Library
Filter
View
1,201-1,260 of 10,394
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013
2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.
Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government
"Elections are moments when groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state." - Thomas Ferguson This is a clip from Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). It is possibly the definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics. 
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
In this documentary Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of the secret government. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected, top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret...
Better, Not More
As we assess the current state of our world and consider together the elements that are essential to a ‘just transition’, and ultimately, a just economy, we are called to consider four goals: to decommodify nature, reimagine work, liberate knowledge and democratize wealth...
A.L.F. Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals
Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals is a 2008 documentary film about the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). It took three years of filming, interviewing, and editing to complete. The movie was created by animal-rights lawyer Shannon Keith...
rEVILution: Rise of the Christofascists
The following documentary examines the role Christianity plays in American right-wing politics and the radicalizing effect it has had. Republicans often say that a handful of radicals represent the entire Muslim community. Should Christians be held to the same standard?
Open Up - Have the Difficult But Important Conversations With Loved Ones
“The biggest casualty of humanity is the lack of communication, it’s the thing that breaks most relationships. It just feels so much better to talk and get it out.”
This Homophobic Tumblr Post Transformed Into a Dystopian LGBTI Adventure Novel and It Is Amazing
Sometimes homophobes will try anything to come up with a reasonable argument for why homosexuality is wrong, but it turns out with a little bit of thought that debate is going to be shut down very easily.
The Employment - A Surreal Short Film About the Drudgery of Work
An anonymous man performs his usual trip to work, immersed in a world where the utilisation of people as objects in an everyday thing.
Protests Intensify, Spread Across France as Workers Refuse Submission
'What we want today is for this movement to spread,' says unionist.
The Incredible Period of History After The Civil War That America Forgot
Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day. 
I Believe In The Good Things Coming
Uplifting and inspritational music video from Nahko and Medicine for the People, taken from their album Black as Night. Features footage of the band on the road and the activists and musicians they collaborated with along the way. Themed around homemade signs reading "I...
The New American Century
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders...
If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.
There are myriad reasons why the rallying hashtag for the movement that grew out of ‪#‎Ferguson‬ is ‪#‎BlackLivesMatter‬ and not 
What the Left Gets Wrong About Jordan Peterson
One might think that by now progressives would figure out that vilifying Peterson almost always redounds to his advantage. One would be wrong
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the...
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny
A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union, the health food store, environmental coops and the kindergarden.
After Empowering the 1% and Impoverishing Millions, IMF Admits Neoliberalism a Failure
Last week a research wing of the International Monetary Fund came out with a report admitting that neoliberalism has been a failure. The report, entitled, “Neoliberalism: Oversold?” is hopefully a sign of the ideology's death. They were only about 40 years late. As Naomi...
American Horror Story
I went backstage at the biggest political show on earth- and found America telling stories about itself
The New Mind Manipulators
Your mind is being controlled by distant strangers who don’t have your best interests at heart. If that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, brace yourself and read on. These are the findings of a series of scientific studies that show how a few dominant institutions have the...
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World
Many people do not realize that permaculture is much more than about growing fruit and vegetables, it is a whole view incorporating the environment, energy, resources, housing, technology, education, healthcare, the arts, spirituality, psychology, philosophy and agriculture...
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.
The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World
Part II of The Bloom explores how Transformational Festivals have become incubators and spaces for “Practicing The New World”, where the festivals are produced using a model of CO-CREATION, utilizing an ethos of PARTICIPATION to create these remarkable realities and MODELLING...
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
The System Is Failing. We All Know It. It's Time to Start Talking about What's Next
Growing inequality, political stalemate, and climate disruption prompt an important insight. When the old ways no longer produce the outcomes we are looking for, something deeper is occurring. It is time to explore genuine alternatives and new models-"the next system."
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the...
Slaughterhouse - What The Meat Industry Hides
With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouse is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence...
Why I Am Not Charlie
There is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it.  Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing or enraging, inspiring or offensive; but they exist on a different plane from physical...
Resilience Is Futile: How Well-Meaning Nonprofits Perpetuate Poverty
Two years ago, I was hired as a campaign coordinator for a community initiative in South L.A. I got the job because I’d been an organizer for labor unions, and I was eager and thrilled. I’d be coordinating The Belong Campaign, part
The End of the Line - A World Without Fish (2009) (trailer)
Scientists predict that if we continue fishing as we are now, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048. Oceans without fish. Imagine your meals without seafood. Imagine the global consequences. This is the future if we do not stop, think and act. The End of the...
Jon Stewart Has Some Choice Words for Conservative Pundits Double Standards
Some stories, like the ouster of Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, are too big for one late night host to tackle alone.
Richard Wilkinson: How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
The 'Alpha Dog' Myth Is Leading Countless People to Mistreat Their Dogs
Do you think of yourself as the alpha dog of the house? Do you think it's important to assert your dominance over your dog? Well, you're in for a surprise. 
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.
Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies
This is a short excerpt from Peacemaking.
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience
This is a documentary about getting out into the natural world and learning from the wisdom of land and people - focusing on how rewilding our perception might be the catalyst for the changes we wish to see in the world.
Comic: How Big Media Is Killing Democracy, But The Solution Is Up To Us
Today, six corporations own most of our media—but we could be poised to take it back.
Dear America: Please Get Your Head Out of Your Ass About Bernie Sanders
Seriously, though, come on, guys.
Reza Aslan Challenges the Corporate Media Rhetoric on Islam and Violence
Reza Aslan offers his reaction to Bill Maher's recent remarks regarding the link between violence and Islam.
Blackfish
This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.
I’m a Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps'
It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
I am told by Native American friends active at Standing Rock that the elders are counseling the Water Protectors to undertake each action prayerfully and to stay off the warpath.
Climate of Doubt
Climate of Doubt explores how a movement mobilized to undermine public acceptance of the scientific consensus on global warming.
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
In this video, Professor Angelou recites her poem, "Still I Rise," from her volume of poetry And Still I Rise, published in 1978.
Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth
Watch Budrus for free on the film's official website.
Kill the Messenger (Sibel Edmonds) (2006)
Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and...
TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question
Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and produced three non-commercial, self-produced and freely-distributed documentary films...
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism
College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay. Their duplicity—embodied in politicians such as Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama—succeeded for decades. These elites...
4 Steps to Free Yourself From Overwhelm
Feeling overwhelmed? Here are 4 Steps to get recentered.
Sea The Truth
Sea the Truth is based on numerous scientific publications that examine the problems of seas and oceans. Below follows an overview of the themes addressed in the film and a brief explanation.
Paradise with Side Effects
A documentary following two women from Ladakh, a remote region in the Himalayas, on a reality tour of London to see what life in the West is really like. The tour, sponsored by Local Futures, exposes the women to aspects of modern urban life - homelessness, old-age homes...
The 2nd Revolutionary War
The Department of Homeland Security classifies them as potential “domestic terrorists”; they prefer to be called patriots. As the economic crisis deepens, a growing movement of Americans is rejecting the two-party system and the mainstream media. They believe a violent...
Recipe For Change | Building an Earthship in Ushuaia
Recipe For Change follows the story of Earthship Biotecture in Ushuaia, Argentina as they and a group of academy students build a two-room simple survival Earthship. Earthships are fully off the grid buildings which catch t
The Sustainability of Self
What defines true sustainability? How can we begin to create sustainability in a world that has such vastly differing views on the subject? If we perceive our external world as "unsustainable" what does this suggest about our own internal landscape?
The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance
We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent...
Forbidden Fruit: An Excerpt from the Feature Documentary Fantastic Fungi
An excerpt from the feature documentary by Louie Schwartzberg following notable mycologist, Paul Stamets, as he discusses the important role mushrooms play in the survival and health of the earth and human species.
Compassion, the Antidote
Thich Nhat Hanh has published nearly 100 books and is one of the best-known teachers of Zen Buddhism in the world today.
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz, this film is an unusually...
Jews And Arabs Refuse To Be Enemies
As millions go online to share information about the Gaza conflict, a social media campaign calling for tolerance is building.
Crude: The Real Price of Oil
Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside...