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Free Movies to Watch This Winter

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

Down To Earth (2020)

The War at Home: Rebellion (2020)

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

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

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

Punishment: A Failed Social Experiment (2012)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Inner Climate Change: The Change Starts Within You (2020)

Tears in the Bayou - The Streets of Houston (2017)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Documentaries about Living the Change

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013)

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

Watch These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness (2013)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Schooling the World (2010)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Money & Life (2013)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

Culture In Decline

Culture in Decline #1: What Democracy?

Culture in Decline #2: Economics 101

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

Culture In Decline #4: The War on Nature

Culture in Decline #5: Baby Go Boom!

Culture in Decline #6: Tale of Two Worlds

Raising Children

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (trailer)

Play Again (trailer)

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

Trending Articles

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Russell Means

Defiance in the Face of Oppression - Iranian Artist Atena Farghadani Defends the Right to Draw

Gavin Aung Than

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

David Cain

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Miki Kashtan

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

Panic Volkushka

Globalization Makes No Sense

Chris Agnos

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

Tim Hjersted

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Jan Hunt

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

Melody Walford

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

Prefigurology

Our Mentor: Thich Nhat Hanh

The Four Mantras of True Presence

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

We Need a Revolution; It Starts with Falling in Love with Earth

Thich Nhat Hanh: Understanding is the Key To Creating a World Without Enemies

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Four Qualities of True Love

True Justice Should Have Compassion in It

Thich Nhat Hanh On Seeing Ourselves In All Beings and All Beings In Us

Do You Have Time to Love?

Most Watched Documentaries

PROPAGANDA (2012)

116,353 views

Miss Representation (2011) ($2)

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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Subconscious War (2011)

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Mark Corske's Engines of Domination (2014)

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Before the Flood (2016) ($4)

Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)

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2012: Time For Change (2010)

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Forks Over Knives (2011) ($4)

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Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003) ($5)

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The Economics of Happiness

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

How a Land High in the Western Himalayas Can Help Us Understand The Crisis of The Modern World

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

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Resist Globally, Renew Locally

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

Insane Trade!

Our Obsolescent Economy

Trump is a Symptom of Corporate Globalization

Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won't Destroy the Environment

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

How Globalization Fuels Terrorism and Fundamentalism

Thinking Outside the Grid

We Can’t Do It Ourselves: How Individual Change Has Limits That Can Only be Solved Collectively

To Leave or Remain: Dichotomy or Distraction?

Changing Everything Except What Needs Changing: What's Missing From The Renewable Energy Debate

Trump: The Illusion of Change

The Economics of Climate Change

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More Than a Smartphone

7 Billion for Dinner? Here's How to Feed Them

Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in

Occupy Your Brain: The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society

The End of the Corporation?

How to Fix the World

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

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

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

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

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

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

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

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

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

Wanted: Men Who Love

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power

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

Understanding Patriarchy

The White Working-Class Must Name The True Root of Their Problems If They Ever Want to Get Free

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

Education

Schooling the World (2010)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed (2004)

The War on Kids (2009)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2019) ($5)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014) ($6)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

Trending Documentaries

Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)

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Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (2012)

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FLOW: For Love of Water (2008)

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Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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All Is Self (2019)

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The End of Suburbia (2004)

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

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In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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BBC: The Power of Nightmares (2004)

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The Corporation (2003)

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Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

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I Am Fishead (2011)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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The War at Home: Rebellion (2020)

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Our $5+ Patreon Supporters Can Watch These Films for Free

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($6)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($3)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($4)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($6)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($4)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($2)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Videos by Second Thought

Is The State Your Enemy?

The Problem With Hyper-Individualism

The Minimum Wage Debate Explained

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Capitol Riot Explained

America's Prescription Drug Cartel

The CIA is a Terrorist Organization

Why The US Prison System Is The Worst In The Developed World

Censorship and the Future of the Internet

How Ranked Choice Voting Can Save American Politics

Worker Cooperatives: Expanding Democracy In The Workplace

You're Probably Already A Socialist

Are You Really "Free" Under Capitalism?

Is Universal Basic Income The Future?

America's Two-Party Corporate Duopoly

The Blackwater Pardons, PMCs, And US Imperialism

Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures

America's Police Problem: Brutality and Racism

America's Patriotism to Fascism Pipeline

America's Stunted Political Spectrum

Capitalism And The American Pandemic Response

Racist Statues and Revisionist History

Astroturfing: How To Spot A Fake Movement

How Exxon Deceived The World (But Not Their Investors)

Should The US Be Considered A Democracy?

Emergency Powers And Creeping Authoritarianism

America's Unemployment Problem

New Member Submissions

Haiti's Century of US Coups, Invasions & Puppets (2021)

Nicholas Christakis - Our Common Humanity

How Can A Global Conspiracy Work?

Jane Goodall - Pandemic

Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment

The Danger of a Single Story

From North to South (2021)

How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy

Dear Thalia | PBS HAWAIʻI PRESENTS (2021)

The False and Exaggerated Claims Still Being Spread About the Capitol Riot

Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die

Essays from the Heart: Dancing with Beauty (2021) (trailer)

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