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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)

Inspiring Short Films

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

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

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)

Permaculture

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

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

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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)

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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"You Grow Up Wanting to Be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Garret

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Wisdom Pills

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

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

Yasha Levine

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

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

Realists of a Larger Reality: The introduction to Here Be Monsters: How To Fight Capitalism Instead of Each Other

Rhyd Wildermuth

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

Tim Hjersted

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

George Lakey

Yes, Israel Is a Racist State

Khelil Bouarrouj

Awakening to the Blob: How The Media Mediates Our Lives

Maura R. O'Connor

To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

Mandy Len Catron

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

Eric Bowers

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

Kevin A. Carson

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

Elyane Youssef

Every Town Needs a Remakery

Jeremy Williams

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)

Climate Change Documentaries

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

A Climate Of Change (2014)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disruption (2014)

Do the Math (2013)

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012) (trailer)

Tomorrow's Power (2019)

The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Years of Living Dangerously (2014)

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

How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

2040: Join The Regeneration (2020)

Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)

The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)

Before the Flood (2016)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

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

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

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Films For Action's Vision for the Future

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

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New Member Submissions

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

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Gaza Is an Image of the Future

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

How To Resist Radical Evil | Chris Hedges

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