Why Breakdowns Are Sometimes Necessary | Duncan Trussell

Duncan Trussell describes how a mental breakdown just might be a break through.

4 min

Mark Charles explains the fundamental design of the founding documents of the United States of America that allows white, landowning men to flourish and maintain power. He examines how the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence did not recognize all the...

6 min

The Force That Drives Our Civilization | Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein explains how the time has come for us to re-examine the stories that we believe about ourselves in relationship with all life. When we are able to do this well, we will understand how to make better decisions that do not cause damage and destruction to the...

8 min

America's Gun Fetish | Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges explains how guns became such an important part of the American culture.

8 min

What We Can Learn From Nature | Janine Benyus

Janine Benyus reveals the natural intelligence found in the patterns and designs of nature all around us. We live in a competent, brilliant planet and are surrounded by genius with perfect timing and coordination, all without top down laws and policies. The organisms have all...

3 min

What Do Animals Think And Feel? | Carl Safina

Scientist Carl Safina explains the unique ways that animals use their natural intelligence to work together for survival. He explains that love is not unique to humans. We see many ways that animals feel connection with one another and will put themselves at risk to help...

6 min

How the Soil Healed Wounded Soldiers | George Monbiot

Learn how this mysterious "Angel's Glow" helped to heal the wounded soldiers, as described by George Monbiot in his new book Regenesis.

8 min

Judge Not: a Short Film about Judgement, Compassion, and Learning to Love the Cringe

Over the last couple years, I’ve tried to bring an increased awareness to the relationship between judgement, compassion, and suffering--both within myself and the larger collective culture. I see the seductive trap of judgment as a source of so much suffering, especially in...

5 min

To Be At Home In The World | Charles Eisenstein

A meditative, absorbing, intricately-edited short film about the crisis of belonging, the high price of progress, and the return journey home, as told by author/philosopher Charles Eisenstein.

15 min

Why Doctors Ignore Trauma | Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Dr. Nadine Harris has been studying the effects of early childhood adversity on health outcomes later on in life. In her 30 years of studying research, the findings are clear. Childhood trauma dramatically affects health across a lifetime. These are not some new findings...

6 min

How To Have A Relationship With A Wild Animal | Steve Karlin

How does a human being develop a relationship with a wild animal? Steve Karlin, of Wildlife Associates, is a wild animal rehabilitation expert that explains how animals can sense how we think and feel, and what they need in order to trust a relationship with a human.

7 min

How Trees Talk | Suzanne Simard

Scientist Suzanne Simard explains the complex intelligence of how trees communicate with one another and are super cooperators rather than competitors. This beautiful story takes you into the forest to see how trees share resources and protect each other from invaders and...

5 min

How To Handle Our Inner Cynicism | Mr Rogers

I didn't know much about Mister Rogers nor his classic show "Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood" until I saw the Tom Hanks film, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood. Here's my thoughts on what it can teach us about the inner cynicism that we all fall prey to from time to time.

13 min

The Socialist Guide to Surviving in Capitalism

This might be controversial.

21 min

Frog and Toad: The Philosophy of Simple Living

In this video, I chat about the 1970s children’s book series Frog and Toad—written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel—including its helpful/wholesome themes and why it’s so cozy and memorable. - Quality Culture

29 min

The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains

A videoessay breaking down the masculinity in the apple tv show Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudekis as a football coach. This analysis considers the healthy masculinity of characters such as Roy Kent, the developing masculinity of Jamie Tartt, as well as touching on the toxic...

21 min

An Initiation to Game B

Follow the journey of a Game~B pioneer who—with the help of the three stewards—awakens to the realization that she must find her tribe and prevent humanity's current path toward self-termination by playing a new game.

19 min

Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism

There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually...

19 min

Libelinha Venture, Rewild The Future (2022)

When Xavier and Arantxa bought their land in Central Portugal they just wanted to have a little piece of selfsufficient heaven.. But two months after the purchase a huge wildfire raged over the area, turning everything black. Instead of giving up of and losing hope, drastic...

11 min

Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman

James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

9 min

Jon Stewart On The Problem with Antisemitic Rhetoric and How Our Culture Talks about It

Jon Stewart gives his thoughtful take on the controversies surrounding Chappelle, Irving and West, and the impact of antisemitic rhetoric.

13 min

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first-ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression. His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers...

80 min

Cocaine Unwrapped (2011)

COCAINE UNWRAPPED tells the story of cocaine: coca farmers in Colombia, drugs mules in Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories in the Bolivian jungle, dealers on the streets of Mexico, law enforcement officials on the streets of Baltimore - and the everyday consumers around the...

84 min

A Little Movie About The Future (with My 5 Year Old Luna)

What if we imagine a more hopeful future?

5 min

We need a #HomesGuarantee

A national Homes Guarantee is a plan that will ensure every person in the U.S. (or any country) has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. It comes straight from people impacted by the nation's housing crisis and builds from a long tradition of...

3 min

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)

This critically acclaimed look at American war propaganda exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to show how presidents from both parties have relied on fear-driven political spin and craven media complicity to sell a succession of wars to the American people...

72 min

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children's most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same...

35 min

Climate Collateral: How Military Spending Accelerates Climate Breakdown

Military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources...

3 min

Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr

The experience of god inside oneself is often called Franciscan Mysticism. It's about becoming what you already are, and the profound wisdom St. Francis imparted for living in harmony with both ourselves as well as others around us can be seen throughout this lecture by...

62 min

Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (2019)

Do you ever feel like we're swimming in an ocean of bullshit? This ground-breaking and viral 50-part series from John Vervaeke seeks to understand why this is so, and answer the question: what can we do about it?

3000 min

Occupation Inc. (2020)

A documentary about Spanish involvement in the Moroccan occupation and exploitation of Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, with Sahrawi human rights defenders Elghalia Djimi and Sultana Khaya.

42 min

The Laws of Capitalism (2022)

The laws of capitalism have elevated the interests of the few above that of the many, but we can rewrite the code and restore balance to society. In this series, Professor Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) breaks down the history, process, institutions, and participants...

60 min

CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories In Major Newspapers (1983)

"The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983." - Edward Snowden "Please watch this detailed explanation from former CIA analyst Frank Snepp about how the newspapers and magazines you were taught to regard as mainstream and reliable have always eagerly served...

17 min

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...

47 min

The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)

Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak...

39 min

Restoring the World

Peoples of the world, this is your time and reality. If you are to prevent war and the breakdown of human civilization, you must build and restore the world—the ground beneath your feet, the clarity of your waters, the clarity of your air, the richness of your soil. You will...

35 min

The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the...

85 min

The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)

While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...

47 min

The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)

Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.

46 min

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)

If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large...

60 min

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...

25 min

Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)

Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

80 min

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved...

76 min

Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)

In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...

52 min

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they...

50 min

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less income inequality than other societies. In this new film based on his international...

40 min

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food to bogus educational products and the family car.

66 min

Jeremy Corbyn Destroys The Establishment

Corbyn sets the record straight.

8 min

Living in the Time of Dying (2020)

Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house...

54 min

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

How corporate news inherently supports the status quo and prevents dissident perspectives through 'concision'.

6 min

Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire

Adam Conover breaks down why billionaire "charity" is terrible for the planet, and why we should stop swallowing their myths.

21 min

TraumaZone (2022)

An epic documentary by British director Adam Curtis illustrating in seven parts state and decline of the Soviet Union and the development in Russia 1985–1999 using material from the BBC archives.

350 min

Southern Discomfort (2017)

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

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)

The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used...

32 min

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of millions of students. Meanwhile dwindling federal, state, and local funding for education...

45 min

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...

57 min

Blood and Oil (2008)

Blood and Oil, featuring Michael Klare, a senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington D.C. and the defense correspondent for The Nation, offers a riveting look at how U.S. efforts to control the global flow of fossil fuels has led to endless war...

52 min

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the producer and writer of the award-winning Dreamworlds series.

47 min

To Coddiwomple: to Travel in a Purposeful Manner Towards a Vague Destination (2021)

A journey away from the rat race..

63 min

Growing Pains: the Ecological Cost of an Insatiable Economy (2019)

'Growing Pains' is the title for a short edit (47min) of the award-winning documentary 'System Error'. A look at the global and political obsession with economic growth and the ecological and humanitarian consequences.

47 min

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