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Trending Documentaries

Earth Days (2009)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

D’autres Mondes (Other Worlds) (2004)

Surviving Progress (2011)

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

Israelism (2023)

Middle Sexes: Redefining He And She (2005)

South of The Border (2010)

In Defence of Life (2016)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

Seizing the West Bank: Extremist Settlers In Power (2024)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

HyperNormalisation (2016)

Economics for People (2019)

In Our Backyard (A Monsanto Introspective) (2009)

Laissez-faire (2015)

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

Recently Added

Trump Regime CRIMINALLY CHARGES Climate Groups | The Kyle Kulinski Show

The Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert Reich

Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)

Trump REFUSES to Free Innocent Immigrant He Sent to a Gulag, Says Americans Are Next

The Encampments (trailer)

"Jill Stein 2028!"

The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis | John Mearsheimer (2015)

Trans Athletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Expert on Fascism Explains Why He’s Getting Out of America, Offers Chilling Warning

Democrats: Stop Running to the Center (Code for Republican-Lite). You're Already Too Right-Wing.

Fox News Journalist DEBUNKS IDF Lie

What Is Neoliberalism? How the 'Washington Consensus' was Imposed on the World

Kyle Kulinski's Message to “Fake Lefty” Bernie HATERS: "GO F*CK YOURSELF"

Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)

Trump’s GLOBAL Far Right Network Is Growing

Who's Really Calling the Shots in the Trump Administration

Honest Government Ad | Canada Election 2025

HUMILIATION: FULL Signal Chats EXPOSE Trump Admin Lies

Anti-Racism is a Big Movement: Here are Some of the Conversations & Ideas That You May Have Missed

Thandeka: Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed

A Decolonial Critique of the Concept of White Privilege: Why Injustice Is Not a Privilege

The White Fragility Hustle

Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments

We Can’t Just Oppose Racism: We Must Transcend Race

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

Actually Color Blindness Isn't Racist | Coleman Hughes

We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Check Your White Privilege?

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice

Working Assumptions for White Activists on Eliminating Racism: Guidelines for Recruiting Other Whites as Allies

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

Trailers

Money & Life (2013)

Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)

The Collective Evolution III: The Shift (2014)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

We Belong to the Earth (2018)

This Living Salish Sea

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022) ($4)

Protected Areas

Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2015)

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis (2018)

Saving Papua by Not Cycling There

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The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

Stephen Mitchell

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

Kate Good

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

Chris Hedges

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

Yasha Levine

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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

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

Tim Hjersted

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

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The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

Tim Hjersted

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

20 Principles I Wish Were More Popular on the Left

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Is a Slick Marketing Piece Full of Half-Truths and Distortions

Rick Ayers

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

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

Panic Volkushka

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

David Cain

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Tim Hjersted

15 Powerful Quotes From the World's Most Humble President

Hyacinth Mascarenhas

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

Why People Hate Socialism—And What It Actually Is

Tim Hjersted

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly

Anonymous Anarchist

Racism is a Strategy to Divide & Conquer the Working Class

Dear Trump Voters: To Attain Freedom, We Must Name The True Root of Our Problems

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

Class Conflict Between Elite Whites and Poor Whites - The Invisible Race Problem That's Killing Black Americans

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

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

Must See Chart: This Is What Class War Looks Like

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

Gangsters for Capitalism: Why the US Working Class Enlists

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

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

Race Traitors Wanted: Apply Within

Class Wars: the Working Class Strikes Back

Reading Library

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books. They Live Among Us. They're Everywhere

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

Why Working People Need a Political Movement of Their Own

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

Behind Trump's Antiwar Bluster, His Goal Is to Turn Ukraine Into a Resource Colony for US Corporations

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

Our 2 Choices: Join the Democratic Party to Transform It, or Acquiesce to Fascism

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

First They Came for Mahmoud Khalil

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

The Right's Wokeness Problem

The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”

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

Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name

Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Most Watched Documentaries

What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

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Plastic Planet (2009)

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PBS FRONTLINE: The Merchants of Cool (2001)

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Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

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Miss Representation (2011) ($4)

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

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Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)

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HOME (2009)

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Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (2009)

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PLANETARY (2015) ($1)

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

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Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)

Rebel Architecture (2014)

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END:CIV (2011)

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Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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Culture In Decline #3: C.V.D. - Consumption Vanity Disorder

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The Zionist Story (2009)

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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn: What Was Done (2017)

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Affluenza (1997)

42,957 views

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)

35,577 views

Seeds of Freedom (2012)

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New Member Submissions

Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm (2025)

In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)

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

'WE WOULD LOSE' War with Iran (w/ Col. Lawrence Wilkerson)

The Self-Defeating Politics of the American Left

The Liberalism to Fascism Pipeline (Neoliberalism Explained)

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Aris Mining's Violations

Columbia Professor Is Secret Israeli Spy And She's At The Heart of Mahmoud Khalil Scandal

The Right's Wokeness Problem

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

How Fascism WON in America

They Voted for Trump. Here’s Why They Feel Betrayed

Military Vet: ‘If Veterans Can Unlearn the Propaganda, There’s Hope for Humanity’

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

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

The Corporate Veil

Elon Musk Is Wrong: Without Empathy, Civilization Ceases to Be Anything Worthy of the Name

Elon Musk’s Comment on Empathy Is Much Worse Than You Thought

The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books. They Live Among Us. They're Everywhere

Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work? | Robert Reich

Historian Heather Cox Richardson: 'We're Already In a Coup'

Attacking Trump Without a Positive Alternative Is a Losing Game

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

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