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The History Our Culture Doesn't Teach

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

Schooling the World (2010)

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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

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

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Utopia (2013)

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

Where the Term "Redneck" Came From

Monumental Myths (2009)

Climate Change Documentaries

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Troublemaker (2020) ($4)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

A Climate Of Change (2014)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disruption (2014)

Do the Math (2013)

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012)

Tomorrow's Power (2019)

The Carbon Rush (2019)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Years of Living Dangerously (2014)

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

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

2040 (trailer)

Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)

The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)

Before the Flood (2016) ($4)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

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

A Quest for Meaning

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Down To Earth (2020)

Ego Not Bad

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)

The Global Brain: Peter Russell (1983)

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Grow Food Not Lawns!

Gimme Green (2007)

Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors

Permaculture Has Some Incredible Solutions For Transforming Suburbia Into Resilient Communities

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

From Gangs to Gardens (2014)

Lawns Are for Suckers. Plant a Garden - for the Climate!

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America

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

The Anarchist Urban Ecosystem: A Rethinking of the Urban Environment

3 Acres in Detroit - Transforming Abandoned Properties into Urban Farms

Heal The Land, Heal The Spirit : Wanda Stewart

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

Down To Earth: Small Farm Issues In a Big Farm World (2013)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

How Gardening Helps Students Grow

Homeless People Plant a Huge Organic Garden, and Feed an Entire Shelter

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Films For Action

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Jan Hunt

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

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

Melody Walford

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

Russell Means

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

David Cain

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Maria Popova

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next

Joanna Macy

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

Panic Volkushka

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

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

Yasha Levine

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Our Mentor: Thich Nhat Hanh

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Four Qualities of True Love

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

Double Down News

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

George Monbiot Exposes Coronavirus Corruption at the Heart of Government

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

On Demand Films Now Streaming For Free

Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Documentaries by Scott Noble

The War at Home: Rebellion (2020)

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

The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

22 Films to Watch After (Or Instead of) Planet of the Humans

Planet of the Humans (2019) ($4)

Renewables Can't Power Capitalism, But They Can Power Ecosocialism

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)

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

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

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

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Our Land: A 7 Part Series about Revolutionizing Our Relationship to Food & Land

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

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

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Enough Is Enough (2014)

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

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Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

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We Are Many (2020) ($5)

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

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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)

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America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

The Capitol Riot Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

Censorship and the Future of the Internet

How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics

Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace

You're Probably Already A Socialist

Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?

Is Universal Basic Income The Future?

America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly

The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism

Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline

America's Stunted Political Spectrum

Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response

Racist Statues and Revisionist History

Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement

How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)

Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?

Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism

America's Unemployment Problem

New Member Submissions

Nicholas Christakis - Our Common Humanity

How Can A Global Conspiracy Work?

Jane Goodall - Pandemic

Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment

The Danger of a Single Story

From North to South (2021)

How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy

Dear Thalia | PBS HAWAIʻI PRESENTS (2021)

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot

Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die

Essays from the Heart: Dancing with Beauty (2021) (trailer)

Vampires, They Exist?! (2020)

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