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Amanda Abbington Introduces iAnimal - 42 Days in the Life of Chickens
Amanda Abbington Introduces iAnimal - 42 Days in the Life of Chickens
Shot undercover in British factory farms and slaughterhouses, this immersive 360° video gives you a birds-eye view of what happens to chicken from farm to plate.
4 min
Andy Goes In - Working Undercover in a Factory Farm
Andy Goes In - Working Undercover in a Factory Farm
He's a $10/hr farmhand, and his name isn't Andy.
10 min
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms
Incredible Stories From 5 Inspirational Farms
In this series of 5 short films we visit five farms where incredible things sprout. From growing massive, 100-pound vegetables to giving injured animals another chance, these are the finest farms around. 
12 min
From Gangs to Gardens
From Gangs to Gardens (2014)
Organic gardener and vegan chef DJ CAVEM is an award-winning international recording artist and activist who uses Hip-Hop culture to inspire young people to connect to the earth by teaching them how to grow food, and cultivate healthy eating habits. Through his lyrics and...
13 min
Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness
Thriving 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness
In the small town of Riverton at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island is Robert and Robyn Guyton's amazing 23-year-old food forest. The two-acre property has been transformed from a neglected piece of land into a thriving ecosystem.
19 min
You Only Pay for Time at This Cafe
You Only Pay for Time at This Cafe
In this cafe, the food and drink is free. You just pay 7 cents per minute to be there.
2 min
Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!
Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!
Ripping out your lawn and planting kale and peppers won’t just lead to great stir-fry — a new study finds it could make major contributions to fighting climate change, too.
Nathanael Johnson
Seeding Fear - The Farmer Who Went Toe-to-Toe with Monsanto
Seeding Fear - The Farmer Who Went Toe-to-Toe with Monsanto
Seeding Fear is a short documentary Executive Produced by Neil Young that tells the story of Michael White, a fourth generation farmer, who went toe to toe with Monsanto.
10 min
I Stopped Eating Animals Because of Human Rights
I Stopped Eating Animals Because of Human Rights
What does the meat industry do to people’s mental health?
Andy West
We All Love Animals, But..
We All Love Animals, But..
We All Love Animals is a short little video about our love towards animals being contradicted by our daily actions. 
3 min
Wasted/ Wanted
Wasted/ Wanted
Every year, supermarkets in the UK throw away an estimated 40million tonnes of perfectly edible food, often for perplexing reasons. FareShare is a charity that diverts some of this waste, redistributing it to organisations that work with vulnerable people.
27 min
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live
How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to empower the transformation of a now-gentrifying neighborhood gripped in poverty in his...
15 min
From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods
From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods
Economic globalization is destroying livelihoods and replacing them with assembly-line drudgery. But there is a path forward.
Ashish Kothari
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
Five Vital Lessons From Psychedelic Experts
The problem with banning anything out of a fear of the unknown is that many unknowns will remain. Such is the story of many psychedelic drugs in the U.S. While the government has experimented with various psychedelic compounds (take  the CIA’s secret attempts at LSD...
April M. Short
Our Bodies Don't Need Meat. So Why Can't We Give It Up?
Our Bodies Don't Need Meat. So Why Can't We Give It Up?
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that all grain must go to people rather than animals. Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband. What would happen then?
Nathanael Johnson
The Worm Is Turning
The Worm Is Turning (2015)
THE WORM IS TURNING tells the story of how corporate agribusiness is taking over the world's food production in the name of 'efficiency' and 'feeding a starving world' - while actually destroying economies, people's health, and the ecology of the world.
103 min
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated film takes us into the world of animal agriculture to expose how the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
4 min
From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!
From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!
Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry, but after leaving that life, he and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand and developed an amazing permaculture property in just 3 years!
15 min
Maybe the Humans in Interstellar Wouldn't Have Wrecked Their Planet If They Had Stopped Monocropping
Maybe the Humans in Interstellar Wouldn't Have Wrecked Their Planet If They Had Stopped Monocropping
Did the brainiac space man played by Matthew Mcconaughey ever stop to consider the possibility that continuing to rely on massive homogeneous corn fields was driving the death of the planet? No, no he did not. This parody video isn't directly related to the m
Tim Hjersted
Going Veggie Would Cut Global Food Emissions by Two Thirds and Save Millions of Lives - New Study
Going Veggie Would Cut Global Food Emissions by Two Thirds and Save Millions of Lives - New Study
Eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting back on red and processed meat will make you healthier. That’s obvious enough. But as chickens and cows themselves eat food and burn off their own energy, meat is a also major driver of climate change. Going veggie can...
Marco Springmann
This Is The Video Future Generations Will Be Wishing Everyone Watched Today
This Is The Video Future Generations Will Be Wishing Everyone Watched Today
The living earth is slowly being consumed by the human animals living on its surface. There are many drivers of the destruction being wrought, and many solutions we can pursue. One of the clearest drivers of deforestation, habitat loss and extinction is our insatable and...
4 min
The Organic Revolution
The Organic Revolution
Sex, drugs and rock&roll, now thàt used to be cool. Someone who wants to be cool today, grows his own organic vegetables. Hip and trendy, or is there more to it?
5 min
White Canada Has a Black History
White Canada Has a Black History
Goood morning slaves! This week we bring you, "White Canada has a Black History" In this sedition of ITEOTWAWKIAIFF we look at the growing class unrest in Hong Kong that kicked off a massive rebellion in the lunar new year. Also street battles in Athens, where anarchists and...
20 min
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
After hundreds of years of isolation, here’s how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity — and their health.
9 min
Sanders Puts Block on Obama's Big Pharma Nominee for FDA
Sanders Puts Block on Obama's Big Pharma Nominee for FDA
'We need someone who will work to substantially lower drug prices, implement rules to safely import brand-name drugs from Canada and hold companies accountable who defraud our government.'
Nadia Prupis
Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA
Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA
Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some alternative to fast food in a community where "the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."
10 min
Artist Buried Alive to Highlight Food Insecurity and Farmer Suicides in India
Artist Buried Alive to Highlight Food Insecurity and Farmer Suicides in India
On the 6th December 2015, Artist Shweta Batthad buried herself alive outside the #COP21 climate talks in Paris to raise awareness of the 300,000 Indian farmers who have committed suicide since 1990 due to food insecurity. She remained underground for 3 hours, writing the word...
3 min
PBS FRONTLINE's "Modern Meat" and "The Trouble With Chicken" (A Films for Action Double Feature)
PBS FRONTLINE's "Modern Meat" and "The Trouble With Chicken" (A Films For Action Double Feature)
How safe is it to eat meat in America? Two PBS Frontline Documentaries ask the hard questions about E. Coli, Salmonella, and other bacteria that are sending American families to the hospital, and in some cases to the grave. The latest Center for Disease Control estimates...
Matthew Toplikar
PBS FRONTLINE: Modern Meat
PBS FRONTLINE: Modern Meat (2002)
In Modern Meat, FRONTLINE takes a close look inside the world of the modern American meat industry and shows how this once simple product has turned into a much more dangerous phenomenon, given the fact that an average American eats at least three hamburgers a week; and with...
54 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Trouble With Chicken
PBS FRONTLINE: The Trouble With Chicken (2015)
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in meat - particularly poultry - and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the documentary reveals how...
55 min
Racing Extinction
Racing Extinction (2015) (trailer)
In Racing Extinction, a team of artists and activists exposes the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Two worlds drive extinction across the globe, potentially resulting in the loss of half of all species. The...
3 min
World's Small Farmers Fighting Back as WTO Pushes Corporate Agenda
World's Small Farmers Fighting Back as WTO Pushes Corporate Agenda
The WTO is aiming to strengthen a 'corporate-driven free trade regime' while ignoring solutions that would protect small-scale farmers and increase food security, says La Via Campesina
Nadia Prupis
Seeds of Justice - In The Hands of Farmers
Seeds of Justice - In The Hands of Farmers (2015)
Seeds of Justice follows Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede’s inspirational work to re-valorise farmers’ knowledge and protect their position as guardians of seed diversity. Treading in Melaku’s footsteps from his youth to the present day through his pivotal...
36 min
Why Are We Wasting so Much Food?
Why Are We Wasting so Much Food?
Award-winning author Tristram Stuart argues that food waste is a global scandal. 
5 min
A Commons Sense
A Commons Sense
The US patent act clause 102 says that nothing can be patented if it is prior public knowledge. If the public has been aware of the material and its benefits, then it is not possible to patent. Clause 102 then goes on to define ‘public knowledge’ as only that of Americans’...
8 min
High-Speed Slaughter Hell at Hormel, Makers of SPAM
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...
3 min
The Man Who Stopped the Desert
The Man Who Stopped the Desert (2010)
As early as the 1970's the word ' Sahel ', a word that describes that bleak land between the Sahara desert and the wet forest of tropical Africa , had become synonymous with famine and poverty.
65 min
The Future of Protein Will Not Be Animal Meat
The Future of Protein Will Not Be Animal Meat
The average American eats 80.6 pounds of beef very year. Since farming cattle is water and land-intensive—and responsible for between 18 and 51 percent of greenhouse gas emissions—companies like Beyond Meat are racing to diversify protein sources that will feed the world's...
8 min
This Tiny Country Is Going 100 Percent Organic
This Tiny Country Is Going 100 Percent Organic
In 2011, the tiny mountain nation of Bhutan announced a lofty goal: make the country’s agricultural system 100 percent organic by the year 2020. If it succeeded, it would be the first country in the world to achieve the feat. Bhutan — nestled in the Himalayas between India...
Natasha Geiling
Island Grown
Island Grown (2015)
Theres an island named Maui in the South Pacific that boast world class views, recreation, and climate. The climate on the island is perfect for agriculture and grows some of the best coffee in the world. Industrial farming on the island has recently put these ecosystems at...
12 min
Baranaja - Twelve Seeds of Sustainability
Baranaja - Twelve Seeds of Sustainability
300 million farmers is a whole lot of famers. India is their home, making it the country with the largest number of small-scale food growers in the world. Most of these farmers own less than 2 acres of land and are highly vulnerable to climate change and rising input costs...
6 min
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min
Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm
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...
13 min
Cowspiracy - The Documentary Turning Environmentalists Vegan
Cowspiracy - The Documentary Turning Environmentalists Vegan
Streaming giant Netflix recently launched Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a 90-minute documentary financed via the crowd-funding site Indiegogo and executive-produced by Hollywood star Leonardo di Caprio. It is the latest in a short line of factual features...
Alison Homewood
No Snowflake
No Snowflake (2015)
The drastic consequences of climate change are becoming increasingly prevalent in our lives. The face of the world is changing, because of us.
28 min
Egg Producers Caught Conspiring to Shut Down a Vegan Mayo Startup
Egg Producers Caught Conspiring to Shut Down a Vegan Mayo Startup
Katie Herzog
Meat: Redesigning Supply and Demand
Meat: Redesigning Supply and Demand
The steak is a vivid reminder that all manufactured consumables have consequential origins, whether those origins are living, breathing animals, or cells in vitro. 
3 min
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series
Living With The Land: A 9-Part Permaculture Series
A rich and imersive nine part series looking at all aspects of living with the land. Produced by Permaculture magazine and Permaculture People the films explore successful permaculture projects across a range of topics, such as large-scale, regenerative agriculture, forest...
50 min
Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness
Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness (trailer)
A deeply moving journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food and life upside down in an amazingly simple and poetic way.
2 min
From Under Our Feet- Spanish sub-titled
From Under Our Feet- Spanish sub-titled
This documentary identifies and explains this impending Ecocide. Jaki and Jose and the 15 people still living in Los Perales are facing displacement and loss of their livelihoods. The reason - industrial agriculture. Oldest inhabitant 93 years old - youngest 4 years old...
15 min
ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us
ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us (2015)
ʻĀINA (pronounced "eye-nah") means "That Which Feeds Us" in the Hawaiian language. The film highlights a way to address some of the most pressing environmental and health crises facing the island of Kauai - and of island Earth. That may sound like an outstanding claim, but...
22 min
Cost Of Living In America Today Vs. 1980
Cost Of Living In America Today Vs. 1980
Most living expenses have gone up in price since 1980 (even when you adjust for inflation). That includes cars, homes, education - almost everything, except for our paychecks. Here's why paying for a house, a car and a college degree was possible in 1980 - but not so much today.
2 min
Where is California's Water Really Going? (And Where is it not?)
Where is California's Water Really Going? (And Where is it not?)
Comedian Eddie Pepitone gives some revealing statistics about how California's water is distributed during the most recent water shortage. (2015)
3 min
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
Are Hospital Farms the Next Big Thing in Healthcare Reform?
This summer, St. Luke’s Hospital started sending all new moms home from the hospital with a basket of fresh produce, recipes and literature about the importance of a healthy diet. All of the produce in the basket was grown on an organic farm on the hospital’s Anderson...
Jodi Helmer
What Our Food Is Really Doing to the Planet, in 15 Jaw-Dropping Images
What Our Food Is Really Doing to the Planet, in 15 Jaw-Dropping Images
When current science news is filled with pictures — incredible, beautiful, literally awesome pictures — of planetary bodies 3 billion miles away, it's easy to forget what's happening on the soil beneath our own feet. 
Max Plenke
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Food Waste
Producers, sellers, and consumers waste tons of food. John Oliver discusses the shocking amount of food we don't eat. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
18 min
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash
The Yes Men's Solution to California's Drought: If You Eat Beef, Don't Wash
Would you stop showering if it meant that was the only way you could keep eating beef? California's ongoing drought needs radical action. But in a state dependent on water-hungry meat production, it would be politically dangerous to suggest eating less beef. Activists the Yes...
11 min
Can Meat Actually Be eco-friendly?
Can Meat Actually Be eco-friendly?
Should we eat meat? That’s the big question, which — for this series — I’m asking three different ways: in terms of environmental sustainability, morality, and practicality.
Nathanael Johnson
Overfishing- The Consequences
Overfishing- The Consequences
How does overfishing affect you and the planet you live in?  This short film quickly explains the food chain of the sea and how overfishing affects more than just our ability to eat certain kinds of fish.
3 min