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Planet Local: A Short Film Series about the Beautiful Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 5: Challenges & Solutions

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 7: A Little More Inspiration

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

Reading Library

The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

The Age of Social Murder

To Reason With a Madman

Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die

The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows

The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About

You Can't Hurt the Gangsters at the Capitalist Casino by Shuffling the Chips Around to Different Bets. You Take Their Chips off the Table.

The Oligarchy Knows Class Warfare Is the Real Fight—Why Don't Liberals?

Open Letter to Bernie, the Squad and Progressive US Lawmakers: State Repression of the Farmers’ Movement in India

The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming

We Must Act With Unprecedented Boldness to Meet These Historical Crises

The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

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

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

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

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

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

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

Foundational Knowledge For Addressing Root Causes

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

Violence Is a Preventable Brain Disorder

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

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

Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

This Video Dispels a Great Myth about Human Nature that Will Restore Your Hope in Humanity

Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

A Non-religious Man Virtually Eliminates Local Crime with Nothing More than a Buddha Statue

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

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

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

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

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

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

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

Trending Articles

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Gavin Aung Than

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Russell Means

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

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

Wisdom Pills

The Confederacy Was a Con Job on Whites - and Still Is

Frank Hyman

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

Yasha Levine

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

Panic Volkushka

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Tim Hjersted

Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet

Jordan Engel

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

David Cain

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

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)

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) (trailer)

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)

How Government Works

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

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

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

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

Governments Lie: Howard Zinn on Understanding Class, War, and Immigration Through History

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

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

BBC: The Power of Nightmares (2004)

The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)

Who Rules America? (2012)

War By Other Means (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

The Shock Doctrine (2009)

Bitter Lake (2015)

Knock Down The House (2019)

Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in

Occupy Your Brain: The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society

The End of the Corporation?

How to Fix the World

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

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

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

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

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

Wanted: Men Who Love

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power

The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy

Understanding Patriarchy

The White Working-Class Must Name The True Root of Their Problems If They Ever Want to Get Free

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

Trending Documentaries

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

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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Why Don't We Quit Those Bullshit Jobs? (2019)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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The Corporation (2003)

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The Fourth Estate (2015)

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Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Hearts and Minds (1974)

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Earth Days (2009)

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Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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FLOW: For Love of Water (2008)

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Sicko (2007)

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

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Occupy Love (2013)

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This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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Back to Eden: Simple Sustainable Solutions (2011)

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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)

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

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Is The State Your Enemy?

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Capitol Riot Explained

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

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

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

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Journalists Attack the Powerless, Then Self-Victimize to Bar Criticisms of Themselves

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