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Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

With God on Our Side (2010)

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

The Israeli Lobby (2007)

The Zionist Story (2009)

Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth (2009)

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

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

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

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Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)

The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

Food Inc. (2008)

Gratitude Revealed (2022)

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

The Lottery of Birth (2013)

Shadows of Liberty: The Truth Behind the News Media (2012)

The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes (2015)

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

Sicko (2007)

Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)

Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

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

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)

What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilization?

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

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

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

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

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

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

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

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

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

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

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

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

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

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

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

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

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

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Dan West

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

George Lakey

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

Jim Tull

How to Win: Lessons From the Zad

Greg Frey

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

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

Russell Means

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

Films For Action

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Films For Action

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Bosom Buddies: A Photo History of Male Affection

Brett & Kate Mckay

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

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

Michael E Sparks

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

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)

Solidarity Theory

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

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

Solidarity Means to Leave No One Behind. Beyond Citizenships and Across Borders.

Solidarity Is About What You Do - Not Who You Are.

6 Portraits of the Solidarity Economy

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

Unlearning Together: A Quest for Those Who No Longer Want to Suppress Their Experience of the Essential

The Revolutionary Potential of Solidarity Economy

Reimagine Work: Baking Without a Boss

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

Solidarity: Five Largely Unknown Truths about Israel, Palestine and the Occupied Territories (2020)

Connecting to "Them"

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Towards a New Co-Existence: On Reframing Our Ecological Crises

Towards a Synthesist Movement

Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation

There Is No One Right Way to Live | The Ideas of Daniel Quinn

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

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

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn: The New Renaissance

The Culture of Maximum Harm

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

When a Whole Generation of Youth "Feels Cheated," That's Something Worth Paying Attention To

The River of Vision: "If the World is Saved it Won't be Saved by Old Minds with New Programs."

The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael

Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action

The Corporation (2003)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

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

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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

Earthlings (2005)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)

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

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Guides

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

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

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World

Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons

Six Rules for Organizing a Grassroots Regeneration Revolution

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

What Does It Take to Start a Worker Co-Op? A Practical Video Guide to Democratizing Our Economy

5 Guiding Principles for Social Justice

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

A Do No Harm, but Take No Sh*t Guide to Dealing With Others.

Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap For Radicals

How to Not Be Offended

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

10 Things to Know About Nonviolent Struggle

The Feynman Technique - 3 Steps to Learning Something New

How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

Wendell Berry: 17 Rules for a Sustainable Local Community

5 Steps to Turn Your Business into a Worker-owned Co-op

4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

Lao Tzu's Four Rules for Living

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

The Most Amazing Guide to Leadership Ever

Guide to Building a Solidarity Network

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