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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

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

The Promise of a Million Utopias

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

The Promise of Radical Municipalism Today

Liquid Democracy: The App That Turns Everyone into a Politician

An Atlas of Real Utopias?

Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods

Building Democratic Power at the Local Level - A Strategy for Long-Term Liberation

Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve

Democracy (How to Save It and Ourselves) Narrated by Danny Glover

How to Start Participatory Budgeting in Your City

What Is Democracy? (trailer)

We Can Restore Democracy by Disrupting Politics. Here's How.

Consensus (Direct Democracy @ Occupy Wall St)

Scaling Up: Ideas about Participatory Democracy

Democracy? That Would Be Anarchy!

The 4th Branch of Government: An Idea To Create Direct Democracy For, and By, The People

The Most Radical Experiment in Direct Democracy and Gender Equality can be Found in the Middle East

Anarcho-Syndicalist Principles

Democracy At Work: How This One Idea Could Make Your Job Amazing

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Earth Democracy

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

David Cain

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

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

Courtland Milloy

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

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

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

How a Lack of Touch Is Destroying Men

Mark Green

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

Bethany Webster

Culture In Decline

Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?

Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101

Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder

Culture In Decline #4: The War on Nature

Culture in Decline #5: Baby Go Boom!

Culture in Decline #6: Tale of Two Worlds

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

This Is What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Brain

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Psyched Out: Documentary on Psychedelics, Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

Forbidden Fruit: An Excerpt from the Feature Documentary Fantastic Fungi

Did Mushrooms Play a Role in the Evolution of Human Consciousness? - Paul Stamets

Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Anxiety, Addiction and Depression

Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan

Mushrooms as Spiritual Teachers, A Brief History

Michael Pollan | Dissolving the Default Mode Network

How Trees Talk to Other Trees with the Help of Fungi

Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein

Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism

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)

Activist Philosophy & Reflection

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

“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors

How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us

Not All Politics Is Identity Politics

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

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

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

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

No Impact Man's Guide to Activism

Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

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

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Polarization Trap

How to Disagree

Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

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

How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

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

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

The Trap of Righteousness

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

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

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

Are You Tired of the Social Justice Outrage Machine?

Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements

The Problem With Judgement

Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy

5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals

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