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Israelism (2023)

HyperNormalisation (2016)

The Corporation (2003)

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

The Settlers (2016)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Julian Assange and the Dark Secrets of War (2024)

System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)

This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

Earthlings (2005)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Earth Days (2009)

Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004)

The Shitthropocene: Welcome to the Age of Cheap Crap (2024)

Coconut Revolution: "The world's first successful eco-revolution."

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

Escape! From the Cult of Materialism (2016)

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

The Rise of The Ultra-Right in The US (2025)

In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024) ($20)

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death (2024)

Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)

Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)

Patron Exlusive Films

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

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

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

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

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

Affluenza (1997)

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

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

Blood and Oil (2008)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

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

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

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

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

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Are Many (2020)

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

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

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

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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

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

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

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

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

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

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Manifestos!

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Manifesto for a Post-Growth Economy

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

Manifesto for Wholesome Cooperation: a Sociocratic Perspective

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

An Obscure German Philosopher's Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism

Manifesto on Feminism

Manifesto for a Good Life

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

Marx Is Back: A Fictional Mini-Series Based on the Communist Manifesto

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

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

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

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

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

The Corporation (2003)

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

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

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

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

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

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

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

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

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

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

George Lakey

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

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Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

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

Panic Volkushka

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

American Exceptionalism, American Innocence, and What Comes Next: An Interview With Danny Haiphong

Colin Jenkins

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To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

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How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty

Tim Hjersted

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

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

Russell Means

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'

Liam O'Ceallaigh

American Concentration Camps

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Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

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The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

Prefigurology

Christianity

The Future of Christianity

James Talarico Delivers POWERFUL Sermon Against Christian Nationalism, Revealing The True Spirit of Christ

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Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr

With God on Our Side (2010)

Chris Hedges & Abby Martin - Trump, Fascism & the Christian Right

Reading Library

We Asked Our Community How We Can Make America Great—Here's What They Said

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Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

Pentagon Contractors Don’t Save Lives or Money — Medicaid Does

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

The Illegality of Russia's War Does Not Justify Perpetual War

American Concentration Camps

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

The Left Needs to Learn the Difference Between Imperfect Allies and Our True Opponents

How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine

Doubling Down on Regeneration

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims

The Right's Wokeness Problem

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

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

10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game

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Bitter Lake (2015)

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The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)

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Laboratory Greece (2019)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

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Miss Representation (2011) ($4)

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

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Coconut Revolution (2001)

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The Cove (2009) ($2)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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The Silence of the Pandas - What the WWF Isn’t Saying (2011)

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Sex, Lies, & Cigarettes (2012)

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

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Down To Earth (2020)

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The Fog of War (2003) ($3)

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Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

Enron - The Smartest Guys In The Room (2005) ($3)

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Before the Flood (2016) ($4)

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New Member Submissions

Yanis Varoufakis Explains How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity

What Have We Become? | Theo Von

Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)

A Radical Guide to Reality

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

'CHALK. NATURE. WILL. - A Story from the Duars

System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)

I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell.

Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

Trump & Deportations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The story of the Holocaust survivor who leads pro-Palestine protests | Stephen Kapos| UNAPOLOGETIC |

The Divided Brain (2019)

No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)

How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar

The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity

What If You Didn’t Need a Paycheck to Live? A Short Introduction to the People's Library

“Living In This Ecovillage Costs $200 per Month (All Inclusive)”

The Self-Improvement Lie

The Privatization Of Everything | How America Sold Itself Out

100 Days of Chaos and Greed

We Talked To Trump Voters. They Have A Warning For Him. | Ft. John Russell

Is War on China Coming? The US Military Is Seriously Preparing

5 Solarpunk Communities That Will Bring You Hope

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

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Biden's Gaza Lies Exposed BY BOMBSHELL Investigation

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