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

The End of the Corporation?

How to Fix the World

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

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

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

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

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

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

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

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

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

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

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

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

Wanted: Men Who Love

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

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power

The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy

Understanding Patriarchy

To Attain Freedom, We Must Name The True Root of Our Problems

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

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

Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult

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

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

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

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution - Daniel Christian Wahl

The Regenerative Design (R)Evolution

Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence

Regenerative Cultures and Economies of Place | Daniel Christian Wahl

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

Wake Up to Find Out That You Are the Eyes of the World!

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

Beyond Sustainability? — We Are Living in the Century of Regeneration

Living the Questions: Questions, More than Answers, are the Pathway to Collective Wisdom

Indigenous Stories and Perspectives

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

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Schooling the World (2010)

Song From the Forest (2013)

Ever the Land (2015)

Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

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

Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)

Protecting Country (2018)

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

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

Honey At The Top (2016)

Seeds Of Change (2014)

Red Cry (2013)

Utopia (2013)

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

Inspiring Short Films

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

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)

Free Indie Documentaries

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

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

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

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

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

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

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Films For Action

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

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

George Lakey

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

Russell Means

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Courtland Milloy

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

David Cain

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

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

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

Yasha Levine

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

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction

Steve Taylor Ph.D.

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men

Mark Green

Why It's Crucial for Women to Heal the Mother Wound

Bethany Webster

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Noam Chomsky

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute

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

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

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

Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

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)

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

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

Films That Inspire Inner Change

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

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

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

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

Why You'll Be Happier When You Give Up The Blame Game

What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

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

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

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

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

How to Be a Great Listener

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

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

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

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

SCARS

A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature

Universal Wisdom Meditation

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

How Forests Heal People

Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal

Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)

Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Trending Documentaries

Surviving Progress (2011)

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9/11: Decade of Deception (2015)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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

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The Settlers (2016)

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

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

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Israelism (2023)

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

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The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

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With God on Our Side (2010)

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Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

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2012: Time For Change (2010)

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

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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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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