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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)

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Carl Sagan

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Carl Sagan: We Are One Planet

Carl Sagan and Annie Druyan's Love Letter to the Universe

Man in His Arrogance - a Great Speech by Carl Sagan

The Feynman Series: Experiencing the Grandeur of the Universe

Wanderers

The Bloom Series: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)

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)

Media Literacy

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

Beware Of Images (2016)

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

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

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

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose – How Films, Series and Video Games Reveal What Really Drives Us

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

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

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

The Creativity Delusion: There is no Genius

Corporate Jargon - Lying by Obscurity, Obscuring to Hide Corruption

How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever

Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans

Donald Trump: The Sitcom Misogynist

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Stalking for Love

Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die

How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War

The Miseducation of Dylann Roof

The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines

The News Is Center Right

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)

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

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

Wisdom Pills

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Jim Tull

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

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

Films For Action

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

George Lakey

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

Dan West

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

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

Films For Action

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Russell Means

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Michael E Sparks

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth

Films For Action

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)

Long Videos for Listening to While You Move

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

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

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Peter Joseph: Can We Solve the Problems Created by the Market Economy While Retaining the Market?

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

Masculinity

The New Macho: One Vision Of What Mature Masculinity Looks Like In The 21st Century

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

5 Habits of Highly Compassionate Men

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

What Is Toxic Masculinity?

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

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999) (trailer)

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

How I Unlearned Dangerous Lessons about Masculinity | Eldra Jackson

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

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

The Complicity of Geek Masculinity on the Big Bang Theory

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Masculinity, Yet Again, Is Fragile

Healing the Divine Masculine

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)

Trending Documentaries

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

518 mins watched today

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

281 mins watched today

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

198 mins watched today

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Israelism (2023)

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From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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How Fascism Serves Capitalism (2023)

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

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Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

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Aghet: A Genocide (2010)

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Killing Gaza (2018)

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The Coming War on China (2016)

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

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Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

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Broken by Battle (2013)

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Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016)

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

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

Genetics Explained Who Are the Blessed Ones!

United Daughters of the Confederacy

Us Government Destroy Family

Why Julian Assange Should Be Freed | John Mearsheimer

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