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Earthlings (2005)

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The War You Don't See (2010)

Earth Days (2009)

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Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

2040: Join The Regeneration (2020)

Sicko (2007)

An American Affair: Trump's 40-Year Entanglement with the FBI and Organized Crime (2020)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Surviving Progress (2011)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

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How Stoicism Became Religion for Immature Men

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

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

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

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

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

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

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

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

We Are Many (2020)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

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

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Affluenza (1997)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

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

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

The Great Disconnect (2020)

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

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

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

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

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

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

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

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

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

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

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

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

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

LOCAL: A Story Of Hope

World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)

Local Living Economies - Protecting What We Love

Rediscovering Our Sacred Wholeness

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Dangerous Foundations: an Argument Against the "Identity" in Identity Politics

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

The Greening of the Self: the Most Important Development of Modern Times

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Love We Deserve

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

Human (2015)

Return Political Conversation to Principles, Not Identities

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Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

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The Left's Problem Isn't Politics—It's Metaphysics

A Woman Who Makes This Statement Today Needs Revolutionary Courage

Whiteness Is Blackness, and Blackness Is Whiteness

Five Ways of Being That Can Change the World

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The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

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END:CIV (2011)

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Miss Representation (2011) ($4)

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Unity (2015) ($13)

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Inequality For All (2013)

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

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HyperNormalisation (2016)

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Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

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HOME (2009)

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The End of Suburbia (2004)

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The Yes Men: Changing the World One Prank at a Time (2004)

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The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)

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Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)

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

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Unseen Tears (2009)

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The Liberalism to Fascism Pipeline (Neoliberalism Explained)

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Aris Mining's Violations

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