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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)

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

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)

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

Blood and Oil (2008)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

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

Affluenza (1997)

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

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

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

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

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

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

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

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

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

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

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

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

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

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

We Are Many (2020)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

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

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

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

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

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

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

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

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

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

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

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

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Worker Democracy

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Worker Democracy

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

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

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Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

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

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

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

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

Doubling Down on Regeneration

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

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

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

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

Gaza’s Hunger Games

American Concentration Camps

War Deja Vu

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

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

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