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The History Our Culture Doesn't Teach

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

Schooling the World (2010)

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

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

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

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

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

Monumental Myths (2009)

Utopia (2013)

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

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

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

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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 about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

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

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

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Voices of Transition (2012)

10 Films That Will Metaphorically Blow Your Mind

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Washington's Blog

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Wisdom Pills

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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 Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

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

Michael E Sparks

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 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

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

David Cain

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

George Lakey

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

The Case Against Competition

Alfie Kohn

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

Daniel Quinn

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

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)

Carl Sagan

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Impossible Hamster

How to Fix the World

Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy it

Enough Is Enough (2014)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

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