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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)

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

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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

Life in Occupied Palestine (2009) (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

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

The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech (2019)

With God on Our Side (2010)

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

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)

Honest Government Ads

Honest Government Ad | 2022 Election (Season 2 Finale)

Honest Government Ads | 5 Year Special!

Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)

Honest Government Ad | Climate Breakdown

Honest Government Ad | Q

Honest Government Ad | My Police State!

Honest Government Ad | TRUMP 2020

Honest Government Ad | War on Satire

Honest Government Ad | The Economy

Honest Government Ad | The Recession

Honest Government Ad | President Trump

Honest Government Ad | The Machine

Honest Government Ad | Julian Assange

Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve

Honest Government Ad | Visit West Papua!

Visit Hawai'i - The Occupied State

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?

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

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

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

The Corporation (2003)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

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

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

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

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

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

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

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

Films For Action

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

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

Bruce E. Levine

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

John F. Schumaker

How the "Mainstream" Media Misleads

5 Short Films, 5 Profound Lessons in Media Literacy

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

Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message

Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News

Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News

How to Read the Signs in the News

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

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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

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)

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

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

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

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Meet The Stans (2003)

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

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Just Do It: A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws (2012)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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

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Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

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How Fascism Serves Capitalism (2023)

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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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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

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Origins (2014)

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

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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

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Broken by Battle (2013)

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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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