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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?
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)
Videos that Explain Things
How the Rich Keep Us Poor
How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot
How Mindfulness Empowers Us
How Romanticism Ruined Love
This Is Neoliberalism (2020)
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Electronics
Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.
The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy
The Story of Cosmetics
The Story of Change
Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?
Documentary Series
Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series
Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)
In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)
This Is Neoliberalism (2020)
Sustainable Living Series with Rob Greenfield
Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land
Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)
The Battle For New York: A Series on the City's Housing Crisis
How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)
Grow Food Not Lawns!
Gimme Green (2007)
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities
The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia
From Gangs to Gardens (2014)
Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!
The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment
Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)
Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)
How Gardening Helps Students Grow
Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter
Trailers
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Disruption (2014)
Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)
Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022)
Zapatista (1999)
License To Parent (2018)
I Seek Love, Not Privilege: India's First Gay Prince
Men's Madness (1991)
The Climate Changers (2016)
Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)
Thought-Provoking Comics
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Comic Strip of Alan Watts' Lecture: What If Money Was No Object?
Comic: Why You Should Turn Your Yard Into a Mini-Farm
Reclaim May Day
This Zen Comic Is Full of Timeless Life Lessons
Free Trade Explained In An Excellent Comic
On the Mindless Menace of Violence
One Comic Perfectly Sums Up Class Differences in Society
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Comic Explaining Colonialism
Brilliant Comic of Banksy's Call To Arms Against Advertisers
This Comic Shows The Importance of Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve Your Dreams
Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic
What Can One Person Do, When 6.8 Billion are Frying the Planet?
Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman
The Importance of Maintaining a Sense of Wonder and Excitement
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Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians
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Israelism (2023)
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The War Around Us (2013) (trailer)
Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)
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With God on Our Side (2010)
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The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe
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My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation
The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again
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What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
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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
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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
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What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget
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