Defend the Sacred (2017)

Name: Defend the Sacred (2017)
Uploaded: 2018-01-29T01:00:30
Duration: 17 min

Capturing the heart of a movement that is constantly evolving is difficult. How do you capture Spirit? "Defend The Sacred" is a short documentary that attempts to capture the spirit of Indigenous people at Standing Rock. * WINNER OF THE 2017 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AUDIENCE... read more

Rate this video

Added by Films For Action

Sustainability

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

The Restorative Revolution and a River of Reciprocity | Sammy Gensaw III

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

A Breathtaking Adventure With Trash (ABAWT) (2023)

Why We Need Socialism

Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood

Until the Last Drop (trailer)

The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)

The Burden (2015) (trailer)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

Inspiring Couple Build the Sustainable Home of Their Dreams (From Start to Finish)

This Couple Live an Ultra Low Waste Life and You Can Too! – The Rubbish Trip (2023)

Can Trees Stop Climate Change?

The Edge of Nature by Josh Fox (trailer)

Zeitgeist | Requiem by Peter Joseph (trailer)

The Living Planet View: To Save the Earth, We Need to Reframe the Goal

Our Food is Killing Us

Awakening of the Soil (Toprağın Uyanışı) (2021)

The New Sustainable Fishing Model That Could Disrupt the Global Seafood Industry (2023)

Reimagining Humanity: The Sequel to Breaking the Cycle

The Bentley Effect (2017)

Metamorphosis (2018)

Seeding Change: The Power of Conscious Commerce (2021)

What is Regeneration? - A Short Film from the "2040" Team

We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (2021)

How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World

The Most Sustainable City In America

My Name Is Blue (2023)

A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City

Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden

Why outlawing cannabis was a HUGE mistake

How Trees Talk | Suzanne Simard

Libelinha Venture, Rewild The Future (2022)

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

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

Living in the Time of Dying (2020)

Films for a Wiser Earth

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

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

Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

GIFT (2018)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)

We Are Many (2020)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)

Noam Chomsky

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Why Propaganda Works & The Great Question of Our Time | Noam Chomsky

The Business Class Wants You to Hate the Government Because It Has a Defect | Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision

Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

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

Noam Chomsky: How the Business Class Shapes Our Opinions about Democracy and Government

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

The Most Important Article You’ll Never Read? How Western Media Support State Terror, While Millions Die, and How This Article Was Killed

Matthew Alford, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn, Alan MacLeod, Florian Zollmann

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Daniel Quinn

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel

Rabbi Michael Lerner

If Israel Reacts to Its 9/11 Like the Americans Responded to Theirs, Innocent Civilians Will Pay the Heaviest Price

Paul Rogers

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Yasha Levine

The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Reading Library

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Tribute to Aaron Bushnell by Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner

AI Prompt: Turn Lawrence, Kansas Into a Bioregional Ecocity With Indigenous Values and Wisdom

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril — and in Need of Solidarity

Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles

From Citizens of Nations to Citizens of Cities

The Needs of the Management Class Shaped Racial Pseudoscience

Friends Don't Let Friends Destroy Themselves

Building a Beloved Community in a Time of War

To Defend Israel as 'Moral Society,' Knesset Member Backs South Africa's ICJ Genocide Case

14 Free Videos To Counter US Media's Dehumanization Of Palestinians

The Death of Israel

Let Israel Vote; Let Gaza Vote

This Is a War on Children, and 'Safe Zones' Are Death Traps: UNICEF

Phase One of Israel’s Genocidal Campaign on Gaza has Ended. Phase Two has Begun.

The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza

War Is Always Justified

Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

To Save US Democracy, Tax the Rich at 90%

When Will We Learn That Violence Doesn't Lead to Security?

Patriarchy and the Patriarchal Woman

Subscribe for $5/mo to Watch over 50 Patron-Exclusive Films

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

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

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)

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

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

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

We Are Many (2020)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)

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

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

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

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

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

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

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

GIFT (2018)

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Affluenza (1997)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)

Become a Patron. Support Films For Action.

For $5 a month, you'll gain access to over 50 patron-exclusive documentaries while keeping us ad-free and financially independent. We need 350 more Patrons to grow our team in 2024.

Subscribe here

Our 6000+ video library is 99% free, ad-free, and entirely community-funded thanks to our patrons!

Date Added
Views
Length	min
Topics