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Most Watched Documentaries

The Super-Rich and Us (2015)

25,079 views

97% Owned (2012)

29,408 views

Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

41,654 views

Planet Ocean (2014)

22,098 views

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

25,488 views

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

33,323 views

Escape! From the Cult of Materialism (2016)

32,609 views

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

22,747 views

The War You Don't See (2010)

68,143 views

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

28,665 views

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

149,948 views

Will Work For Free (2013)

20,060 views

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

154,495 views

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

71,073 views

Food Inc. (2008)

227,690 views

Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)

29,888 views

ʻĀINA: That Which Feeds Us (2015)

21,783 views

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

46,210 views

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

388,243 views

Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It's Haunting.

43,195 views

Sicko (2007)

181,950 views

Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room (2005)

29,583 views

Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

29,761 views

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

21,104 views

#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

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

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

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

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

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

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

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

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

The Mask You Live In: An Exploration Of American Masculinity (2015)

Is It Time to Say Goodbye to the Non-Binary in Gender?

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Wanted: Men Who Love

Ode to Great Mother

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

The Four Qualities of True Love | Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up.

We Are Not Black

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Identity: In & Beyond The Binary (2015)

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

Healing the Divine Masculine

The Revolution Is Acceptance

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Solution Documentaries

Framing Reality: A Plan for the Future (2020)

Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better (2013)

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

The Killing Fields: How Land Taxation Can Support Wildlife Conservation In a Radical Way (2013)

Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (2008)

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)

A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan (2019)

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

Regreening the Planet (2014)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

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

Trending Articles

A Final Response to "Tell Me Why Trump Is a Fascist?"

marisam7

13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement

Starhawk

10 Life Hacks to Help You Cut Plastic Out of the Picture

Kate Good

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

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

Films For Action

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

Films For Action

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

Shareable

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

David Cain

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

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Why French Kids Don't have ADHD

Marilyn Wedge

The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It

Tim Hjersted

Everything Explained With One Simple Analogy

Joshua Idehen

Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party

Alan Minsky

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

Russell Means

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

Wisdom Pills

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

George Lakey

Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World

Tim Hjersted

The Top 250 Transition Documentaries Inspiring a Thriving Future

Films For Action

The Movement We Need

Starhawk

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies

Michael Moore

5 Of The Best Subvertising Campaigns

Andrew Butler

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*

Julio Vincent Gambuto

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

Tim Hjersted

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

The Martin Luther King Jr. You Don't See on TV

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme

The Martin Luther King You Don't See on TV

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why I Have Mixed Feelings About MLK Day

Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Six Principles of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Promised Land Is Still Not Here

MLK: Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence (1967)

MLK was Planning Something Huge Just Weeks Before He was Assassinated

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

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

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

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

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

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

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

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)

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests

The Conflation Trap: How the Left & the Right Are Fooled Into Supporting the Same Elite Interests

Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America

America's Real Divide Isn't Left Vs. Right. It's Democracy Vs. Oligarchy

This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

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

Exposing the American Okie-Doke: Russiagate, Corporate Propaganda, and the Historical Obstruction of Class Consciousness

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

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

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

Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy

Barack Obama VS Those Craaaazy Republicans: Is He the Lesser Evil, or the More Effective Evil?

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

The Cult of Trump

Rebel Wisdom

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

Addicted to Ideology? | Gabor Maté

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein

"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)

Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (2019)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Is It Time to Change Course on Covid? | William Eden

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes

Reading Library

Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party

Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World

All-Aboard for Free Public Transport

Why People Hate Socialism—And What It Actually Is

Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies

50 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It

Revenge of the Deplorables?

UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza

The Movement We Need

13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement

The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations

This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason

A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy

Doubling Down: the Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.

Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible

Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World

The Politics of Cultural Despair

10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won

Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice

Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most

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