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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)

Trailers

Forks Over Knives (2011)

Catastroika (2012)

We Belong to the Earth (2018)

Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)

The Botany of Desire (2009)

INDIAN GIVERS

Belo Monte: After the Flood (2016)

Awra Amba: Utopia in Ethiopia (2010)

Going Gonzo: Independence Day Part I | the Timeliners

The Great Disconnect (2020)

License To Parent (2018)

MILLIONS MARCH: Our Day of Anger and Hope

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)

New Documentaries

Power 2 the People (2013)

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

Tribes on the Edge (2021)

Food, Inc. 2 (2024)

SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)

Britain's Ultra Nationalists (2019)

Israel: Above the law? (2024)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)

The Stones Cry Out: The Story Of Palestinian Christians (2013)

In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)

The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)

Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017)

The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)

LAST CALL! (2022)

Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)

The Sanctuary (2022)

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

Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)

The Settlers (2016)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

The Medicated Child (2008)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Creating Conscious Communities

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Core Nonviolence Commitments

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Nonviolent Lives: Stories for Teaching Nonviolence

How Our Language Makes It Easy to Be Violent

Building New 'Nonviolent Cities'

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Why We Need to Move Closer to King's Understanding of Nonviolence

Unity and Diversity in the Land of Nonviolence

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

What It Means To Communicate

Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones

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

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

Paul Harrison

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk

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

Saib Bilaval

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

Charles Eisenstein

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

David Cain

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

Yasha Levine

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

George Lakey

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

Eric Michael Johnson

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

Films For Action

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

Daniel Quinn

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

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Indigenous Stories and Perspectives

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Down To Earth (2020)

Schooling the World (2010)

Song From the Forest (2013)

Ever the Land (2015)

Aluna: A Journey to Save the World (2012)

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

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

Invasion: In an Era of Reconciliation, Indigenous Land is Being Taken at Gunpoint (2019)

PACHAKUTEC - Time of Change (2011)

Protecting Country (2018)

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

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Honey At The Top (2016)

Seeds Of Change (2014)

Red Cry (2013)

Utopia (2013)

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

Developing Skills of the Heart

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

What It Really Means to Hold Space for Someone

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

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

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

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

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

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

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Do You Have Time to Love?

Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

The Demand to be Safe in a Relationship Inevitably Breeds Sorrow and Fear

Wanted: Men Who Love

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

What It Means To Communicate

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Control is a Trap

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

Free Indie Documentaries

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

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

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

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

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Imperialism

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

Schooling the World (2010)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Obey (2013)

War By Other Means (1992)

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (2020)

US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)

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

Trending Documentaries

Surviving Progress (2011)

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Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

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

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Schooling the World (2010)

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

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

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Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Imprint (2023)

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475 (2013)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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A Fall From Freedom (2011)

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9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2010)

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Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

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Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

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

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Israelism (2023)

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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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