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Films That Inspire Inner Change

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

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

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

Why You'll Be Happier When You Give Up The Blame Game

What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

How to Be a Great Listener

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

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

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

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Break Anxiety and Addiction by Examining Your Patterns

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

SCARS

A New Consciousness Through Growing Food and Connecting with Nature

Universal Wisdom Meditation

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

How Forests Heal People

Gabor Mate on the Myth of Normal

Ola - Health Is Everything (2013)

Do You Worry that Screen-Based Electronics Are Rewiring Your Brain?

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

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 Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

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

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

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

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

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

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

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

The End of the Corporation?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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

Videos Under Five Minutes

Nina Turner: I Am an Angry-Ass Black Woman. I'm Mad! (2021)

2 min

Amend 2012

2 min

Teenage Affluenza! What Can You Do To Help?

5 min

Climate Activists Shut Down Open Cast Coal Mine: Here And No Further

3 min

John Oliver Asks: Columbus Day - How Is This Still A Thing?

3 min

There's Too Many of These Crows - A Short Film About Aggression and Escalation

4 min

Politics are Polarized, But Not for the Reason You Think | Robert Reich

3 min

She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite... Hurting... Worth Dying for.

5 min

Buy Nothing Day

1 min

Farmer in 1950s America Has Sage Advice for His Gay Son

4 min

Obama's Anger Management Translator Speaks the Truth

4 min

Marlon Brando Speaks Truth on The Treatment of American Indians (1973)

5 min

Incredible Speech by Charlie Kaufman Reminds Us: Things Don't Have To Be This Way

5 min

Watch This Wonderful Video Revealing the Results of a DNA Test

1 min

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

5 min

How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?

4 min

Honest Government Ad | The Recession

4 min

How the Republicans Paved the Way for Donald Trump, Explained in 2 Minutes

2 min

Jews And Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies

2 min

How Criminal Can a Corporation Get and Still Have Its Stock Value Go Up? Halliburton Knows.

5 min

Planetize the Movement

2 min

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

2 min

TreeSisters Aim to Plant Millions of Trees and Creature a Culture of Ecological Restoration

5 min

The Foiled Bomb Plot in Kansas That Didn't Make Trump's Terror List

5 min

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Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

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The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

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Trending Articles

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Films For Action

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

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

Wisdom Pills

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

George Lakey

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Russell Means

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

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

Films For Action

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

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

What People Are Watching Now

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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

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)

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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