FILMS FOR ACTION
Categories
All Films
Documentaries
Patron Films
Trailers
Videos
Pay Per View
Articles
Everything
Info
About
Contact
Subscribe
F.A.Q.
Get Involved
Filmmakers
TVOD Service
SVOD Service
Add Video
Topics
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Drug Prohibition
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
Subscribe for $5/mo
Support our free library and gain access to 50+ patron-exclusive documentaries.
BROWSE
Add Article
Create List
Add Video
Sign In
Settings
Sign In
Add Video
Add Article
Categories
All Films
Documentaries
Patron Films
Trailers
Videos
Pay Per View
Articles
Everything
Info
About
Contact
Subscribe
F.A.Q.
Get Involved
Filmmakers
TVOD Service
SVOD Service
Add Video
Topics
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Drug Prohibition
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
Subscribe for $5/mo
Films For Action is 100% community-funded.
WATCH VIDEOS. SHARE.
TAKE ACTION.
Welcome to the largest library
for social change online.
Watch 6000+ free films. Add videos.
Let's be the media.
Art by Jessica Perlstein
Inspiring Short Films
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time
The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe
Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?
We Are Built To Be Kind
The Empathic Civilization (Animated)
He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.
My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again
The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%
A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein
Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life
Videos Under Five Minutes
Hannity Calls #OWS Protesters Un-American, Two Marines Set Him Straight
3 min
$3 Trillion: The Hidden Cost of War
3 min
Target Ain't People
5 min
Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai
4 min
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
4 min
Rap News12: Yes We KONY?
3 min
The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy
3 min
Sexual Non-Liberation
5 min
Work Myths: 9 Lies You've Been Told About Work
3 min
Honest Government Ad | News Corp Bargaining Code
4 min
Women and children murdered on the orders of President Obama
5 min
In a Forest of Gods
5 min
They Said 'I do' ...Then Something Shocking Happened
2 min
Is David Cameron a Threat to Context?
1 min
Habitual
2 min
Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?
3 min
How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?
4 min
This is what a sex worker looks like
1 min
Montel Williams Scolds Tabloid News for Ignoring Reality
3 min
Trauma at the Border
5 min
Buckminster Fuller In 3 Minutes
3 min
Consumerism & You: A Modern Guide To Self Destruction
4 min
Akala's Radical History Lesson Should Be Part of the Curriculum
2 min
How to Repair the World
3 min
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.
Watch On Netflix
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)
Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)
How to Change Your Mind (2022) (trailer)
The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021) (trailer)
My Octopus Teacher (2020) (trailer)
The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)
The Great Hack (2019) (trailer)
Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) (trailer)
Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)
The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide
LOCAL: A Story Of Hope
World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)
Locally Abundant (2012)
The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)
Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization
Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love
Watch These First
The Corporation (2003)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Schooling the World (2010)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Money & Life (2013)
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
Fall and Winter (2013)
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)
Films for a Wiser Earth
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT (2018)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Trending Videos
Israelism (2023)
84 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
780 min
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
84 min
Where Olive Trees Weep (2024) (trailer)
3 min
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (2009)
97 min
October 7th: The Whole Story Finally Revealed
43 min
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
560 min
Laboratory Greece (2019)
165 min
Schooling the World (2010)
66 min
Sicko (2007)
123 min
Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)
77 min
How Fascism Serves Capitalism (2023)
32 min
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
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
Planet Local: A Short Film Series about the Beautiful Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Documentaries that Inspire Ecological Consciousness
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (2015)
The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)
United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)
The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
The Superior Human? (2012)
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
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
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
Trending Documentaries
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
500 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)
137 mins watched today
Schooling the World (2010)
131 mins watched today
Israelism (2023)
106 mins watched today
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
106 mins watched today
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)
106 mins watched today
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
103 mins watched today
How Fascism Serves Capitalism (2023)
96 mins watched today
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)
69 mins watched today
Aghet: A Genocide (2010)
68 mins watched today
Killing Gaza (2018)
64 mins watched today
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)
57 mins watched today
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
53 mins watched today
Broken by Battle (2013)
50 mins watched today
Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016)
49 mins watched today
2040: Join The Regeneration (US-Only) (2020)
46 mins watched today
D’autres Mondes (Other Worlds) (2004)
45 mins watched today
In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)
44 mins watched today
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
Our mission is to empower citizens with the knowledge and perspectives essential to creating a more
compassionate, just, regenerative, and democratic society
.
Learn
more.
Art by Jessica Perlstein
Top Contributing Members
Films For Action
3241 videos
2637 articles
Andrew Butler
1791 videos
1402 articles
Tim Hjersted
166 videos
361 articles
A Cause For Ideas
283 videos
4 articles
Abby M
364 videos
Matthew Toplikar
137 videos
50 articles
Sustainable Human
69 videos
24 articles
Zetan Priest
240 videos
Dan Weingarten
48 videos
Evolutionary Life Architecture
70 videos
5 articles
Explore by Topic
Activism
Animal Rights
Big Ideas
Cities
Climate
Community
Consumerism
Corporations
Culture
Economics
Education
Empire
Environment
Food
Gender
Globalization
Health
Human Rights
Indigenous Issues
Media
Media Literacy
Permaculture
Philosophy
Police & Prisons
Politics
Social Issues
Solutions
Sustainability
Technology
The Big Picture
Transition
Vision
War & Peace
×
Log In
Sign In
Save
Saved
×
Video Info
Date Added
Views
Length
min
Topics
×
Share