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Israel’s Secret War

Holocaust Survivor Tells Me: Israel Is Committing Genocide - w. Stephen Kapos

US Presidential Candidate Cornel West on Israel-Hamas War, Despair vs Hope and Biden vs Trump

How the US Privatized WAR

Holocaust Survivor Tells Piers Morgan Why He’s Not A Zionist

What This Jewish Professor At Columbia Wants You To Know

Israel Supporters Assault, Spit, Wish R-pe On Protestors

Wallace Shawn SLAMS Israel's 'Horrifying Sadism' & Defends Protests

Jeremy Corbyn on Rafah: "We're Live-Streaming a Genocide"

Israel's Atrocities Exposed By CNN - A Network Defined By Pro-Israeli Bias

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech & The Battle For Palestinian Rights (2019)

John Oliver, Macklemore & Chris Hayes Defend Student Protesters From Media Smears

Biden PANICS Over Israel's Genocide

Honest Government Ad | How to State Capture

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

America's Support for Israel is ONE BIG SCAM

Holocaust Survivor's POWERFUL Message to Gaza Protesters

Pro-Palestinian Demonstrations Surge at US Campuses after Columbia University Arrests

Why Are Palestine Slogans Worse Than Israel’s Genocide?

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

The Lie That Made Food Conglomerates Rich...And Is Slowly Poisoning Us

Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2024) (trailer)

No AI for Genocide: Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Contract with Israeli Military

Gun Violence and Reform

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

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

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Guns in America - A Six Part Series

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

A Brief History of the USA and Guns

Guns in America Vs. the Rest of the World

It's Time to Admit That Toxic Masculinity Drives Gun Violence

The State of Gun Violence in the US, Explained in 18 Charts

Prayer Won't Stop Gun Violence Because The NRA Bought Our Politicians

Are Dead Children the Price of Freedom?

The Best Films For Action

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

29 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

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

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

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

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

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

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

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

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

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

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

The Codes of Gender (2009) (trailer)

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

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

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

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)

Films We're Hosting in The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Together We Grow (2022)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Imprint (2023)

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

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

The Importance of Rites of Passage

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

Initiation Into a Living Planet

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

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

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

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

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Paul Harrison

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Eric Michael Johnson

Bernie Sanders Will Tie Biden in the Final Super Tuesday Results: Why It Looks Good for Sanders

Saib Bilaval

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

George Lakey

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today

Daniel Quinn

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 37 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

Africa Brooke

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

Wisdom Pills

Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self

Charles Eisenstein

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Wondering What to Watch? Try These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

Money & Life (2013)

Down To Earth (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests

Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America

America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness

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

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

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

The Cult of Trump

Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture

Everything Is A Remix (2015)

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

What is Creative Commons?

Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?

Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

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)

Transition Documentaries

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

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Transition

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Occupy Love (2013)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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