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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

Imperialism

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire

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

Schooling the World (2010)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Obey (2013)

War By Other Means (1992)

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (2020)

US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)

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

Bull$h!t Jobs | David Graeber

Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

David Graeber: We Need a Revolution in the Way We Think about "Work"

Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (2014)

5 Types of Bullshit Jobs and the Role of Work in our Society

Instead of Meaningfully Contributing to Society, Many People Are Stuck In Bullshit Jobs They Hate | Joe Rogan

David Graeber: Why Deregulation Is Actually Expanding Bureaucracy

David Graeber, the Anti-Leader of Occupy Wall Street

Gun Violence and Reform

Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Guns in America - A Six Part Series

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

A Brief History of the USA and Guns

Guns in America Vs. the Rest of the World

It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence

The State of Gun Violence in the US, Explained in 18 Charts

Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence Because The NRA Bought Our Politicians

Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

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

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

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

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

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

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

Cancel The Apocalypse: Here are 30 Films to Help Unlock the Good Ending

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

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

Money & Life (2013)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)

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

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

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

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

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

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The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

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The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

George Lakey

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

Wisdom Pills

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

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

David Cain

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Eric Michael Johnson

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

Charles Eisenstein

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

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

Tim Hjersted

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

Yasha Levine

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

Films For Action

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

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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

Ecocide: The Psychology of Environmental Destruction

Steve Taylor Ph.D.

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)

Indigenous Knowledge

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition

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

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

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility."

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

Why Cultural Diversity Is as Essential to Human Survival as Biological Diversity

Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother

The Other Way of Knowing

The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

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

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

Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities

Red Cry (2013)

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization

Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary

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)

Climate Change Documentaries

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

A Climate Of Change (2014)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disruption (2014)

Do the Math (2013)

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012) (trailer)

Tomorrow's Power (2019)

The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Years of Living Dangerously (2014)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

2040: Join The Regeneration (US-Only) (2020)

Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)

The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)

Before the Flood (2016)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

Transition Documentaries

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

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Transition

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Occupy Love (2013)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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