bernie Sanders "Inequality in America" Town Hall, by Peter Joseph (2018)

Peter Joseph - Critique of Jordan B. Peterson (vs Slavoj Zizek: "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism")

Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph

Videos Under Five Minutes

Watch What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

2 min

Better, Not More

5 min

Earth Overshoot Day Explained

3 min

Bill Maher on Corporate Child Predators (2006)

3 min

Why Does Independent Media Matter?

2 min

Puppy Farms Exposed - Clear Reasons Why You Should Adopt, Not Buy

2 min

Amend 2012

2 min

Yes Men Just Brilliantly Pranked The NRA

2 min

Abby Martin Exposes Obama's SOTU Double Speak | Brainwash Update

4 min

Spy Drones Expose Smithfield Foods Factory Farms

5 min

World says Pres. Bush most dangerous man in world

3 min

Watch Orangutans Build Umbrellas, "Kiss-Squeak," and More

2 min

Twisted Sister's Dee Snider Pays Tribute to Standing Rock with New Video

5 min

Malian Singer's New Video Shows 4 Generations of Women Standing Up for Peace and Freedom

4 min

Syria: Who Is Fighting Whom?

3 min

The High Price of Materialism

5 min

How Ferguson Showed Us the Truth about Police

4 min

Are You Racist? 'No' Is Not a Good Enough Answer

2 min

F*ck That: A Guided Meditation for the Realities of Today's World

2 min

Strategic Maneuvers: The Revolving Door from the Pentagon to the Private Sector

4 min

Street Artists Just Pulled Off The Largest Advertising Takeover In World History

1 min

The Epic Journey of a Refugee Cat to Find His Family

2 min

His Death Wasn't Just A Tragedy, It Was A Product Of A Criminal Justice System

5 min

Even It Up: Time to End Extreme Economic Inequality

3 min

Watch On Demand

Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Harambe (2023)

Israelism (2023)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

No Small Matter (2019) (trailer)

Voices of Transition (2012)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Bullied (2019)

Madagasikara (2020)

You Can't Evict An Idea - Occupy London On Film (2018)

The Man Card: White Male Identity Politics from Nixon to Trump (2020)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Make Me A Man (2021)

Freak Power: the Ballot or the Bomb (2020)

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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

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

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

Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

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