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Earth Days (2009)
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Earthlings (2005)
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Klamath (2016)
The Corporation (2003)
The Secrets of Sugar (2013)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Why Billionaires Want You to Be "Christian" Now (2025)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Chevron Vs. the Amazon (2016)
The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)
13TH (2016)
Dakota 38 (2012)
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
Taken for a Ride: The US History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century (1996)
Culture of Fear (2009)
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
END:CIV (2011)
Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)
My Enemy, My Brother (2017)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
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The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability (2012)
We - Arundhati Roy (2006)
Future Suspended (2014)
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)
Prime Farmland - FULL FILM - Data Centers - New Carlisle, Indiana - Joy & Gene VanLue (2020)
1 Giant Leap: What About Me? (2008)
Living in the Time of Dying (2020)
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
Israelism (2023)
Sicko (2007)
Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)
Dominion (2018)
The End of Poverty (2009)
The New Corporation (2022)
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Technocalyps (2006)
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2025)
Down To Earth (2020)
Living With Dying (2022)
The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018) ($5)
HOME (2009)
The One Percent (2006)
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
It's Revolution or Death (2025)
The Sacred Science (2011)
Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)
Meat The Truth (2008)
The New Rulers of the World (2001)
House Music: A Cultural Revolution (2024)
Salmon Confidential (2013)
Against All Enemies: The Rise of Militias In The United States (2023)
The Rise of The Ultra-Right in The US (2025)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
The Great Simplification (2022)
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
Inequality For All (2013)
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)
Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
Gather (2020) ($4)
How to Make a Fascist (2025)
Whitewashed: Unmasking the World of Whiteness (2013)
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
An American Affair: Trump's 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime (2020)
Carnage (2017)
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet (2009)
Affluenza (1997)
Open to the Public? (2011)
The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)
Eurotopia: Why the EU Needs a New Vision (2016)
Churning the Earth (2024)
Middle Sexes: Redefining He And She (2005)
Before the Flood (2016) ($4)
Water is Love (2024)
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)
Going Circular (2021)
The Monopoly On Violence (2020)
Collaboration: on the Edge of a New Paradigm? (2015)
US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)
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Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
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Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
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9 min - "They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite...
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46 min - How the American immigration police got so powerful. Check out all my sources for this video here . ICE, a government agency created after the 9/11 attacks, seems to have free rein under the Trump administration. How did we get here? How did ICE become so...
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8 min - In the aftermath of the Renee Good murder, it’s become brutally clear that millions of people are no longer just disagreeing on policy opinions or even values, they’re disagreeing on what happened. The same video, the same evidence, is producing completely...
ICE Is Now Literally Breaking Down People’s Doors in 1930s Gestapo-Style Raids
18 min - The scene in Minneapolis looks eerily familiar to 1930s Germany. In the aftermath of ICE’s execution of Renee Good, the ICE gestapo has threatened, harassed, assaulted, and terrorized countless others in Minneapolis and elsewhere. To boot, hordes of ICE...
What If We Bought Land With Our Friends and Built Houses Together?
5 min - This year, my friends and I are taking on a huge project. We're going to try to build our own houses on land that we bought this summer. After almost 5 years of research and almost two years of actually working on a natural house, I think my friends and I...
EXPOSED: ICE Agents ‘TERRIFIED’ as Families DISOWN Them | The Kyle Kulinski Show
19 min - In this video, Kyle Kulinski discusses the crisis within ICE, highlighting how community pushback in Minneapolis is impacting agents' morale and leading to internal dissent. Support The Show On Patreon!: https://www.patreon.com/seculartalk
What Is Fascism? | A Complete Guide (From a Former Fascist)
105 min - This in-depth video explores what fascism is, why it is so hard to define, and how people can embrace fascist ideas without recognizing themselves as fascists. Drawing on key scholars such as Robert Paxton, Roger Griffin, Jason Stanley, Umberto Eco, and...
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...
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The Machinery of Terror
Chris Hedges - The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
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Tim Hjersted - To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks down his suggestions into actionable steps.
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
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Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow
Qasim Rashid - Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism
Tim Hjersted - We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but by branding American empire and Christian nationalism as defenders of liberty rather than as collective projects, the propaganda renders today's most powerful...
The Loneliness of Being an Iranian in the Diaspora
Elaheh Farmand - I sit with the reality that I have no idea what Iranians really want. I don’t know what they go through day to day. I haven’t been on the ground. I haven’t spoken to them.
Organize! Yes, but How?
Rasmus Hästbacka - When the wild times we’re living through demand strong social movements, Sweden’s multitude of movements are in a lousy shape. The same goes for the Swedish union movement. The problem isn’t “all talk and no action.” There’s barely even any talk about...
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