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In 2008, the world’s food system began to fall apart. However, threatened with hunger, rich countries have started buying up and leasing fertile tracts of the developing world.
58 min · 3.8 stars
A five-part Norwegian documentary series examining the lives of sweatshop workers in Cambodia through the eyes of three young, relatively wealthy Norwegian citizens. From the day they arrive in Cambodia they begin to see how different their lives are from the lives of people...
60 min · 3.8 stars
This film covers cutting-edge perspectives in the areas of child development, education, sustainability, cultural change, and economics.
It was produced for the 11th International Conference on Behavior Studies, November 2014.
20 min · 3.8 stars
Who Rules America? takes a comprehensive look into the governing system of the United States of America and reveals the behind-the-scene powers that rule the nation.
150 min · 3.8 stars
This video sheds light into the nature of love, relationships, the "New Age" movement, reality-creation, quantum physics, objectivity vs. subjectivity and how it all relates to the topics of "conspiracy theories", psychopathy, and the importance of esoteric self-work. "Love...
77 min · 3.8 stars
The American Ruling Classis one of the most unusual films to be made in America in recent years -- both in terms of form and content. The form is a "dramatic-documentary-musical" and the content is our country's most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally...
89 min · 3.8 stars
An anti-civ documentary by Thomas Toivonen. Covering various issues such as environmental destruction, indigenous struggles, anarcho-primitivism and much more. Featuring John Zerzan, Layla AbdelRahim and other prominet primitivist thinkers.
99 min · 3.8 stars
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100 min · 3.6 stars
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865...
85 min · 3.7 stars
"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 · 3.6 stars
Join gonzo journalist Brendon (aka Skull Babylon) as he sets off on a journey to reunite with long lost new found friends and spirit family at the Three Days of Light consciousness festival and retreat. Synopsis: Through this story we see first hand accounts of the youth and...
80 min · 3.7 stars
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO...
80 min · 3.7 stars
GasHole is a new documentary film about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of our dependence on foreign supplies of Oil. What are the causes that led from America turning from a leading exporter of...
98 min · 3.6 stars
Feeding Ourselves weaves intimate stories from the hopes and convictions of rural BC farmers and producers as they navigate undercurrents of uncertainty with our food system. Their commitment to local food culture inspires us to appreciate the significance and potential of...
96 min · 3.7 stars
Derek Hallquist is an earnest young filmmaker who wants to get to the bottom of the energy debate. How is the world going to become a truly responsible consumer of energy? Is it even possible? While searching for answers to these burning questions, Derek decides to make a...
92 min · 4 stars
Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This documentary explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more...
59 min · 4 stars
Immuto (Change), is a response to the climate emergency and global environmental collapse.
45 min · 4 stars
"This sweeping documentary takes us in and under the waters of the Salish Sea, while more fully understanding the threats posed by the Trans Mountain (Ex- Kinder Morgan) pipeline expansion…
88 min · 4 stars
The Monopoly of Violence is a study of police brutality in France, specifically documenting the gilet jaunes protest movement of 2018 and 2019. But the footage could just as easily have been from the United States, or Hong Kong, or Britain. Citing the work of sociologist Max...
106 min · 4 stars
Local activists in Gaza, Germany, and Colombia challenge fossil-fuel dependency and power structures in a struggle for social and climate justice.
77 min · 4 stars
A controversial film experiment, a courageous journey and a unique collaboration between filmmaker and refugee; which is not without consequences. A film by David Fedele & Kumut Imesh.
78 min · 4 stars
Time. What is it? This is such an odd question to ask. But to never inquire into the nature of time is even more strange. We are all subject to time and its process of birth, life, decay, and death. This linear process makes us believe that the nature of time is just linear...
35 min · 4 stars
Filmmaker, Scott Danville creates a film, Halting Hades: The Moral Imperative, documenting the the science, politics, and economics of the world's most important issue, climate change, and the factors that will lead to a revolution through the intersection of science and...
63 min · 4 stars
The term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies. It can, for instance, apply to seeking freedom outside the confines of wage labour, or the creation of liberated common space in the here and now.
32 min · 4 stars
InterReflections is an experimental, mixed genre narrative feature film by Peter Joseph, adapted from his book The New Human Rights Movement. The ambitious, nearly 3 hour work challenges not only contemporary thinking about society, it challenges the very art of filmmaking...
165 min · 3.6 stars
The Fight Of Their Lives documents the citizens fight against a Hazardous Waste Incinerator in Granville County, North Carolina in 1990. But it was more than just a single county's fight, it was a statewide fight that garnered national attention. It shows the many faces...
235 min · 4 stars
A film made by Ayet Alers, documenting the creation of a small natural house, following the process from the start until completion.
48 min · 3.8 stars
Esteban escaped poverty in the ghetto when he was thirteen, by running away from home and joining the FARC guerrilla movement in Colombia.
48 min · 4 stars
Solution-based documentary taking you on a journey of perspectives and insights on the issue of inclusivity and bias in Artificial Intellligence systems.
25 min · 4 stars
This documentary, which was produced and directed by Alfred Birkegaard and Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen, explores how the Internet is changing the way in which we do science and create knowledge. It takes the viewer on a journey from Danish biology papers all the way to...
56 min · 4 stars
A documentary on environmental racism and the successful campaign by a Kansas City community to stop a super-toxic waste dump/landfill from being cited in their community. While this program may seem dated, most of the issues raised by the program persist worldwide.
29 min · 4 stars
The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting deprived societies in hidden corners of the world.
110 min · 4 stars
White Widows portrays the tough and disadvantaged life of Indian cotton farmers in their village Dhanoli located in the region of Vidarbha, well known as the epicentre of farmer suicide.
27 min · 4 stars
Humans and sea turtles in the Mediterranean. A story about coexistence.
35 min · 4 stars
Microplastics have only recently become an issue outside the scientific world. A pioneering researcher in this field, Christian Laforsch is primarily interested in the long-term hazards they pose - something that could assume critical importance for us in the future...
29 min · 4 stars
An examination of the impacts of climate change on increased resource scarcity and migration through the lens of national security and global stability.
66 min · 4 stars
Southern Discomfort is a documentary film that examines white southerners' love affair with the Confederacy. It also examines the role that state governments in the south play in maintaining a distorted and racist mythology about the Civil War.
79 min · 4 stars
Millions of people worldwide are being uprooted from their homes and communities. Central Americans are fleeing from economic precarity, climate disaster as well as state and criminal violence. Most head towards Mexico and the United States in search of a livable life. The...
68 min · 4 stars
Award-winning documentary, The Wild is a race against time. “Newly into addiction recovery, an urgent threat emerges to spur fisherman/filmmaker, Mark Titus back to the wilds of Alaska, where the people of Bristol Bay and its storied wild salmon runs face devastation if a...
64 min · 4 stars
Elliot’s had a frightful epiphany: there are fewer rhinos left in the world than students at his university. So he’s become one, and set out single-minded to save them.
18 min · 4 stars
Ukraine 5.6 is a reflection on war and resilience based on testimonies of Ukraine war survivors. The documentary is a highly emotional tale of grief and survival against all odds. The narrative arc is from darkness to light, from a grave digger at work in a cemetery to an...
90 min · 4 stars
"Awakening of the Soil" is a compelling 42-minute documentary that follows the transformative journey of Barbaros, a skeptical farmer from Edirne, Turkey as he discovers the world of regenerative agriculture with the guidance of his friend, Begonia. Together, they embark on a...
42 min · 4 stars
The film team follows an extraordinary project for peace and empowerment – a ferry with a cooking school for indigenous communities on the Rio Napo in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon forest. The goal of the film's main protagonist David Höner, founder of the Swiss NGO «Cuisine...
55 min · 4 stars
"Last Call!" is a cinematic examination of the question of who determines our future. The filmmakers Esther Petsche and Samuel Schlaefli accompany climate activists, climate researchers and artists during the historic UN climate conference "COP26" in Glasgow and document how...
42 min · 4 stars
Having survived centuries of genocide, Native Americans are now on the frontlines of the final struggle for planetary survival. This film tells the untold story of history's deadliest holocaust, and of an enduring resistance to colonial domination.
53 min · 4 stars
Recounting his love of the water, Ray Lewis, OAM, snorkels among the vibrant sea life of the marine sanctuary he has worked to protect.
Written, Produced and Directed by Tim Brown and Michael Portway
Editor and Sound Design | Tim Brown
Colorist | Michael Portway
Awards...
6 min · 4 stars
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 · 4 stars
Transparent Film / ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
84 min · 4 stars
In a major international investigation, Four Corners reveals the secrets of the Pandora Papers.
43 min · 4 stars
A provocative critique of man’s technological progress.
52 min · 4 stars
Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods.
In Washington, DC, where high school dropout rates average 40%, a group of...
83 min · 4 stars
The Third Harmony tells the story of nonviolence, humanity’s greatest (and most overlooked) resource.
"I am exhilarated and grateful to the filmmakers for bringing forth such a fine gift for the future of life on Earth. Hurray! and deep bows." - Joanna Macy, deep ecologist...
44 min · 4 stars
The following documentary examines far-right radio host Alex Jones, and the affect his fear-mongering and conspiracy theories has had on the public. Also explored is his relationship with Donald Trump, and the numerous contradictions of Alex Jones.
57 min · 3.7 stars
A Force More Powerful is a documentary series on one of the 20th century’s most important and least-known stories: how nonviolent power overcame oppression and authoritarian rule. It includes six cases of movements, and each case is approximately 30 minutes long.
154 min · 4 stars
Does your job make little to no sense? Does it seem like it wouldn't even matter if your job didn't exist? Would it even make the world better? Then you likely have a bullshit job. In this documentary, vpro and American anthropologist, David Graeber looks more closely at...
45 min · 4 stars
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82 min · 4 stars
A Pilgrimage for the healing of the Heart of the Earth.
With love and gratitude, the film is dedicated to Mother Earth, Father Sun and the ancestors
The PACHAKÚTEC signifies in the prophecies of the Inca a time of major, fundamental changes that will lead us into a new era...
88 min · 4 stars
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...
79 min · 4 stars
Black and German: news anchor Jana Pareigis has spent her entire life being asked about her skin color. What is it like to be black in Germany? What needs to change? “Where are you from?”
42 min · 4 stars