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Gun Violence and Reform

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

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

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

Guns in America - A Six Part Series

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

A Brief History of the USA and Guns

Guns in America Vs. the Rest of the World

It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence

The State of Gun Violence in the US, Explained in 18 Charts

Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence Because The NRA Bought Our Politicians

Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! (A Letter for the Hopeless)

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

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

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

There Is No One Right Way to Live | The Ideas of Daniel Quinn

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

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

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn: The New Renaissance

The Culture of Maximum Harm

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

When a Whole Generation of Youth "Feels Cheated," That's Something Worth Paying Attention To

The River of Vision: "If the World is Saved it Won't be Saved by Old Minds with New Programs."

The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael

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)

Creating Conscious Communities

The History Our Culture Doesn't Teach

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

Schooling the World (2010)

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

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

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

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

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Monumental Myths (2009)

Utopia (2013)

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

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

The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech (2019)

With God on Our Side (2010)

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

Trending Articles

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

Dan West

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

Tim Hjersted

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Films For Action

Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities

Tom Atlee

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

Films For Action

Paul Watson: If the Ocean Dies, We Die!

Paul Watson

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

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

George Lakey

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

Yasha Levine

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Six Ways to Find Your Courage During Challenging Times

Amy L. Eva

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Indigenous Environmental Network

Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans

Films For Action

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Daniel Quinn

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture

Everything Is A Remix (2015)

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

What is Creative Commons?

Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?

Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

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Trailers

Double Down News

Israel is Becoming a Fascist State (2023)

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

Former British Soldier EXPOSES Israel War Machine

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

Thought-Provoking Comics

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

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

Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us

Comic Strip of Alan Watts' Lecture: What If Money Was No Object?

Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm

Reclaim May Day

This Zen Comic Is Full of Timeless Life Lessons

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

On the Mindless Menace of Violence

One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Class Differences in Society

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

Comic Explaining Colonialism

Brilliant Comic of Banksy's Call To Arms Against Advertisers

This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams

Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic

What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion are Frying the Planet?

Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

The Importance of Maintaining a Sense of Wonder and Excitement

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)

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Israelism (2023)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

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

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Confessions of an Undercover Cop (2011)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

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Klamath (2016)

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Fall and Winter (2013)

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

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Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

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Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

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

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New Member Submissions

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

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

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