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Documentaries by One of Our Heroes, John Pilger (Rest in Peace)

The War You Don't See (2010)

What is Real Journalism? John Pilger Reviews His 50 Year Career

Breaking The Silence: Truth And Lies In The War On Terror (2003)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

The Dirty War On The NHS (2019)

Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny (1970)

War By Other Means (1992)

The New Rulers of the World (2001)

The Coming War on China (2016)

The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)

Apartheid Did Not Die (1998)

Utopia (2013)

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Gimme Green (2007)

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

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

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex. Invest in Alternatives.

What Are We Talking About When We Talk About 'A Police-Free Future'?

We Must Look Beyond Police for Community Safety

The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.

We Have to Demand an End to the Social Order That Led to George Floyd's Murder

Police Abolition 101: What a World Without Cops Would Look Like

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let's Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality.

The Police State & The Minimum Wage

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: End the Drug War Now

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

A Few Thoughts After the #Blacklivesmatter Vigil in Lawrence, KS Tonight

15 Things We Can Do to End Police Brutality & Reform Our Broken Criminal Justice System

13 Point Human Rights-Based Revolutionary Agenda

The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Sacred Activism: Mindfulness and Racial Justice

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

Videos that Explain Things

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

How Romanticism Ruined Love

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.

The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Change

Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?

Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization?

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

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

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

LOCAL: A Story Of Hope

World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!

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

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love

Trending Articles

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 37 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Paul Harrison

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Bernie Sanders Will Tie Biden in the Final Super Tuesday Results: Why It Looks Good for Sanders

Saib Bilaval

Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

Charles Eisenstein

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Eric Michael Johnson

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

Yasha Levine

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

Africa Brooke

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

David Cain

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

George Lakey

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

The Best Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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

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

Carl Sagan

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

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

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

Carl Sagan: We Are One Planet

Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan's Love Letter to the Universe

Man in His Arrogance - a Great Speech by Carl Sagan

The Feynman Series: Experiencing the Grandeur of the Universe

Wanderers

We Need Activism to Have More Compassion In It

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

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

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

You Can't Be Intersectional While at the Same Time Being Elitist and Exclusionary

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

No Justice Without Love: Why Activism Must Be More Generous

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

Ten Counterproductive Behaviors of Social Justice Educators

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Exiting the Vampire Castle

Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

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

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

The Problem With Hating Our Enemies

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

Above With Love: Do Not Sink to the Level of People's Brokenness

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Compassion, the Antidote

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

Public Shaming

The Politics of Being Woke

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

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

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

Do You Yearn for a World of Love and Justice? So Do We.

Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

Trending Documentaries

Schooling the World (2010)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

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

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Imprint (2023)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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

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Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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

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Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

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475 (2013)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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

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Israelism (2023)

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PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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13TH (2016)

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

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

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

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

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