FILMS FOR ACTION
Categories
All Films
Documentaries
Patron Films
Trailers
Videos
Pay Per View
Articles
Everything
Info
About
Contact
Subscribe
F.A.Q.
Get Involved
Filmmakers
TVOD Service
SVOD Service
Add Video
Topics
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Drug Prohibition
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
Subscribe for $5/mo
Support our free library and gain access to 50+ patron-exclusive documentaries.
BROWSE
Add Article
Create List
Add Video
Sign In
Settings
Sign In
Add Video
Add Article
Categories
All Films
Documentaries
Patron Films
Trailers
Videos
Pay Per View
Articles
Everything
Info
About
Contact
Subscribe
F.A.Q.
Get Involved
Filmmakers
TVOD Service
SVOD Service
Add Video
Topics
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Drug Prohibition
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
Subscribe for $5/mo
Films For Action is 100% community-funded.
WATCH VIDEOS. SHARE.
TAKE ACTION.
Welcome to the largest library
for social change online.
Watch 6000+ free films. Add videos.
Let's be the media.
Art by Jessica Perlstein
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?
Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies
To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like
What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
The Story That's Destroying the World
To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism
Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution
Radical Kindness Is Liberating
A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There
On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities
Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism
What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget
Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About
We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?
If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.
Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action
The Corporation (2003)
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Earthlings (2005)
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)
The Crisis of Civilization (2011)
Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)
Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual
Not Business As Usual (2014)
Real Value (2013)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)
Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)
Money & Life (2013)
Waste = Food (2007)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)
Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)
Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
A Passion For Sustainability (2008)
New Documentaries
Power 2 the People (2013)
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)
Tribes on the Edge (2021)
Food, Inc. 2 (2024)
SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)
Britain's Ultra Nationalists (2019)
Israel: Above the law? (2024)
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)
October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)
The Stones Cry Out: The Story Of Palestinian Christians (2013)
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017)
The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)
LAST CALL! (2022)
Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)
The Sanctuary (2022)
Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)
The Settlers (2016)
Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
The Medicated Child (2008)
Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)
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)
Videos by Second Thought
Is The State Your Enemy?
The Problem With Hyper-Individualism
The Minimum Wage Debate Explained
Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media
The Capitol Riot Explained
America's Prescription Drug Cartel
The CIA is a Terrorist Organization
Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World
Censorship and the Future of the Internet
How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics
Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace
You're Probably Already A Socialist
Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?
Is Universal Basic Income The Future?
America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly
The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism
Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures
America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism
America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline
America's Stunted Political Spectrum
Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response
Racist Statues and Revisionist History
Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement
How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)
Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?
Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism
America's Unemployment Problem
The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism
How Hollywood Sells Us War
Why American Fascism Is On The Rise
How Left Is The American Left...And Why Didn't Socialism Catch On Here?
How American Workers Are Losing Billions
The Myth Of Upward Mobility
Environmental Justice: How Capitalism Threatens Humanity
The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism
How Capitalism Ruined Work
How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties
The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report
How Finland Ended Homelessness
Trending Videos
Israelism (2023)
84 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
780 min
Holocaust Survivor's POWERFUL Message to Gaza Protesters
5 min
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
84 min
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
258 min
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
77 min
October 7th: The Whole Story Finally Revealed
43 min
Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Surge at US Campuses after Columbia University Arrests
8 min
Imprint (2023)
75 min
Noam Chomsky Interview: U.S. Terrorism, Hypocrisy, and Morality
40 min
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
65 min
Living Without: How Much is Enough?
11 min
Trending Articles
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
Films For Action
10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society
Wisdom Pills
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
Tim Hjersted
Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal
Chris Agnos
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Films For Action
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Panic Volkushka
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
George Lakey
Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence
James Gilligan
What Happens When Silicon Valley Experiments With Direct Democracy
Gregory Fernenstein
Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth"
Naomi Klein
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
The White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga
Four Kinds of Dystopia
Darren Allen
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
George Monbiot
22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works
Tim Hjersted
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Jordan Engel
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
Michael E Sparks
Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next
Joanna Macy
Understanding Patriarchy
bell hooks
How to Defeat the Fossil Goliath?
Dr. Aaron Thierry
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
Asam Ahmad
90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways
Tim Hjersted
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
Caitlin Moran
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
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
Nonviolent Communication
Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
21 Examples of NVC Consciousness
Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection
The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication
Core Nonviolence Commitments
The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh
Wanting Fully Without Attachment
Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy
Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)
Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence
How Our Language Makes It Easy to Be Violent
Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence
Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence
How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee
What It Means To Communicate
Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones
Principles to Guide Our Activism
10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy
Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns
8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing
The History and Philosophy of Aikido
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
Liberation Theory: a Working Framework
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions
Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope
The (R)Evolution is Unity: Reflections on the 7 Principles of Kwanzaa
How to Fix the World
Voting Is a Chess Move, Not a Valentine. In Other Words: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!
The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest
The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape
Voting Is a Chess Move, Not the Whole Game
My Appeal to Leftists Who Won't Vote or Who Believe Voting Third Party Is a Principled Stance
The Anarchist Case For Voting In Elections
To Vote or Not to Vote: For Anarchists, Is There Only One True Way?
I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
Noam Chomsky: You Don't Stop with the Lesser Evil. You Begin with It, to Prevent the Worst. Then You Deal with the Root Causes
Voting Matters (trailer)
Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!
Democracy Is for Life, Not Just Elections
Trending Documentaries
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
514 mins watched today
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
228 mins watched today
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
169 mins watched today
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
120 mins watched today
Sicko (2007)
109 mins watched today
The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
99 mins watched today
Addicted to Plastic (2008)
89 mins watched today
Schooling the World (2010)
86 mins watched today
Electronic Awakening (2012)
84 mins watched today
The New American Century (2009)
84 mins watched today
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
80 mins watched today
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)
79 mins watched today
The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes (2015)
66 mins watched today
Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)
62 mins watched today
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
60 mins watched today
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
55 mins watched today
The Age of Disconnection (2018)
53 mins watched today
Israelism (2023)
50 mins watched today
Unseen Tears (2009)
47 mins watched today
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
45 mins watched today
New Member Submissions
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
How To Resist Radical Evil | Chris Hedges
Our mission is to empower citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more
compassionate, just, regenerative, and democratic society
.
Learn
more.
Art by Jessica Perlstein
Top Contributing Members
Films For Action
3226 videos
2637 articles
Andrew Butler
1791 videos
1402 articles
Tim Hjersted
166 videos
361 articles
A Cause For Ideas
283 videos
4 articles
Abby M
364 videos
Matthew Toplikar
137 videos
50 articles
Sustainable Human
69 videos
24 articles
Zetan Priest
240 videos
Dan Weingarten
48 videos
Evolutionary Life Architecture
70 videos
5 articles
Explore by Topic
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
×
Log In
Sign In
Save
Saved
×
Video Info
Date Added
Views
Length
min
Topics
×
Share