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The Bloom Series: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)

Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Long Videos for Listening to While You Move

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Peter Joseph: Can We Solve the Problems Created by the Market Economy While Retaining the Market?

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

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

Films For Action

Does Films For Action Have Bias? - a Statement About Neutrality and Our Values

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

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action's Vision for the Future

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

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

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

6 Short Films for Action

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

To Change Everything, Start Everywhere

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

The Shocking, True History of Race Baiting, From the 17th Century to the Present Day

John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit

Better, Not More

Trending Articles

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism

Rhyd Wildermuth

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Panic Volkushka

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

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

Films For Action

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

Russell Means

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

David Cain

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Daniel Quinn

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

Steve Rushton

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

Yasha Levine

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Paul Harrison

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Chris Hedges

Most Watched Documentaries

Beware Of Images (2016)

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

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The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger

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FLOW: For Love of Water (2008)

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Forks Over Knives (2011)

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The Culture High (2014)

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The Corporation (2003)

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Rebel Architecture (2014)

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Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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

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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

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Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)

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

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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)

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

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

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

The Corporation (2003)

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

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

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

Culture In Decline

Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?

Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101

Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder

Culture In Decline #4: The War on Nature

Culture in Decline #5: Baby Go Boom!

Culture in Decline #6: Tale of Two Worlds

10 Films That Will Metaphorically Blow Your Mind

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Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

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

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Israelism (2023)

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Killing Gaza (2018)

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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

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Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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Fall and Winter (2013)

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

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

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Imprint (2023)

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ANICCA - Embracing Change (2017)

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Belo Monte: After the Flood (2016)

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

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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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New Member Submissions

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

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

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