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Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
The Corporation (2003)
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Earth Days (2009)
Unseen Tears (2009)
Earthlings (2005)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
Schooling the World (2010)
Southern Discomfort (2017)
Metamorphosis: The Ayahuasca Ceremony Of The Amazon (2009)
Why Jordan Peterson Lost the Culture War (2026)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
How Israel Won the West (2024)
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution (2024)
Fairytales of Growth (2020)
Worse Than War (2010)
13TH (2016)
Gimme Green (2007)
How Algorithms Created Fascism in America (2026)
Hillary Clinton's Business of Corporate Shilling & War Making (2016)
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Water is Love (2024)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Why Billionaires Want You to Be "Christian" Now (2025)
Human (2015)
Beware Of Images (2016)
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
Possum Living (1980)
Immuto (Change)
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)
Imprint (2023)
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
After Winter, Spring (2015) ($4)
An American Affair: Trump's 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime (2020)
Modulations (1998)
United in Anger: a History of ACT UP (2012) ($4)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
The Fisherman and the Banker (2024) ($9)
Carnage (2017)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
Our Consumer Society (2022)
Grass: A Marijuana History (1999) ($5)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The End of Poverty (2009)
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis (2021)
PressPausePlay (2011)
Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion (2019)
The Globalisation Tapes (2003)
Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)
The Resurrection of Victor Jara (2015) ($5)
A.L.F. Behind the Mask: The Story Of The People Who Risk Everything To Save Animals (2008)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Cocaine Unwrapped (2011) ($4)
The Story of Food (2020)
Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)
Countdown to Zero (2010)
What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)
The True Story of Che Guevara
The Shitthropocene: Welcome to the Age of Cheap Crap (2024)
The Plastic Problem (2019)
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
1 Giant Leap: What About Me? (2008)
The Worst Thing (2019) ($2)
Climate Inertia: Why Change Feels Impossible (2022)
Miss Representation (2011) ($4)
Buying the War: How Big Media Failed Us (2007)
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)
Fall and Winter (2013)
Nothing To Hide (2017)
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)
Sand Wars (2013) ($8)
Endgame 2050: Humanity's Last Chance Is Now (2020)
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
Fast Fashion: The Shady World of Cheap Clothing (2022)
Culture of Fear (2009)
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
White Right: Meeting The Enemy (2017)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)
The End of Suburbia (2004)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Sicko (2007)
The Need to GROW (2019)
The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)
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Critiques of "Wokeness" from a Left Perspective
The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi
Wokeness Kills Class Politics and Empowers Empire (w/ Christian Parenti) | The Chris Hedges Report
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi
A Rainbow of Inequality: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
The Problem with Wokeness From a Left Perspective
Exiting the Vampire Castle
An Open Letter: Why I'm Leaving the Cult of Wokeness
The Right's Wokeness Problem
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi
Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?
Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism
The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Reflections on Privilege Theory: Why I'm Looking for a Better Way to Communicate This Idea
Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed
A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves
With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism
Identity Politics and the Professional-Managerial Class
How "Woke Racism" Hurts Black People | John McWhorter
Privilege Discourse Has Noble Intentions but Perhaps It's Time to Consider Its Unintended Impacts
On Privilege: a Leftist Critique of the Left
The Politics of Being Woke
The Woke CIA PsyOp
Not All Politics Is Identity Politics
A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality
Democracy Doesn’t Exist in the United States | Chris Hedges
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The Incel to Alt-Right Pipeline
38 min - LJ discusses the "Incel to Alt-Right Pipeline," focusing on how online radicalization, particularly within the manosphere and incel movements, spills into real-world behavior and political influence. It highlights a controversial incident in January 2026...
The Money Cult of American Christianity
38 min - Michae Burns explores how American Christianity, particularly in its dominant evangelical form, has become deeply intertwined with capitalism, creating a "money cult" where economic success is seen as a sign of God's blessing. He argues that this fusion...
How Did a Bunch of Teens Take Down Nepal’s Government?
8 min - Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to Nepal for inspiration on how to use social platforms to challenge power...
Did Trump Keep ANY of His Campaign Promises?
12 min - The Trump regime started the week by telling lies about Alex Pretti's murder. Now, Trump has pivoted back to telling lies about the economy in order to change the subject. But on both fronts, Trump's year back in office has been filled with broken...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
174 min - Adam Curtis directs this 3-part series about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. The series begins by unraveling the surprising influence of Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy on Silicon Valley titans and economic powerbrokers like...
What the Media Is Hiding About ICE
17 min - What would it take for you to call this a crisis? In Minnesota, federal agents have killed civilians - and outside the United States, much of the world’s media is calling it what it is: state violence against citizens. But inside America, it’s being...
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
62 min - Fourteen years after his first visit and 2011 film The Ultra Zionists , Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the West Bank. Louis Theroux spends time with the growing community of Israeli...
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
560 min - Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. Support the filmmaker's next film with a donation via his website. "Absolutely brilliant on numerous levels...
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How to Build a Real General Strike Against ICE
Eric Blanc - Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Films For Action - Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can envision a thousand ways that humanity might destroy itself...
10 Rules of Resistance for #ICEOut
Rivera Sun - Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
As Trump Attacks the Republic, The Cowardly Democratic Party Still Won’t Fight to Win
Ralph Nader - With few exceptions, the Democratic Party apparatus is coasting, playing “it safe,” and expecting that the Trumpsters will deliver the Congress to it in November.
How Did MLK Jr. Become a Socialist?
Eric Blanc - A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
The Two Reflexes That Are Breaking the Left
Mehran Khalili - Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
In Defence of a Basic Land Income
Manuel Casal Lodeiro - The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario.
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth - Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men – as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based on maternal values: care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds...
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