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The Corporation (2003)
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
Earthlings (2005)
Schooling the World (2010)
The Secrets of Sugar (2013)
Earth Days (2009)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Chevron Vs. the Amazon (2016)
The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)
From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)
The Next Industrial Revolution (2002)
The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Taken for a Ride: The US History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century (1996)
Why Billionaires Want You to Be "Christian" Now (2025)
Laissez-faire (2015)
All Is Self (2019)
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict (2011)
Obey (2013)
The True Story of Che Guevara
13TH (2016)
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)
Secular Believers (2007)
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
Zohran Mamdani vs the Machine | Fault Lines (2025)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)
We - Arundhati Roy (2006)
The Rise of Solar Energy | Here Comes The Sun (2008)
Paradise or Oblivion (2012)
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
The One Percent (2006)
PressPausePlay (2011)
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed (2021)
Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
Belo Monte, An Announcement of War (2012)
I Lost My Job (2012)
Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability (2012)
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018) ($5)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
1 Giant Leap: What About Me? (2008)
The Sea Between Us (2016)
Sicko (2007)
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
Love And Revolution (2018)
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
Gimme Green (2007)
Unseen Tears (2009)
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2025)
Technocalyps (2006)
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
Churning the Earth (2024)
The Century of the Self (2002)
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
Against All Enemies: The Rise of Militias In The United States (2023)
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
Meat The Truth (2008)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Britain's Modern Slave Trade (2016)
Fall and Winter (2013)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
The New Rulers of the World (2001)
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013) ($3)
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2016)
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless
Down in the Hole - The Streets of Baltimore (2015)
Afro.Germany: Being Black and German (2017)
475 (2013)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)
The Square: The Egyption Revolution (2013)
END:CIV (2011)
Carnage (2017)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
The Fisherman and the Banker (2024) ($9)
Copwatch: These Streets Are Watching (2003)
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
The Great Simplification (2022)
Inequality For All (2013)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)
The Forbidden Education (2012)
The Sanctuary (2022)
Water is Love (2024)
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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...
MAGA: The Great Falling Away Is Here!
17 min - This video examines the great falling away described by the Apostle Paul and argues that the current MAGA moment reflects a deep spiritual crisis within the American church. Drawing directly from 2 Thessalonians, the video explains how the falling away is...
Why Trump REALLY Kidnapped Maduro | Matt Kennard
15 min - Matt Kennard explains how the US operates as a "gangster state." With Trump openly expressing his intention to steal Venezuela's oil, we've entered a new era of "naked imperialism," where the Western Hemisphere and the world are considered US property...
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...
How Do You Share a Country With People Who Reject Reality?
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...
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...
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...
Why the US Is Deporting So Many People
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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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.
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...
Trump Declares War on Everyone
Robert Reich - Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.
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...
Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies
Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara - If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a new, bottom-up political culture in New York City.
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.
Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform
Tim Hjersted - What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.
Renee Good's Murder: a Rorschach Test About Defiance, Vulnerability, and Community
Jordan Liz - At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from the “enemy within,” and those who embrace compassion for others. Between those with the guns, and those with...
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