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Why We Need Socialism

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Stephen Colbert Drops Truth Bombs in Front of Elites while George Bush Cringes (2006)

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Poor No More (2010)

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The Lottery of Birth (2013)

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

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Israelism (2023)

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Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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Grass: A Marijuana History (1999)

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How We End Consumerism: The Degrowth Movement Shows a Way

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Before You Have Sex, Watch This

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The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

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

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Carnage (2017)

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The Overnighters (2014)

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Most Watched Documentaries

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

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Inside Job (2010)

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For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

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The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)

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Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

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Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

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Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It's Haunting.

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Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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Subconscious War (2011)

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Sir! No Sir! The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War (2005)

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Earthlings (2005)

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The Culture High (2014)

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Sicko (2007)

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Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

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Occupy Love (2013)

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

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Miss Representation (2011)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)

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American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)

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Starsuckers (2009)

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Israel & Palestine Coverage

How YOU Can Help Stop Israel's Carnage In Gaza - And Support Palestinian Liberation

Israeli Politician Backs Genocide Investigation - Now They're Trying To Silence Him w/ Ofer Cassif

Israeli Destruction and Massacres Continue with US Backing | Glenn Greenwald

BBC's Racism Over Gaza Exposed By Shocking Study

The World's Most Documented Genocide in History

How Israel Could Be STOPPED By South Africa - Its Overwhelming Genocide Case Explained

Israeli Dissidents Expose Genocidal Language

Yanis Varoufakis Tells Me: Gaza Is A Genocide In Plain Sight

Chris Hedges: "The Genocide in Gaza"

I Watched The Hamas Massacre Film. Here's My Thoughts. | Owen Jones

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

On Israel-Gaza & the Corrupting Media Dynamic of “Audience Capture” | Glenn Greenwald

I’m Jewish. I Want a Ceasefire in Gaza. | Dave Zirin

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

Pope Calls Israeli Army Terrorists | The Kyle Kulinski Show

'Biden Could END Gaza War With A Phone Call': Jeremy Scahill Exposes US and Israeli Claims

Don't Turn Away: This Video Shows the Reality of Israel's War on Gaza

The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

"Self-Hating Jew" Explains Why Israel Has No Right...

Dr. Gabor Mate: This Is Genocide

Yes, Israel is an Apartheid State. Perhaps an Analogy Will Be Useful Here.

Tory MP Threatens To Prosecute UK Govt Over Israeli War Crimes

Piers Morgan is Wrong. Here's a 23 Minute Video Refuting: "That's Not Genocide"

Amnesty International Finds "Damning Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 6,500

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas (2018)

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

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

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual

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

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

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Crisis Fatigue and the Co-Creation of Positive Possibilities

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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’

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The White Man in That Photo

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The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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

David Cain

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

Yasha Levine

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

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Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

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

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9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down

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

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

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Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

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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)

Epic Documentaries

Videos Under Five Minutes

Australians Answer The Question, 'Why Do You Welcome Refugees?'

2 min

What If We Turned Every Window Into a Power Source?

1 min

Introduction to Yard Sharing and Hyperlocavore.com

2 min

The Conservative Lorax

3 min

5 Corporations Profiting From Your Fear

5 min

'Theresa May and the Holy Grail' is Satirical Genius

3 min

Maya Angelou: Still I Rise

3 min

I'm Not Cleaning for the Queen!

2 min

Karma Kitchen

2 min

Thousand Eyes - A Graphic Exposé of Australian Animal Agriculture

4 min

How Romanticism Ruined Love

5 min

An Open Message to the 99% (Occupy Wall St)

5 min

How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever

5 min

I Have Tourette Syndrome and Here's Why I Want You to Laugh

2 min

Matt Orfalea Interviews White Nationalists Attending "Unite the Right 2" in DC | August 12, 2018

4 min

Michael Moore Calls Out ABC Labor Practices On "Good Morning America" (2009)

Dave Chappelle's Trans Friend | Daphne Dorman

4 min

Trauma at the Border

5 min

A Brown Girl's Guide to Gender

2 min

Bill Maher - New Rules: America Isn't #1 (2006)

4 min

Akala's Radical History Lesson Should Be Part of the Curriculum

2 min

Edgy New “Breaking Bad” Video Reveals the Truth About the Drug War

1 min

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

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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