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Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

Racing Extinction (2015) (trailer)

Understanding The Peace Code In The Human Brain

Crisis in the Congo: 7 Million Dead and the Role the US and its Allies Played

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Trump Is a Symptom of a Sickness That Is Raging All Across The World

Planet Earth II Could Be Best Nature Doc Ever Made (trailer)

The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The Great Everything & the Nothing (2016)

FLOW: For Love of Water (2008)

Epic Poem About Money by Benjamin Zephaniah

Watch: How Ayahuasca Can Break Addiction's Grip on the Brain

The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger

Britain Is Leaving the EU. Here's What That Means.

Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones

Be a Part of This Movement. Be a Part of This Story.

Carnage (2017)

Documentaries by Scott Noble

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

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

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

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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

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

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

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

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

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

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

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

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

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

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

Trailers

Trending Articles

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

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Panic Volkushka

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

Washington's Blog

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Yasha Levine

“Consciousness: Past and Present” – The oppression of women, by Artist Shqipe Kamberi

Njomza Miftari

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

Deep Ecology Hub

An Open Letter From Assata Shakur: "I Am a 20th Century Escaped Slave"

Assata Shakur

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

Michael E Sparks

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

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

Russell Means

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

How to Not Be Offended

Shemsi Prinzivalli

Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic

Michael Goodwin, Illustrated by Dan E. Burr

Defiance in the Face of Oppression - Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Defends the Right to Draw

Gavin Aung Than

The Miseducation of the American Boy

Peggy Orenstein

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

David Cain

Call Outs, Canceling, Shaming and More: Activist Tactics That Need a 2nd Look

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

How to Be a Woke White Person

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

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

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Calling in Call-Out Culture

Canceling | ContraPoints

Krystal Ball Interviews Contrapoints on Her Blockbuster Cancel Culture Video

The Cancel God

Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics

Exiting the Vampire Castle

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Noam Chomksy "Calls Out" Cancel Culture

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

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.

10 Films That Will Metaphorically Blow Your Mind

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?

Most Watched Documentaries

Inside Job (2010)

556,545 views

The War You Don't See (2010)

66,993 views

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

45,106 views

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

113,945 views

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

42,058 views

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

128,800 views

2012: Time For Change (2010)

81,980 views

FLOW: For Love of Water (2008)

44,028 views

Human (2015)

600,227 views

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

109,101 views

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

200,249 views

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

56,567 views

DAMOCRACY: Debunking the Myth of Dams as 'Clean' Energy

41,213 views

The Age of Stupid (2009)

112,774 views

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

45,598 views

The Nature of Cities (2010)

42,170 views

Addicted to Plastic (2008)

56,272 views

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

76,105 views

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

94,345 views

Fall and Winter (2013)

86,787 views

Schooling the World (2010)

645,264 views

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

40,663 views

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

42,761 views

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

89,535 views

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