"My modest claim is that advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and it's cumulative cultural and political effects, unless very quickly checked, will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it." Advertising & the Perfect Storm: Global Warming, Peak Oil & Consumer Debt presented by Sut Jhally is sponsored...
The file of Gregorian Bivolaru has been made up by the Romanian Prosecutors' Office following the order of the Romanian Communist Secret Services (Securitate). "It is a strange and unique case within the European Justice System" declares General Dan Voinea, the former chief of Military Prosecutors' Offices, who, following to the investigation started in order to shed light...
Surviving Progress presents the story of human advancement as awe-inspiring and double-edged. It reveals the grave risk of running the 21st century’s software — our know-how — on the ancient hardware of our primate brain which hasn’t been upgraded in 50,000 years. With rich imagery and immersive soundtrack, filmmakers Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks launch us on journey...
The Sacred Sound of Creation is the first film of our time to explore and connect the origins of creation and reality itself with the conscious evolution of the modern era. The knowledge that reality and consciousness are spawned from a primordial sound and immutable light are rediscovered within The Sacred Sound of Creation through esoteric wisdom found deep within a comparative search of...
Making the connection: How a Vegan Diet can benefit us and the world. Produced by Environment Films http://www.environmentfilms.org in association with The Vegan Society.
ClassWarFilms exists to unpack and demystify the dense and deceitful narrative sold to Americans in the form of the Exceptionalist Myth. Our manifesto, Let Your Life Be A Friction To Stop The Machine, exposes and elucidates the creation and perpetuation of that devastatingly damaging masterwork of cynical propaganda for the many Americans who know that so much is wrong in our country but...
This video was made in support of the appeal against eviction of the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp in February 2012. It is a short physical theatre piece commenting on the 99% versus 1% imbalance of wealth and power which gave rise to the Occupy movement . Concept and Choreography Natasha Langridge Camera Alice Russel Director and Editor Sanya Mihaylovic Music Queen Performed by The...
This is Neil Degrasse Tyson's response when asked to describe the most astounding fact about the universe. Background music is the cinematic orchestra - To build a home.
We don't see things as they are. We see them as we are." - Anais Nin
Vandana Shiva explains the concept of a deeper democracy called "Earth Democracy."
Anonymous, Occupy, Idle No More, Yo Soy 132, Zapatistas, the Quebec student movement, Greenpeace, the Arab Spring, strikes, general strikes Whispers of Revolution celebrates the struggles for a better world. It celebrates people organizing and fighting back. It celebrates the possibility, the hope for global revolution.
In The Mona Lisa Curse, art critic Robert Hughes subjected present-day commercialisation of art to a withering criticism. It's a damning indictment of the general tendency of art to degenerate into flashy triviality to the degree that it subordinates itself to money-making and capitalist market economics. It condemned the British artist Hirst for "functioning like a commercial...
How do we change the world? Change the story. "The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation." ~ Once the story our world is built on reflects the reality of interconnection, we will be on a true path towards sustainability. The speaker is Charles Eisenstein (author of 'The Ascent of Humanity' and 'Sacred Economics').
This video is a consolidated video containing all of the videos provided by Chis Duane at http://www.thegreatesttruthnevertold.com/ . Please check out his website for more information. This is one of the most important videos anyone can watch. Please take the time to watch it from end to end.
This week, Cenk Uygur sits down with Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist movement and creator of Zeitgeist: Moving Forward . The Zeitgeist movement's goal is to create global sustainability by changing established social systems. Can people save the world by changing socially? Is the market economy responsible for corruption, and is it serving its original purpose? Does the market...
A hungry young man gets served some serious food for thought when a sausage starts telling his dramatic life story. What he hears will change his life forever. If fast food could talk, you'd bloody well listen http://www.madsausage.com/ -- Help the message be spread on television stations and HULU by donating on their page. A few dollars can sponsor an ad to reach...
1992 Film by Ron Fricke and Mark Magisdson. Perhaps the definer of the small but wonderful genre of "Non-Verbal Film".
Arctic ice cover just reached its lowest point in recorded history. Pippa goes off script and drops some science. For more, check out http://www.deeprogueram.tumblr.com Or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deep-Rogue-Ram/270636419712713 Or Twitter: https://twitter.com/deeprogueram Filmed at Strut Studios in Vancouver: http://www.strutstudios.com/ Starring Pippa Mackie and Kai Nagata...
CONTINUUM is a feature length documentary telling the story of where we came from, who we are, and the possibilities of our future. We've just launched our Kickstarter campaign! Come and support us, get involved, share the project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/planetary/planetary-collective-presents-continuum Follow us on Twitter ( www.twitter.com/WeArePlanetary ) and Like us...
The realm we exist in is so unimaginably huge, yet so incredibly detailed. We couldn't even begin to comprehend the true complexity of this cosmic domain. This Video mash shows a section of the IMAX movie Cosmic Voyage. It puts big and small into perspective and takes you on a voyage through the universe! Fractals has always intrigued me to a great degree. Fractals at the...
Energy is at the heart of the human predicament in the twenty-first century, and we now face a transformational moment in our energy story. As we leave the age of seemingly cheap and plentiful fossil fuels and enter an era of extreme energ y, the ever-rising financial, social, and environmental costs of fossil fuels can no longer be ignored. How we embrace this moment may well dictate...
A pilgrimage into nowhere ... in a campervan I drive through Europe. There is no destination - only the wish to find answers on burning questions of our time like: What to do with the global finance crisis? What to do if human values are lacking? What do we really need? What's at the core of everything? Explore spirituality and community ...
Graham Hancock tells the story of his 24-year relationship with cannabis brought to an abrupt halt in 2011 after an encounter with ayahuasca, the sacred visionary brew of the Amazon. Along the way he explores the mystery of death, the problem of consciousness, and the implications for the human future of a society that wages total war on true cognitive liberty.
If you don't have a moral question in your governing process, then you don't have a process that's going to survive." -Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan.
The #1 demand of both the Occupy Movement & the Tea Party has been to end the bribing of our public officials to once and for all have a government of the people, for the people, and by the people. This is one thing we can all agree on.
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an...
FALL AND WINTER is the result of a 16,000-mile journey across the U.S. in search of answers to our unfolding global crises. Hurricanes, droughts, soil depletion and rapidly diminishing resources threaten civilization itself. How did we get here? And what do we do about it?
POOR US: Do we know what poverty is? If we want to make poverty history, we need to understand the history of poverty. A funny and sinister animated odyssey through time. You fall asleep and dream, traveling across centuries and continents. You find the answers to curious questions: did hunter-gatherers have poor relations? Who became poor faster than anyone else in history? And can...
WELCOME TO THE WORLD: Is it worse to be born poor than to die poor? A lyrical, exhilarating and sometimes unsettling look at childbirth around the globe. Every year 130 million babies are born. Their life chances are a lottery depending on where they are born. In Europe, six babies per 1000 will die before their first birthday. In Africa, it’s 82. In America, 1 in 3 will grow up...
An epic rumination on the nature of modern human existence -Maryland Film Festival At the core of humankind's ethos is an ongoing struggle to come to terms with the impermanence of self. Reconvergence offers an intriguing exploration of mortality, consciousness and identity in the modern age from the perspectives of four distinct characters: a naturalist, a neuroscientist, a poet and a...
Time is a film that begins with the creation of the earth and ends with its destruction.
Wall Street is a full fledged counterfeiting operation with brokerages in every community in the nation and around the world trafficking in counterfeit goods (securities and other instruments). While the counterfeiters in Wall Street and the private Federal Reserve profit handsomely from the continual sale of bogus receipts and other counterfeited instruments. Eventually, the various...
Everyday Rebellion is a documentary about the power of the peaceful protests and the new forms of civil disobedience in a time of global upheaval. Featuring Femen , The Yes Men, Srdja Popovic , Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, John Jackson, Monica Hunken , Amin Husain , Pamela Brown, and many more. Due for release at the end of 2013.
We are on a road that leads straight to the World War 3, but in order to see that and to fully understand what is at stake you have to look at the big picture and connect the dots.
Freedom is a film about a fictive person in the real world who is set on a quest for freedom. In 12 steps he searches for the feeling of total freedom. The path starts with the question "what is freedom?". It brings him to the point where he decides to go to Egypt on a 14-day tour guided by bestselling author Robert Bauval and co-hosted by bestselling author Graham Hancock. On that...
Featuring an all-star international cast of top environmental thinkers and doers on Mother Earth Rights and Permaculture (of the inner landscape). United Natures is a home-made, grassroots, independent feature documentary, a vision self-funded by the director and created with the support of kindred media artists around the globe. Release June 1st 2013.
Featuring many key figures from Europe and the U.S., this is the first documentary film to look with scientific thoroughness at the world of Cultural Creatives. It shows that a great mass of people think differently from the way propagated by the media and promoted by the establishment. By the end of the film it becomes evident that this huge mass, were it to become aware of its power, could...
The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. Crises are converging when governments, religion and mainstream economists have stalled. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society. Four Horsemen is free from mainstream...
This documentary invites viewers to follow environmentalist Mikael Rioux as he meets exceptional men and women behind innovative projects for the future of society.Earth Keepers profiles India’s Ashok Khosla, head of Development Alternatives, which is putting development back in the hands of local populations ; Canadian John Todd and his “living machines,” which mimic nature...
"Plan B" provides a glimpse into a new and emerging economy based upon renewable resources as well as strategies to avoid the growing threat of climate change. As prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about carbon emissions cast a shadow over the future of fossil fuels, wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing fossil fuels at a pace and on a scale previously...
Whether it is the environment, energy or the economy, we're in a Big Mess. Driven by the fear of his daughter ending up living on a raft with the last polar bear, filmmaker and activist, Jon Cooksey, decides to investigate what the hell is happening to our planet. Part 2 is a great interview with the film-maker. Peak Moment 187: Filmmaker Jon Cooksey is one funny guy, even while...
Narrated by Oscar-nominee James Cromwell, this powerful film takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration behind the closed doors of the nation's largest industrial farms, hatcheries, and slaughter plants -- revealing the often-unseen journey that animals make from Farm to Fridge. If this documentary moves you, please take a moment to consider if these animals lives are worth taking...
The central objective of this film is to reveal man's condition as a modern slave within the context of the totalitarian mercantile system and to show the forms of mystification which mask his servile condition. Its aim is to attack head on the dominant world organization. In the vast field of battle of the worldwide civil war, language is often employed as a weapon. The true nature of...
Their Future in Your Hands is a great new video resource that is ideal for stimulating discussion about animal rights in subjects such as citizenship, English, RE and sixth form general studies. The film demonstrates that animals have rich emotional lives - in many ways similar to our own. It explores the various ways in which animals are used in society and encourages students to question...
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that is recreating our world from the inside out. Weaving together insights and findings from biology, psychology, network science, systems science, business, culture and media, the film reveals the inner workings of the human experience in the...
A collage of dozens of social change documentary titles set to music. Most of these documentaries can be found in my Full Movies playlist or you can find a trailer for it in my Movie Trailers playlist plus many more. Inspiration came in many forms being the "Wall of Films" from Films For Action , a call to action song about doing exactly what I did "Make A YouTube Video" by Tatiana Moroz, my...
Environmental activist Vandana Shiva speaks about the crises of today and the two most important things we can and must do to solve them.
Self-described civilized man, belonging to the culture known as the Takers. What an extraordinary creature. He has walked on the moon and created the worldwide web that connects billions of people like us right here. But there is a darker side of Taker culture, a history that tends to remain unseen. A side that gets brushed over. YOU may actually be a part of it. Do you want to be? Time to...
Drawing from ancient knowledge and cutting edge science, Symphony of the Soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. By understanding the elaborate relationships and mutuality between soil, water, the atmosphere, plants and animals, we come to appreciate the complex and dynamic nature of this precious resource. The film also examines our human relationship with soil, the...
Occupied Cascadia is a documentary film both journalistic and expressionistic. Exploring the emerging understanding of bioregionalism within the lands and waters of the Northeast Pacific Rim, the filmmakers interweave intimate landscape portraits with human voices both ideological and indigenous. Stories from the land contrast critique of dominant culture, while an embrace of the radical...