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Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

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

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

Capitalism

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

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

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (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) (trailer)

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

Short Films

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

Human Beings Were NOT Meant to Be Labeled! We Were Meant to Be Free. Free to Just, Be.

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté

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

The Story of Stuff

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

The Story of Solutions: Why Making Real Change Starts with Changing the Game

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

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

The Story of Change

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

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

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

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

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Wake Up Call: End the Nightmare of Consumption

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

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

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

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

Happiness

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

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

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Most Watched Documentaries

King Corn (2007) ($3)

72,858 views

Subconscious War (2011)

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Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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A New Story for Humanity (2016)

105,872 views

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

109,843 views

Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)

146,717 views

The Superior Human? (2012)

61,957 views

Rebel Architecture (2014)

The Corporation (2003)

216,681 views

American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)

145,808 views

Personal Change Is Good, Collective Organizing Is Better

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

Neoliberalism Has Conned Us Into Fighting Climate Change as Individuals

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

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

How Corporations Shifted The Blame For Climate Change

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

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

4 Key Elements to Organizing for the Long Haul

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

HOLY SH*T! 7 Things to Do Instead of Hoarding Toilet Paper

From Mutual Aid to Dual Power in the State of Emergency

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Our Activism Must Be Focused on Serving the People

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone

The Cynic and the Boatbuilder

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

We Have Been Groomed to Consume

Trending Articles

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

David Cain

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Defiance in the Face of Oppression - Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Defends the Right to Draw

Gavin Aung Than

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

Yasha Levine

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

25 Thought-Provoking Pieces From A Prize-Winning Polish Cartoonist

Pawel Kuczynski

25 Cheat Sheets for Taking Care of Yourself Like a Damn Adult

Anna Borges

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

Panic Volkushka

87 Deeply Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

Films For Action

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Reclaiming Youth International

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

Tim Hjersted

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

Wisdom Pills

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Helena Norberg-Hodge and Steven Gorelick

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Daniel Quinn

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! Now Find Your Tribe. Imagine Something Beautiful and Focus on Creating It.

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

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

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

On Demand Films Now Streaming For Free

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

Fall and Winter (2013)

99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013) ($6)

New Documentaries

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019) ($3)

Seeing Through The Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine and Israel (2017) ($2)

The Condition of the Working Class (2013)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($4)

Killing Gaza (2018)

Gaza Fights For Freedom | Directed by Abby Martin (2019)

Our Planet - Episode 2: Frozen Worlds (2019)

Money Puzzles (2016)

MLK/FBI (2021) ($5)

Climate Change Babies (2021)

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

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Your Capacity to Feel

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture

Everything Is A Remix (2015)

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

What is Creative Commons?

Why Use Creative Commons Licenses?

Here, Copy This Lady's Idea And Make Your Own Community A Little More Wonderful

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

Trending Documentaries

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

1061 mins watched today

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

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Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

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The Culture High (2014)

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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The Corporation (2003)

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Sicko (2007)

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The Power of Nightmares (2004)

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Future Dreaming (2015)

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Metamorphosis: The Ayahuasca Ceremony Of The Amazon (2009)

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PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

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Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

86 mins watched today

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

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Our $5+ Patreon Supporters Can Watch These Films for Free

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($4)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($4)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($4)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($4)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($6)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($3)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($4)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($6)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($4)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($2)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Best New Films that are Free to Watch (2021)

InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

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

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Gaza Fights For Freedom | Directed by Abby Martin (2019)

Killing Gaza (2018)

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

New Member Submissions

YouTube Enforcing “Thought Crime”Censorship

Dead Teacher Working: Edtech and the Neoliberal University

Renegade Inc | This is How Universities Die… (2021)

Speech Defects - No. 40 - July 2018

First Amendment's Slippery Slope: Why Are Civil Liberties Advocates Joining Forces With the Right?

How Conservatives Weaponized the First Amendment

Why the Green New Deal Has Failed — so Far

Michael Brooks on Why the War on the Poor Must End

Neoliberalism Won’t Take Real Action to Stop Climate Change

When LIVING IN A CAR is Your Last Choice - "Mobile" a Short Film (2021)

The Day the World Stood Together (2021)

Extinction Rebellion’s Liberal Moralism Can’t Save the Planet

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