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Gasland Part II
Gasland Part II follows on three years later, to continue documenting how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most devastating environmental issues rapidly spreading the globe. This sequel further enriches the argument that the gas industry’s portrayal of...
This Is John Oliver's Epic Treatise Calling On The Internet To Prevent Cable Company F-ckery
Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they're doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren't covering it. John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC.
The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate
Are we competitive, selfish, individualistic creatures by nature? What is human nature, anyway?
Mr. Happy Man
Meet Mr. Happy Man: 88-year-old Bermudian Johnny Barnes devotes six hours every day to an endearing traffic ritual that has made him one of the island’s most cherished citizens. Come rain or shine, he’s there. He stands and blows kisses. This story will make you smile. Every...
The Sacred Balance
Based on David Suzuki's best-selling book of the same name, and filmed on five continents, THE SACRED BALANCE celebrates a new scientific worldview, an inclusive vision of nature in which we human beings are intimately connected to all life processes on Earth.
The Accelerated Crash Course
This 'Accelerated' Crash Course video condenses over 4.5 hours' worth of detailed material on the trends most likely to shape your future into an easy-to-follow exploration that takes less than an hour to view. 
Is Capitalism or 'Crony' Capitalism the True Problem?
Is 'true' capitalism good and crony capitalism the real problem? This debate has been raging for a long time and finally, we have a definitive answer. This video kindly cuts through all of the divisive rhetoric and misunderstandings and offers a constructive path towards...
Earth Pilgrim
A spiritual journey into the ethereal landscape of Dartmoor with Satish Kumar, the world-renowned ecologist & creator of Resurgence magazine. Through changing seasons, Satish walks the moor and explores ancient woods and rivers, home to a wealth of wildlife including red...
Anyone Can Change the World
What if you really could change the world? Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize winner, firmly believes that each and every one of us can and should contribute to creating a better world. In this empowering RSA Short Jody explains why it is so important that we strive to make a...
Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us
In 2003, the United States pre-emptively attacked Iraq in a war that would last for eight years claiming an estimated 189,000 lives, costing over $2 trillion and causing untold economic and emotional devastation for the
Action 4 Climate (trailer)
Youth in 70 countries are calling for climate action with more than 230 documentaries. The response to the Action4Climate competition has been overwhelming. The com
Rap News 24: Israel vs Palestine
Decades of failed peace talks have led nowhere. But do not lose hope just yet: join Robert Foster as he attempts to host the first ever Middle East Peace Raps, using rhyme and reason to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, and a representative of...
A History of the Black Bloc
This week: 1. Madrid resist austerity 2. A History of the Black Bloc 3. Le Peuple de l'Herbe - Parler le fracas 4. Street fighting in Montréal
Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm
What is a steady-state economy and how could it positively impact human behavior and our survival on the planet? 
F-ck The Poor?
A man walks the streets of London shouting #FuckThePoor to see whether we really do care about those less fortunate. He makes a really good point.
Five Steps To Tyranny
This film analyzes the movement of a society from freedom to tyranny in five steps. It clearly shows how those in positions of power may cultivate the conditions of tyranny in any population by demonstrating how easily ordinary people may be manipulated into compliance with...
The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy
Short film about NYPD's stop and frisk policy including a secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action, and a secret audio recording of a performance evaluation meeting at the NYPD headquarters sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young...
Free The Nipple (NSFW) (trailer)
I'm Lina Esco and I'm a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. Last year I dire
What Ads With Half-Naked Women Look Like When They’re Turned Into Men
The first part of this clip gets into the sexism and rape culture around advertising, but what really illustrates the point clearly is the last half.
The Silence of the Pandas - What the WWF Isn’t Saying
** UPDATE 5 JAN 2017 SEE BELOW ** The WWF is the largest environmental protection organisation in the world. Trust in its green projects is almost limitless. Founded in 1961, it is the most influential lobby group for the environment in the world, thanks largely to its...
One Veteran Spoke The Truth And Totally Stunned The Crowd, Then He Brought Them To Their Feet
This clip starting making the rounds while the Iraq War was still going on, and it was so interesting to me because I'd never seen a veteran address these things in such a brutally honest fashion. And I found myself nodding in agreement, even clapping along with the crowd...
Will Work For Free
Will Work For Free is a documentary by Sam Vallely on the subject of technological unemployment. This work is protected under fair use and will always be free.
When You are Seeing Visions of the World in 2048, Remember: One Act of Courage Can Change the World
This is an excerpt from The Fifth Sacred Thing, an upcoming feature film based on the best selling novel by Starhawk, and is set in 2048, where an ecotopian San Francisco defends itself from invaders using nonviolence and healing.
$hift
A global movement is coming together to challenge the fossil fuel industry in a fight for the planet and our future here.
Chipotle Fires First Shot to Take Down Big Food in This Brilliant Short Film
Produced by Chipotle and created by the Academy Award–winning Moonbot Studios - this masterfully animated film feels like more than an implicitly subversive attack on big agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Tyson and Monsanto.
Michael Sandel: Why We Shouldn't Trust Markets with Our Civic Life
In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends on how much money they have. (Three key examples: access to education, access to justice...
42 Amazing Maps
The map, as an innovation, is extremely important. Simply constructing a useful representation of our world onto a piece of paper (or clay or vellum or whatever) vastly increased the capabilities of humankind. But we continue to add and alter this medium, in ways that allow...
The Myth of The Good Guy With a Gun
Jordan Klepper sets out to determine the likelihood of another gun owner stopping an active shooter.
The Living Forest: the Amazonian Tribespeople Who Sailed Down the Seine
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the 'living forest', where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris...
The U.S. School That Trains Dictators & Death Squads
On November 22, thousands gathered at the gates of Fort Benning, GA at the 25th annual protest of the School of the Americas to memorialize the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives at the hands of the U.S. Empire’s brutally repressive juntas it used to rule Latin...
People of Nowhere
I have heard and read different opinions about the wave of Syrian refugees who try to make their way in to the EU. Then I went to Lesvos. 7 days on the Greek Island gave me a healthier, human perspective on the situation.  Seeing the people behind the headlines with my own...
Confessions of a Walmart Hitman
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...
M.I.A. Just Dropped a Killer New Track in Solidarity with Migrants
Borders is dedicated to her uncle Bala, in a tweet posted this morning M.I.A wrote "One of the first Tamil migrants to come to the UK in the '60s who went [on] to inspire so many people as a creative, daring man... Thank you for helping my family come to England and taking us...
What You Need to Know about The Origin of ISIS
Ben Swann explores the origin of ISIS that has already been long forgotten by American media. Swann takes on the central issue of whether or not ISIS was created by "inaction" by the United States government or by "direct" action.
High-Speed Slaughter Hell at Hormel, Makers of SPAM
A Compassion Over Killing investigator worked inside Quality Pork Processors, a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse in Minnesota that exclusively supplies to Hormel, the makers of SPAM. This shocking footage offers a disturbing, close-up view of the suffering endured by pigs as...
Paris Attacks: Isis Has a Strategy. Let's Not Be Part of It
It's easy to see Isis as an irrational death cult, argues Charlie Winter - but its motives in the Paris attack were strategic. The group is trying to achieve polarisation in the west, spread fear, spark military action against it and improve its image.
Paris Attacks: "I Won't Give You the Gift of Hating You"
Antoine Leiris lost his wife Helene in the Bataclan theatre in Paris. His Facebook tribute to his wife and challenge to her killers has since been shared thousands of times.
What Would Happen If Male Athletes Were Asked The Same Questions Female Athletes Are Subjected To?
Something's wrong with media coverage of female athletes. 
6 Problems With Mainstream Media
People are becoming increasingly irritated by the mainstream media, and here are 6 reasons why. 
Caitlin Moran on Everyday Feminism
Bestselling author, feminist and all-round funny woman, Caitlin Moran takes us on a tour of her house and talks us through some of the feminist basics: how being a bit hairier down below could result in a massive telly, Russell Crowe, his wrinkles and some provocative posing...
Corruption Is Legal in America-And It Goes Like This:
WOW! We knew the system was bad, but this is just twisted beyond comprehension! Thank you Represent.Us for making this. More info:
Birdie
Rejected by everyone except for his two dogs, Birdie is a fruit peddler on the chaotic streets of Rio de Janeiro. Heloisa Passos presents this intimate story about friendship and the all too common story of survival for the homeless.
The Cross of the Moment
Fermi's Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse are among the subjects discussed in this feature length documentary on the environmental crisis. Interviewees include Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder, Derrick Jensen, Peter D. Ward, Jill Stein, Bill Patzert, Guy McPherson...
Here the Rain Never Finishes: Exclusive CIA Torture Report From the ACLU
Survivors of Central Intelligence Agency torture are sueing the contractor psychologists who designed one of the most infamous programs of the post-9/11 era. Salim, one of the three ex-detainees in the suit, is a Tanzanian fisherman who says that flashbacks from his ordeal in...
Salute
Salute chronicles Peter Norman's involvement in the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics. The picture of the three men on the winner's podium after the Men's 200m final at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics is still considered one of the most powerful images of modern history...
Maximum Creativity at Minimum Wage
If we are willing to work minimum wage at a dumb job that kills our soul, why not do our art instead, charge minimum wage or $10 an hour for it, gain a following and increase the prices as the art's popularity grows. This plan worked for me, I was tired of my sewing business...
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm
A tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. The 1 acre property has been developed into a productive permaculture farm that is currently feeding around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas...
Australian Comedian Perfectly Sums Up Why Other Countries Think US Gun Laws Are Crazy
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, the shooter was a 20-year-old male, and was killed by officers who...
I LIKE MYSELF
Woman learns to like herself even when others don't always act like they like her. 
Fungus: The Plastic of the Future
Motherboard dives head first into the R+D world surrounding the development of fungi as a viable replacement for plastic, and the people who hope it can lead to a better and more sustainable future.
Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists
At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her culture. Rose welcomes people from all over the world into her home to talk about ancient Maori ways...
How to Feel Good About Poverty
If you want to do more than just feel good, ask the Big Questions about poverty and we can expose its root causes and get real answers about how to stop creating it.
The British Monarchy Explained in 5 Minutes
How much power does the monarch really wield? How much does the Royal family cost us? These and many other questions answered in this video.
Tortured & Enslaved: Enter the World's Biggest Prison System
The Empire holds by far the most prisoners than any other country on earth, in both absolute numbers and per capita. Abby Martin explores the dark reality of America's prisons: their conditions, who is warehoused in them, and how things got this way.
5 Ways America Is Already Socialist
Socialism, turns out the dirtiest word in U.S. politics is as American as apple pie. From the U.S. labor movement to the New Deal to corporate subsidies, America relies on a healthy dose of socialism.
What Humanity Needs to Realize to Live Forever with the Earth
In the end, the lesson our culture needs to learn is simple. But before any meaningful change can happen in our world, we need to learn that lesson.
Akala on Mainstream Media's Coverage of the Baltimore Riots
‘People’s Morality is not in their melanin’. Rapper and writer Akala speak to Going Underground about how the mainstream media’s coverage of the Baltimore riots is devoid of historical context and the reality of life in the racially, economically segregated ghettos of...
In Two Minutes We're Going to Tell You How We Can End Factory farming.
The power is in your hands.