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The Big Idea of 2010: The Empathic Civilization (Full Presentation)
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Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
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The Vanishing of The Bees (trailer)
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The Vanishing of the Bees, a feature-length documentary, takes a piercing look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a keystone species vital to sustaining our ecosystem.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, this phenomenon has brought beekeepers to crisis in an industry responsible for producing apples,broccoli, watermelon, onions, cherries, almonds and a hundred other fruits and vegetables. Commercial honeybee operations pollinate crops that provide one out of every three...
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The Age of Transitions
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Converging technology, transhumanism, and our future in the making. The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics. What one must realize before getting carried away with such utopian dreams is that transhumanism was born out of the elitist pseudo-science eugenics. This documentary provides vital information on the history of eugenics and its new cutting edge transformation.
Featuring: Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Dr. Professor Kevin Warwick,...
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Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance
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KOYAANISQATSI, Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the QATSI trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds -- urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass.
KOYAANISQATSI attempts to reveal the beauty of the beast! We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive. If one...
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Peter Joseph: Where Are We Now?
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This 70 minute presentation by Zeitgeist/Zeitgeist: Addendum creator Peter Joseph was given on July 25th 2009 in London, and expands on the ideas presented in the Zeitgeist Movement Orientation Presentation. A must watch for those keeping up with the series of films. Topics include: There is no "they." What are the root causes of our global problems? Why traditional green activist organizations do not go far enough with proposed solutions for change. The monetary system. The fundamental influence that human behavior and our social conditioning...
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Teenage Affluenza! What Can You Do To Help?
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Are you suffering from teenage affluenza? Do you know anyone that is? This video takes a satirical look at the modern and very serious problem of Western affluence, and how the consumer-oriented values and culture of Western economies are having detrimental effects on our children's ability to feel empathy, to realize what's really important in life, and to care about the "we" more than the "me." Despite the complaints we, in the Western world, have about our ailing economy, by relative standards most of us all lead incredibly fortunate lives...
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Earth Days (trailer)
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Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carsons incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
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Wake Up Call
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Wake Up Call compiles the best clips from the most important documentaries into a single presentation that exposes the interlocking and shared ideological interests held by people in the highest positions of power - corporate, governmental, and financial. The film explains the methods used to advance this common ideological agenda, and why it’s so essential for us to come together as a collective and stop it. An ideal crash course for those still unaware of the monumental plight humanity faces today.
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What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (trailer)
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A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate
Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas Berry, William Catton, Ran Prieur and Richard Manning. Produced by Sally Erickson. Written, Directed, and Edited by Tim Bennett. This is one of Films For Action's favorite films.
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The Zeitgeist Movement: Orientation Presentation
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The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the reality that the human species has the ability to...
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The Crash Course
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In "The Crash Course", Chris Martenson presents an in-depth consideration of the Economy, Energy, and the Environment. Not only does he explain the fundamental causes of the current economic crisis, but he also demonstrates how the problems facing the economy are related to concurrent issues regarding our sources of energy and climate change. The information provided is eye-opening and vital to understanding the world in which we live and how that world will change in the near future.
Presented as a concise and easy-to-understand...
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Interview with Peter Joseph, Director of Zeit Geist
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This is a three part interview with Peter Joseph, director of "Zeitgeist, The movie" and 'Zeitgeist: Addendum" and features a range of commentary and added perspective on the two films. Click the website link to watch parts 2 & 3. This interview was done by Karen Frandsen from Eerie Investigations' and will broadcast in the United Kingdom on Edge Media TV.
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The 11th Hour
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Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this captivating documentary explores the perilous state of our planet, and the means by which we can change our course. Contributing to this crucial film are noted politicians, scientists and other ambassadors for the importance of a universal ecological consciousness. The 11th Hour is directed by Nadia Connors and Leila Conners Peterson and features narration from Academy Award® Nominee Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed, Blood Diamond). The environmentally friendly DVD packaging is produced with 100% certified...
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Zeitgeist: Addendum
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Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, Corporate America and others, concluding the advocation of a libertarian movement called the Venus Project, created by social engineer Jacque Fresco. The movie was released free online on October 4, 2008. According to director Peter Joseph, the film attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption that exists in...
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Zeit Geist
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Zeitgeist, produced by Peter Joseph, was created as a nonprofit expression to inspire people to start looking at the world from a more critical perspective and to understand that very often things are not what the population at large think they are. The information in Zeitgeist was established over a year long period of research. Important Author Note: It is my hope that people will not take what is said in the film as the truth, but find out for themselves, for truth is not told, it is realized.
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The Corporation
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The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role it plays in society and our everyday lives. This is part 1 of 23. For a playlist of all 23 chapters in order, please click on the website link to the right.
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A Crude Awakening
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Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, A Crude Awakening tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
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Humankind seen from the Life of Two Rocks
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Apparently, rocks are having conversations all around us, but are talking very, very slowly. "Das Rad" - The Wheel is a German animation short with English subtitles about the evolution of mankind through the vision of ... two rocks. 2003 Academy Award nominee for best animated short film. Really gives one a sense of perspective!
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Derrick Jensen: Endgame part II
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What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it? An excellent presentation by Derrick Jensen, a must watch for everybody who hasn't had the chance to hear Jensen speak in person.
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An Interview with Thomas Berry
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Recording with Thomas Berry, who was interviewed by Caroline Web in February of 2006. Berry is talking about Human-Earth Relations. "The human is here for the perfection of the Earth, not the Earth here for the perfection of the human..." "We can now sum up our situation as this: In the twentieth century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth. And now, the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human."
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