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The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report
The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report
Second Thought explains the IPCC's new climate report.
17 min
Not Going Quietly
Not Going Quietly (trailer)
Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.   
3 min
The Big Scary "S" Word
The Big Scary "S" Word (trailer)
Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.
2 min
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (trailer)
An intimate portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a pioneer on behalf of racial and economic justice and the lone voice in opposition to the authorization of military force after the September 11th attacks.
3 min
Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot
Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot
“They are entirely complicit”
10 min
How Finland Ended Homelessness
How Finland Ended Homelessness
Second Thought explains how Finland ended homelessness.
14 min
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage
The Australien Government has made an ad about Carbon Capture and Storage, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
5 min
Death by Pollution
Death by Pollution (2021)
Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...
10 min
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot
“They allowed this entire shitfest to happen"
10 min
Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative
Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative
The film about Afghanistan that corporate media, war profiteers, conservatives, centrists, and establishment liberals do not want you to see.
10 min
‘I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi’: An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out
‘I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi’: An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out
Jenn Budd is a former senior U.S. Border Patrol agent turned migrant rights activist. She spoke to Dena Takruri about what she calls a racist, sexist and corrupt culture inside the agency.
11 min
COVID-19, Capitalism and the Pandemic of Endless War
COVID-19, Capitalism and the Pandemic of Endless War
If you think police budgets are out of hand, wait until you hear about the military. A Gravel Institute documentary on the links between the pandemic, power, and capitalism.
8 min
How to Defeat PragerU: The Gravel Institute
How to Defeat PragerU: The Gravel Institute
There's a big problem on the internet: right-wing groups like PragerU pour lies and disinformation into the feeds of every American. H Jon Benjamin (of Bob's Burgers and Archer) explains how The Gravel Institute is fighting back.
2 min
Sustenance
Sustenance (2020)
A challenge instigated by a group of friends with different diets and eating habits takes the viewers of Sustenance on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability. Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food's journey around the world and its...
88 min
Exterminate All The Brutes
Exterminate All The Brutes (2021) (trailer)
Exterminate All the Brutes is an eye-opening journey through time, offering an incisive look at the history of European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. The groundbreaking series explores the lasting impact of exploitation and genocide on society today, pushing the...
3 min
The Murderous Police Gangs of Los Angeles
The Murderous Police Gangs of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, America’s second largest city, has a horrible secret. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department – the fourth largest police department in the country – harbors dozens of criminal gangs within its ranks. These LASD gangs have been involved in assaults, the...
19 min
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint
Everybody keeps telling us to cut our carbon footprints. So how guilty should I feel about my personal emissions? And what's Big Oil got to do with it? We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.
13 min
Why the United States Is Killing the World
Why the United States Is Killing the World
Why United States imperialism is causing climate change, explained.
13 min
Why your Carbon Footprint is a Scam
Why your Carbon Footprint is a Scam
Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained.
11 min
How The US Should Have Spent The Afghanistan War Budget
How The US Should Have Spent The Afghanistan War Budget
If you’ve turned on the news in the last few weeks, you’ve probably seen plenty of coverage of the disastrous situation in Afghanistan. Two decades and over two trillion dollars later, what does the US - or Afghanistan - have to show for our brutal and prolonged occupation?...
18 min
Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
A story about Johnny Harris, propaganda and misinformation on YouTube.  We also very briefly touch upon the notions of "shareholder capitalism" and "stakeholder capitalism" which Harris discusses in his "How China Became So Powerful" before considering what Harris'...
34 min
A Viral Tale
A Viral Tale (2021)
An animated story in rhyme, about these very strange times.
8 min
River of Renewal: United by Water, Divided by People
River of Renewal: United by Water, Divided by People (2009)
River of Renewal chronicles the long conflict over the 10 million acre Klamath River Basin, which spans the Oregon-California border. Competing demands for water, food, and energy have pitted farmers, American Indians, and commercial fishermen against each other for decades.
55 min
A New Economy
A New Economy (2016)
What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity before the bottom line, they are finding their place in a new economy no longer dominated by...
85 min
The REAL Reason Why Cannabis is Banned | Johann Hari
The REAL Reason Why Cannabis is Banned | Johann Hari
SPOILER: it’s not because it’s bad for you…
6 min
Why Jeff Bezos’ Space Dream is Humanity's Nightmare | George Monbiot
Why Jeff Bezos’ Space Dream is Humanity's Nightmare | George Monbiot
“We would live under their total unmediated control”
12 min
The Market Gardener's Toolkit
The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018)
An educational film in which small-scale organic farmer, educator and author Jean-Martin Fortier shares the tools and techniques used on his highly productive 1.5-acre farm. From soil preparation to strategies on dealing with insect pests, discover how this micro-farm manages...
79 min
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic
The Permaculture Orchard: Beyond Organic (2018)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a feature-length educational film that will teach you how to set up your own permaculture orchard at any scale. Recognizing the limitations of the organic model as a substitute to conventional fruit growing, this film proposes a...
115 min
Earth's Greatest Enemy
Earth's Greatest Enemy (trailer)
A new documentary by Abby Martin exposing the world's biggest polluter: the US military.
2 min
What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop?
What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)
Double Down News asked DMC from Run DMC about Hip Hop today, and he didn't hold back.
11 min
CIA Stories: The Cuban Who Conned the CIA
CIA Stories: The Cuban Who Conned the CIA
Amidst Biden's new regime change operation in Cuba, Abby Martin brings you an exclusive interview with the Cuban double agent who infiltrated the CIA and revealed the US plots we are seeing play out today.
16 min
Gather
Gather (2020)
From Executive Producers Jason Momoa and Brian Mendoza comes this new film, which follows the stories of Native Americans on the frontlines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated by genocide. An Indigenous chef embarks...
74 min
Envy | ContraPoints
Envy | ContraPoints (2021)
Starting at the surface with celebrity gossip, then spiraling into the inferno of the human psyche. Virgil, get me out of here.
109 min
Bison Nation: Walking Sacred Sites
Bison Nation: Walking Sacred Sites (2012)
We are still here. This is our story, the story of the bison, who inhabit the Northern Hemisphere. You might also know us as buffalo, tatanka, zubr, wisent, basha, Inii, ethanon, tatanga, Wisent... It is a comical story, because sometimes we are caught in politics...
12 min
The Misguided Fixation on Racial Disparities — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels
The Misguided Fixation on Racial Disparities — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels
On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels discuss the trouble with disparity and how antiracism has come to play a role in upholding capitalism in the twenty-first century.
21 min
Call of Duty Is Imperialist Propaganda
Call of Duty Is Imperialist Propaganda
Brandon Sonju breaks down how video games — and, in particular, first-person shooters like Call of Duty — function as propaganda for American empire, and discusses how people can enjoy entertainment while also recognizing the parts of it that reflect what's wrong with the...
27 min
Why Didn't America Adopt Socialism?
Why Didn't America Adopt Socialism?
America has been the world's largest economy for nearly a century, with one of the largest working classes on Earth. So how come socialism never took hold in America as much as it did in Europe and Asia? Why is there no “labor party” in the United States? And what exactly is...
7 min
Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here's Why It Still Exists.
Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here's Why It Still Exists.
Why (and how) Planned Obsolescence and Capitalism make terrible products.
11 min
How We End Consumerism: The Degrowth Movement Shows a Way
How We End Consumerism: The Degrowth Movement Shows a Way
How we end consumerism, explained.
12 min
Powerful Christian Nationalists in Military See Trump as Vehicle for Authoritarian Religious State
Powerful Christian Nationalists in Military See Trump as Vehicle for Authoritarian Religious State (2021)
Christian fundamentalist nationalists in the senior ranks of the military, see Trump as an instrument of God’s plan to create an authoritarian Christian state. The military allows active proselytizing and recruitment of soldiers, contrary to the constitutional separation of...
58 min
Desert Apocalypse: How Solar Projects Affect Desert Habitats
Desert Apocalypse: How Solar Projects Affect Desert Habitats (2022)
The award-winning film series Desert Apocalypse is back for a second season. In this episode we travel to the Pahrump Valley and up to Beatty, Nevada to look at the landscapes threatened by solar. In the Pahrump Valley at the Yellow Pine Solar project site, we see a few...
15 min
Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated.
Is Recycling Worth It Anymore? The Truth Is Complicated.
America produces more waste per capita than any other country in the world. And recycling, which was once considered the solution to that problem, isn’t really working anymore. Recycling works, but it’s not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste...
16 min
Should We Rethink American Policing?
Should We Rethink American Policing?
American police have become yet another battleground in the pointless culture war. In this episode, we'll take a look at some of the characteristics of policing in America, the problems we face, and how we might solve them to the benefit of the whole society - including the...
13 min
Is Capitalism Actually Efficient?
Is Capitalism Actually Efficient?
How many times have you heard the claim that capitalism is the most efficient system for the production and allocation of goods and services? It's a very common talking point in the "western world," especially in the United States. In this video, Second Thought deconstructs...
16 min
Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
Why Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than You Think
"Plastic pollution, explained. In this Our Changing Climate video essay, I look at an aspect of plastic pollution that often is ignored in the face of plastic pollution in the ocean. While ocean plastic pollution is an important issue, plastic is actually a fossil fuel...
13 min
CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan
CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan
As the US Empire makes its major military retreat from Afghanistan, learn about the CIA forces that will be staying behind—and their disturbing 20-year track record of war crimes. 
17 min
THE CON - Episode 1 of 5
THE CON - Episode 1 of 5 (2021)
An in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making. Through interviews with regulators, former officials, foreclosure victims, industry whistleblowers, and journalists, THE CON connects the dots to what America used to be and where we’re headed...
122 min
THE CON
THE CON (2020) (trailer)
The American Dream Dies Where Power Lies From writer/director Eric Vaughan, producer Patrick Lovell and executive producer Adam Bronfman, The Con is an in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making,  Who did it, why it happened and how our...
3 min
Biological Warfare and the Lab Leak Hypothesis
Biological Warfare and the Lab Leak Hypothesis
Over the past 15 months, the official narrative surrounding the origins of Covid-19 has completely flipped...why is that? This is a complex, controversial, and convoluted topic, but here’s my attempt at a concrete analysis of the situation. I’d love to hear your thoughts in...
17 min
Honest Government Ads | 5 Year Special!
Honest Government Ads | 5 Year Special!
The "Honest Government Ad" series by The Juice Media just celebrated its 5 year anniversary!
17 min
Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t
Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t
The Australien Government has made an ad about how it makes everything good, shit - and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
5 min
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
"When today's stories of crushing greed and endless growth have come to an end, what, then, will be the new stories?" This film was created as an educational tool that can be used to move us beyond disempowerment, in order to enact real change in a changing world. Chris...
35 min
Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel
Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel (2017)
In 2016, Rabbi Dov Taylor invited a group of Americans to join him on a tour of Israel and Palestine. This 12-day excursion was not planned as a sight-seeing tour, though there were plenty of sights to see. Rather, the purpose was to introduce tour members to Palestinians...
57 min
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault (trailer)
A filmmaker tries to cope with the aftermath of her own sexual assault while filming first-hand testimonies ––ranging from a nurse that performed her own rape kit to a pedophile molested as a child. Hold Me Right follows both survivors and perpetrators through the harrowing...
3 min
In the Land of My Ancestors
In the Land of My Ancestors
In the Land of My Ancestors celebrates the living legacy of Ann Marie Sayers, an indigenous Ohlone elder. Ohlone people are not federally recognized as indigenous nations in the San Francisco Bay Area. This documentary short reveals the resilience and tenacity of Ann Marie as...
9 min
How The World Went Mad - Animated Docuseries
How The World Went Mad - Animated Docuseries (2018) (trailer)
How the World Went Mad is a five-part animated docuseries that combines satire and science to explore the wave of political insanity sweeping the globe.
10 min
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...
53 min
CIA Stories: The CIA is Born
CIA Stories: The CIA is Born
Abby Martin introduces the first installment of a new Empire Files series about the CIA explaining why the agency was created, and how it became the most nefarious criminal organization in the world, with CIA expert Douglas Valentine.
24 min
How Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)
How Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)
"In this video essay, I look at why capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change. Specifically, I look at how capitalism's multinationals like ExxonMobil and BP are responsible for increased emissions and ultimately the climate crisis we are living...
14 min
Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere
Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere (2021)
We live on a finite planet. What happens to yesterday's shiny new thing that is today's cast-off? What happens to "throw away", when there is no away?
4 min