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Why People's Opinions of You Aren't Real

4 min

Breathe Easy (With Bassem Youssef)

3 min

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

1 min

Black Friday Is Buy Nothing Day

1 min

The Bio Da Versity Code

5 min

When Kids Recite The Pledge of Allegiance in School This Is Basically What They're Saying

2 min

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

1 min

Channel 4 News Ecomonics Editor Is Pissed Off With The Banks

The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism

5 min

Don't Worry Everyone, The Republican National Committee Just Magically Turned Coal Into "Clean" Energy

1 min

Gil Scott-Heron Explains the Meaning Behind 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'

1 min

How You Change People

4 min

The 'Alpha Dog' Myth Is Leading Countless People to Mistreat Their Dogs

2 min

How "Protect and Serve" Became "Search and Destroy"

3 min

Alone Through Iran - One Woman's Incredible 1144 Mile Journey, on Foot

5 min

Honest Government Ad | We Make Everything Good Sh!t

5 min

Ewan McGregor Finds an Eclair on a Beach, What Happens Next...

4 min

The Love Mob: You Want To See The Leader Of The Future? Go Look In The Mirror.

5 min

45 Seconds of Wisdom From José Mujica

1 min

We Could All Work 15-Hour Weeks, and Get Away With It

3 min

Bush Coins

3 min

Our Obsession With the Economy Is Destroying Democracy

2 min

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

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Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

How to Change Your Mind (2022) (trailer)

The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021) (trailer)

My Octopus Teacher (2020) (trailer)

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

The Great Hack (2019) (trailer)

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) (trailer)

#MeToo & Liberation For All

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

Inspiring Short Films

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

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

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

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Black Lives Matter

13TH (2016)

Down in the Hole - The Streets of Baltimore (2015)

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

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

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

Tears in the Bayou - The Streets of Houston (2017)

I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Generation Revolution (2017)

Baltimore Rising (2017)

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland (2018) (trailer)

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

What Would the Black Panthers Think of Black Lives Matter?

4 Black Lives Matter Myths Debunked

Law Professor's Epic Response to Black Lives Matter Shirt Complaint

What's the Matter with 'All Lives Matter'

The Power of White Fear feat. Chris Hayes

Whose Streets? An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising (2017) (trailer)

Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (2018) (trailer)

Accidental Courtesy Follow-Up: Daryl Davis and Kwame Rose Agree that Black Lives Matter

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The Blood is at the Doorstep (2017) (trailer)

Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (2016) (trailer)

Ferguson Isn't about Black Rage Against Cops. It's White Rage Against Progress.

The Real Reason White People Say 'All Lives Matter'

It Took Me Years to Believe That Black Lives Matter. Now Here's What I Need From You

White People in Solidarity With Black Lives Matter

Why I Refuse to Avoid White People

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016)

We Can't Grow Infinitely on a Finite Planet

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Impossible Hamster

How to Fix the World

Life in a 'Degrowth' Economy, and Why You Might Actually Enjoy it

Enough Is Enough (2014)

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

There's No Tomorrow (2012)

Visualizing a Plenitude Economy: The Secret To Creating Jobs

Growth is Not Enough

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Who Killed Economic Growth?

Steady-State Economics: It's The Answer To The Failed Endless-Growth Paradigm

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

We Have a Choice to Make. Growth or Life?

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

How an Ad Man Became a Post-Growth Advocate

Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance

Our Addiction to Economic Growth Is Killing Us - We Need Degrowth Now

Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth (trailer)

Growthism: Its Ecological, Economic and Ethical Limits

Endless Economic Growth is Fundamentally Unsustainable

How the Not-For-Profit Model Holds the Key to Creating a People-First Economy in Balance with Nature

Trending Articles

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

Gary Chartier

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

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

Russell Means

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki

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

Panic Volkushka

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use Change the World

Films For Action

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

David Cain

Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

Birgitta Jonsdottir

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Wisdom Pills

Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

Norman Solomon

An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness

Africa Brooke

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

George Lakey

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Shareable

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

The Last Thing This Country Needed

Branko Marcetic

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

Films For Action

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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Understanding Patriarchy

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Films For Action's Vision for the Future

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Transition Documentaries

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

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Transition

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Occupy Love (2013)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

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

The Corporation (2003)

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

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

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)

Top Films to Share with City Commissioners

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

Power to the City (2014)

The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Christie Walk: A Piece Of Ecocity (2011)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

Bogota: Building A Sustainable City (2008)

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

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

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

Trending Documentaries

Schooling the World (2010)

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Gasland (2010)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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A Hidden War: Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank (2024)

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Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

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The True Story of Che Guevara

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The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

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PressPausePlay (2011)

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How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

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

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Gratitude Revealed (2022)

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United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

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Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream (2012)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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The Corporation (2003)

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Sicko (2007)

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The New American Century (2009)

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The Pandora Papers: How the World of Offshore Finance is Still Flourishing (2021)

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New Member Submissions

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How Black and White Southern Timber Workers Almost Smashed Capitalism

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HEGEMONY: How to Fight Blue MAGA (2021)

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Echoes Of A Hermit: Solitude, Resilience, and the Power Of Writing (Theatrical Version)

The Cautious Case for Harris

Israel Explodes In Protest As 6 Hostages Found Dead | The Kyle Kulinski Show

“You’re Not Serious”: AOC Roasts Jill Stein & Green Party

What the News Won't Tell You about Climate Change | Hannah Ritchie, PhD

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Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

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