Matthew Toplikar

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ADDED Aug 13, 2025

31 min

Joe Rogan Misrepresents Climate Science Article Again & Again

Do you watch or listen to The Joe Rogan Experience? Do you think that scientists believe the average world climate temperature is cooling? There is likely a connection.In January of...

ADDED Apr 21, 2025

28 min

In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)

When you search for details about the Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, you will be greeted with copious slander and lies about his life. He is often defamed as a...

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Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die

"This video essay is about a gendered trope that has bothered me for years but didn’t have a name, so I gave it one: Born Sexy Yesterday. It's a science fiction convention in which the...

ADDED Aug 14, 2023

6 min

Noam Chomsky - Values, Abortion, and Preserving Life

In an edited interview from the Tony Kaye documentary "Lake of Fire", Chomsky is asked about decisions regarding the morality of abortion, and how individuals and society must take a...

ADDED Aug 24, 2021

34 min

Johnny Harris: A Story of YouTube Propaganda

A story about Johnny Harris, propaganda and misinformation on YouTube. We also very briefly touch upon the notions of "shareholder capitalism" and "stakeholder capitalism" which Harris...

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Can't Get You Out of My Head

Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part BBC documentary television series created by Adam Curtis. It attempts to explain how modern society...

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Just the Way You Are

"Growing up I had vague memories of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but watching his program now as an adult and as a filmmaker I was fascinated by the degree of sophistication and...

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Voters Guide: Use Your Vote to Choose Your Opponent

This guide explains why "year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the world we want. Voting alone won't do it, but "year-round activism + not voting" needlessly...

ADDED Jun 13, 2020

3 min

The Blood is at the Doorstep (trailer)

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a quest for answers, justice, and...

ADDED Jun 13, 2020

Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group

SUQUAMISH TRIBE DESCENDANT JEANETTA RILEY, A 34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF FOUR, LAY FACEDOWN ON A SANDPOINT, IDAHO, STREET. One minute earlier, three police officers had arrived, summoned by...

ADDED Jun 13, 2020

7 min

How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American...

ADDED Jun 12, 2020

113 min

Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2)

This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com

ADDED Jun 12, 2020

113 min

Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 Parts

This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (trailer)

On August 9th, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson stopped Michael Brown in the street. 95 seconds later Officer Wilson killed this 18-year-old recent high school graduate in cold blood. After...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

3 min

Peace Officer: The Militarized State of American Police (trailer)

Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

2 min

Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police (trailer)

COPWATCH follows WeCopwatch, an organization dedicated to filming the police. Among its members are the individuals who captured the original videos of the deaths of Eric Garner in...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

3 min

Whose Streets? An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising (trailer)

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

3 min

The Talk: Race in America (trailer)

The Talk – Race in America is a two-hour documentary about the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

3 min

Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (trailer)

Amidst the uprising in Ferguson, 7 St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest.

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

2 min

Dispatches From Cleveland (trailer)

Dispatches from Cleveland is a feature-length documentary in five parts that closely examines the early 21st century, rust-belt city of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most racially divided...

ADDED Jun 11, 2020

3 min

Out of Omaha (trailer)

OUT OF OMAHA is an award-winning, intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, young black men coming of age in the divided city of Omaha, Nebraska. Directed by Clay...

ADDED Jun 9, 2020

Activists Catalog Nearly 600 Videos of Police Violence Against Protesters

"This kind of documentation serves as a counter-narrative to repeated denials of responsibility from the police, who are routinely claiming protesters were the ones to grow violent first."

ADDED Jun 8, 2020

25 min

James Baldwin's "Black Lives Matter" Speech

James Baldwin makes a heartfelt plea for racial justice and equality at Cambridge University.

ADDED Jun 8, 2020

9 min

How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It

Almost every quantifiable indicator of white supremacy— all lead back to the government-sanctioned policy of redlining. Here's how the racist legacy of redlining still works today.

ADDED Jun 8, 2020

5 min

Bayard Rustin: An unsung hero of the civil rights movement

Learn about the life of Bayard Rustin, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, a gay rights activist, and one of Martin Luther King’s closest advisors. -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr...

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Chris Rock Recites James Baldwin's Letter to his Nephew

Dear James:

ADDED Jun 6, 2020

6 min

The Atlantic Slave Trade: What too Few Textbooks Told You

Slavery has occurred in many forms throughout the world, but the Atlantic slave trade -- which forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas -- stands out for both its...

ADDED Jun 6, 2020

5 min

Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer

James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in “Notes of a Native Son” explored race, sex and class distinctions. -- In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000...

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Fantastic Fungi

When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.

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Planet of the Humans

A Note from Films For Action (Last Updated 5/26/2020): While we believe the film is worthy of a good critique, we don't support the campaign to have the film removed from...

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Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans

Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.

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Overpopulation: Do We Really Need to Control Population Growth?

"Every once in a while someone comes to me and says, "Charles you've ignored the elephant in the room. It's population growth. And unless we control our population, then nothing else is...

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Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective

Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What...

ADDED Mar 8, 2019

13 min

Jennifer Lawrence talks with Trevor Potter at Unrig 2018

Last year at Unrig Summit, Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Trevor Potter, a Republican and the forrmer commissioner of the U.S. Federal Election Commission to learn how to legally bribe...

ADDED Mar 6, 2019

13 min

Unbreaking America: A NEW Short Film about Solving the Corruption Crisis

Find out how you can get involved at http://represent.us Our government is broken, and we have to fix it. RepresentUs board member Jennifer Lawrence and Director of RepresentUs Josh...

ADDED Aug 14, 2018

3 min

BLACKkKLANSMAN (trailer)

A Spike Lee joint. From producer Jordan Peele. Based on some fo’ real, fo’ real sh*t. Watch the #BlacKkKlansman trailer now - in theaters August 10...

ADDED Jan 27, 2017

1 min

We the People, Resist (Howard Zinn)

We won't let anyone destroy what generations of Americans have built. History has shown that people like YOU are the driving force behind change. Now is the time to fight for what you...

ADDED Feb 16, 2016

9 min

Noam Chomsky on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Rise of Islamophobia

Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi Hasan to...

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Food Matters (2008) (trailer)

"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." –Hippocrates With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to...

ADDED Jan 21, 2016

11 of the Most Sacred and Iconic Trees From Around the World

Originally published at Garden Buildings Direct.

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