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Trending Documentaries

Who Rules America? (2012)

HyperNormalisation (2016)

The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)

Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Israelism (2023)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

PressPausePlay (2011)

Seizing the West Bank: Extremist Settlers In Power (2024)

Investigating Trump, Project 2025 and the Future of the United States | Four Corners (2024)

America: From Freedom to Fascism (2006)

Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion (2019)

The Monopoly On Violence (2020)

Beware Of Images (2016)

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

9/11: Press for Truth (2006)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

Future Suspended (2014)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Uganda Dictatorship: Imperialism's Pearl of Africa (2021)

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

Praying for Armageddon (2024)

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

Digital Wampum: Testimony of the Iroquois | 8-Part Series

How Israel Won the West (2024)

Together We Grow (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Sanctuary (2022)

Planet Community: A 5-Part Series Exploring Cooperation in Action (2019)

The Corporation (2003)

Churning the Earth (2024)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance (1982)

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Water is Love (2024)

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

Israel: Above the law? (2024)

Patron Exlusive Films

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

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

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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

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

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

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

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

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

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

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

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

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

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

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Affluenza (1997)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

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

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

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

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

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

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

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

We Are Many (2020)

Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

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

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

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

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

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

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

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

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

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Media Literacy

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

Beware Of Images (2016)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Social Dilemma (trailer)

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

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

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

The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose – How Films, Series and Video Games Reveal What Really Drives Us

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

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

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

The Creativity Delusion: There is no Genius

Corporate Jargon - Lying by Obscurity, Obscuring to Hide Corruption

How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever

Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans

Donald Trump: The Sitcom Misogynist

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Stalking for Love

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

How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War

The Miseducation of Dylann Roof

The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines

The News Is Center Right

Cities are the Ideal Scale to Focus Solution-Efforts

How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

The Future of Cities

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

15-Minute Cities for Leftists

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Sleeping Giant: A Localist Manifesto

Trending Articles

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

David Loy

Gaza’s Hunger Games

Chris Hedges

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

Chris Hedges

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

Chris Hedges

War Deja Vu

Chris Hedges

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

What It Means To Communicate

Krishnananda and Amana

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

A Simple Guide to 10 Personal Care Products You Can Make at Home

Health Perch

A New Ideal: Why We Need to Reject Being "Realistic" About the Status Quo and Be Idealists

Mark Corske

The Next Net

Douglas Rushkoff

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh

Choosing Life

Chris Hedges

The Momentum Story: How the Bernie Sanders Crowd Can Still Win

Paul Hilder

Violence Is a Preventable Brain Disorder

Jacob Devaney

Pro Anti

Angela Mitropoulos

Netanyahu's Real Goal is to End Palestinian Sovereignty

Nafeez Ahmed

How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of "Interbeing"

Maria Popova

White Purity and The Problem with White Privilege Activism

Asad Haider

The Button

Josh Liveright

Films to Counter US Media's Dehumanization of Palestinians

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (trailer)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (trailer)

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

Life in Occupied Palestine (trailer)

Israelism (2023)

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

The War Around Us (trailer)

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (trailer)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (trailer)

Criminalizing Dissent: Silencing Pro-Palestinian Speech

With God on Our Side (2010)

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

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What Trump’s Threat To Take Over Cities Says About Our Democracy

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How ICE Detentions Make Private Prison Ceos Richer

Iran: It's The SAME BULLSH*T Again

Israel is Paying Influencers to Spread Its Propaganda

BRICS Expands To Majority of World Population: Vietnam Joins, USA Fails To Divide China & Vietnam

The Secret Israel Plot To Ban Palestine Action

If You Write with AI, You're Not a Writer and Other Lies

Jon Stewart on Israel’s "Urgent" Iran Strike, Minnesota Murders & MAGA’s Blame Game | The Daily Show

Who Is the Supreme Court Really Giving All This Power To?

Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?

I Worked for Big Pharma: What I Saw Will Shock You

Zohran Is Really Really Good at This

DEBUNKING Netanyahu’s Claim That Hamas Takes Aid

Palantir CEO Predicted US War on Iran, Russia, and China

There Is No Immigration Crisis and Never Was

War on Iran Is Part of US Plan for Global Domination: Economist Michael Hudson Explains

What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains

The Truth About Trump’s Tariffs

On June 14th, Give Trump an Unhappy Birthday

US VP JD Vance Announces New Strategy of Blatant Imperialism, Aimed at China

The Real Reasons for the US-Israeli War on Iran, Explained

Israel Drops 500lb Bomb On Gaza Cafe

Top 10 Most Islamophobic & Unhinged Responses To Mamdani's Win

How Koyaanisqatsi Changes Our Perspective On Modernity

The Most Corrupt Corporation In the World Is Taking Over Our Food Supply

Most Watched Documentaries

Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)

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First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

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

This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)

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Tapped (2009)

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

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

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Bitter Lake (2015)

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The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)

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Surviving Progress (2011)

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Not Business As Usual (2014)

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Grass: A Marijuana History (1999) ($5)

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Occupy Love (2013)

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A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

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Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

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Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)

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No Impact Man (2009) ($4)

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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)

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Enough Is Enough (2014)

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)

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Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

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Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

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Mother: Caring for 7 Billion (2011) ($4)

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

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

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Reading Library

Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?

How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo

War Deja Vu

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

Doubling Down on Regeneration

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

Gaza’s Hunger Games

The Rule of Idiots

Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.

Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

The Next Person in a Cell With No Charges Could Be You

Profiting From Genocide

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