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I want to talk a little about narcissistic personality disorder. I’ve unfortunately had a great deal of experience with it, and I’m feeling badly for those of you who are trying to grapple with it for the first time because of our president-elect, who almost certainly...
N Ziehl · 35,938 views
When Nelly encouraged overheated people worldwide to get naked in 2002, he was unknowingly advocating much more than just a sexy, sweaty dance party. Sunbathing, sleeping, working out, and lounging around in the buff actually provide legitimate health benefits.
While you...
Joni Sweet · 35,930 views
French photographer Xavier Hubert Brierre travelled to Gabon with his wife and set up a mirror in several locations in order to capture animals walking by. Their vastly varied responses to their reflections are fascinating. You can see longer clips of what he found on his...
2 min · 35,888 views
"Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands...
4 min · 35,884 views
Leaving behind their cosmopolitan life, a couple and their three young children travel the ends of the earth searching for a new perspective on life. In their five-year journey across six continents, they live with some of the oldest indigenous communities on the planet. From...
90 min · 35,827 views
In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...
31 min · 35,787 views
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee · 35,696 views
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) presents his take on the gap between rich and poor Americans in Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Gibney contends that America's richest citizens have...
59 min · 35,601 views
My favorite definition of privilege is 'thinking something's not a problem because it's not a problem to you.'
Tim Hjersted ·
35,589 views
Former Walmart executive recounts how he would watch Associates sit in the break room during their lunch hour without eating because they couldn't afford food. Walmart banned management from offering Associates any money to buy lunch. Walmart's corporate philosophy is to "do...
11 min · 35,588 views
The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as comically pathetic yet still endearing. Their...
22 min · 35,568 views
Having compassion leads to increased happiness, freedom from gender stereotypes, and better relationships with others.
Kozo Hattori · 35,564 views
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and...
105 min · 35,530 views
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...
Martin Winiecki · 35,530 views
Humanity's ascent is often measured by the speed of progress. But what if progress is actually spiraling us downwards, towards collapse? Ronald Wright, whose best-seller, A Short History Of Progress inspired Surviving Progress, shows how past civilizations were destroyed by...
82 min · 35,446 views
Trees are considered sacred in many cultures. Tree worship, in one form or another, has been practiced almost universally by ancient peoples in every corner of the globe.
Jocelyn Mercado · 35,439 views
“What has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority of those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are exploited don't strike.” - Wilhelm Reich "The Mass Psychology of...
5 min · 35,402 views
Private probation companies charge excessive fees to low income people who can't pay small fines like traffic tickets. If they can't pay, they go to jail.
14 min · 35,364 views
9/11 has always been one of the most difficult subjects for news organizations to cover with integrity. The majority of media has forced the debate into two black and white extremes: either Osama bin Laden did it and the government is blameless or "the government did it"...
"BREAKING THE SILENCE is a film with enormous emotional power, bringing us the human consequences of our military attacks on Middle East countries. It also provides us with important insights into the reasons for these cruelties, exposing the emptiness and hypocrisy of the...
51 min · 35,272 views
The social psychology of conformity affects us all, but there are ways to maintain our independence, as explained in this animated short.
10 min · 35,267 views
Time to dig deep, dig in, and double down
Liam Miller · 35,222 views
This is a clip from the beginning of the 3-part film HUMAN, which was released for free online in 2015. You can watch the series here.
3 min · 35,210 views
If you want to sustain yourself for the work ahead, here’s some advice: It doesn’t matter whether the other side “deserves” anger.
Colin Beavan · 35,049 views
Monday, October 12th is Columbus Day, which we have celebrated in this country since the eighteenth century... and that's probably long enough. When you find out the actual facts of what Columbus did when he got to America, you'll find one of the darkest chapters in American...
9 min · 35,006 views
"Super Size Me" is one man's journey into the world of weight gain, health problems and fast food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide and by subjecting himself to a 'McDonald's only' diet for thirty days...
100 min · 34,985 views
The following video explores the influence billionaires have had through massive public relations campaigns, fake "grass roots" movements like the Tea Party, and funding of right-libertarian organizations like FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity. Featuring: Noam...
20 min · 34,980 views
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...
82 min · 34,954 views
The model takes the idea of farm-to-table to the next level.
Joseph Erbentraut · 34,911 views
The definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics by Jonathan Shockley. If you like it, consider buying the high quality DVD or donating a few $ at http://goldenruledocumentary.blogspot.com/
87 min · 34,885 views
There are over 4,500 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness of just about every topic related to making the world a better place. You've probably already seen our top 100 documentaries feature. Here are our 100...
George Carlin talks about how corporations and business interests have Americans "by the balls." Carlin says the people that run this country want nothing more than "obedient workers" and now they want our social security money and retirement. "It's a big club and you and I...
4 min · 34,846 views
Are you a Highly Empathic Person? Discover the traits of those who are, and learn how we can use empathy to support both others and ourselves. Learn more here.
4 min · 34,832 views
Sagan's ability to convey his ideas allowed many people to understand the cosmos better—simultaneously emphasizing the value and worthiness of the human race, and the relative insignificance of the Earth in comparison to the Universe. He hosted and, with Ann Druyan, co-wrote...
4 min · 34,819 views
Cathy Newman's full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America's foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
17 min · 34,812 views
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR WORLD? THIS IS A FILM FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW."
78 min · 34,783 views
After witnessing the "violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget - a founding father of child psychology - observed something profound about human nature: Our sense of ownership emerges incredibly early. But why do we...
4 min · 34,729 views
The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked.
Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen · 34,639 views
THE CHILD MAY NOT REMEMBER, BUT THE BODY REMEMBERS.
2 min · 34,608 views
Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, says many Europeans' fear of refugees boils down to the idea of the "precariat" - people whose lives are marked by precariousness, anxiety and fear. As more EU countries raise walls and the backlash against...
3 min · 34,607 views
For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son...
10 min · 34,599 views
Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video...
5 min · 34,573 views
After you watch this, you may never view the way our culture communicates the same way again.
15 min · 34,474 views
This is a powerful 10-part compilation that (in important ways) pulls aside the veil of Official myths and Lies about "freedom", "democracy", Human Rights, etc., being the basis of U.S. foreign policy.
118 min · 34,435 views
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water.
75 min · 34,383 views
On a remote mountaintop of the Himalayas sits Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “The Garden of Love and Compassion”), a special school and home for 85 abandoned and neglected children.
Founded by former Buddhist monk Lobsang Phunstok, who trained under the Dalai Lama, this unique...
40 min · 34,348 views
When people in the West throw their clothes away, their cast-offs often go on a journey east, across the oceans, to India’s industrial interior. From the Kutch District of western India to the northern city of Panipat, garment recyclers turn into yarn the huge bales of...
13 min · 34,240 views
Narrated by Oscar winning actor Morgan Freeman, the film follows The Global Commission on Drug Policy on a mission to break the political taboo over the United States led War on Drugs and expose what it calls the biggest failure of global policy in the last 40 years.
2 min · 34,208 views
Ignoring the memory of the over 1,100 factory workers that passed away at the Rana Plaza Factory collapse in Savar, Bangladesh last month, at least 14 maj
Omar Rivero · 34,132 views
Mother: Caring for 7 Billion is an award-winning human rights film that explores the challenges we face living in a world of 7 billion. It tells the story of Beth, an American mother and child's right activist, and her journey to understand how overpopulation is impacting...
69 min · 34,123 views
On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline’s construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken...
8 min · 34,118 views
The U.S. is about to attack Syria. Here’s what you need to know:
Washington's Blog · 34,092 views
Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris presents an amazing documentary about Robert McNamara, U.S. Secretary of State, 1961-68. The film opens the door into what was really going on when the Kennedy Administration handled the Cuban Missile Crisis... as well as how Vietnam...
107 min · 34,050 views
Jesus Camp is a 2006 documentary directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a Pentecostal/ charismatic summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their "prophetic gifts" and being taught that they can "take back America for Christ." According...
2 min · 34,037 views
Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...
4 min · 34,007 views
Examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality.
Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and...
5 min · 33,996 views
THE EVILNESS OF POWER examines the ways in which power and hierarchy affect individuals, society, and the world at large. It's possibly the best film on the subject ever made. Produced by Jonathan Shockley.
92 min · 33,996 views
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature-length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials...
90 min · 33,929 views
'Business leaders who refuse to look into the realities of their own supply chains are misguided and irresponsible.'
Deirdre Fulton · 33,906 views
This excerpt from The Black Power Mixtape features a powerful interview with Angela Davis in 1972 in which she speaks about violence, which is still relevant today.
8 min · 33,876 views