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Trending Documentaries

HyperNormalisation (2016)

Israelism (2023)

The Settlers (2016)

Schooling the World (2010)

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

The War You Don't See (2010)

Investigating War Crimes in Gaza I Al Jazeera (2024)

No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)

Beware Of Images (2016)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)

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

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

13TH (2016)

Earthlings (2005)

Under the Dome: Investigating China’s Smog (2015)

The End of Poverty (2009)

Grasp The Nettle (2013)

Guardians of the Earth: A Film about the Paris Agreement (2017)

For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024) ($4)

Water is Love (2024)

Sicko (2007)

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

The Free Voice of Labor: Jewish Anarchists (1980)

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

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

Coconut Revolution: "The world's first successful eco-revolution."

Patron Exlusive Films

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

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

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Affluenza (1997)

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

This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)

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

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

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

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

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

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

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

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

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

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

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

We Are Many (2020)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

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

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

Blood and Oil (2008)

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

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

The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)

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

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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

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

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

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

Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal (2001)

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

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

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

The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century (1997)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

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

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

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

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Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Israelism (2023)

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)

With God on Our Side (2010)

Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)

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

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

Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

The Israeli Lobby (2007)

The Zionist Story (2009)

Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth (2009)

Life in Occupied Palestine (trailer)

Media Literacy

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

Beware Of Images (2016)

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

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Capitalism And Monopolies: How Five Companies Control All US Media

The Social Dilemma (trailer)

Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model of News: An In-Depth Explanation

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Shopping for Freedom: Escape from the Cult of Consumerism (2019)

The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose – How Films, Series and Video Games Reveal What Really Drives Us

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

Incredible Animation Summarises Noam Chomsky's 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

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

Propaganda and The Engineering of Consent for Empire with Mark Crispin Miller

Noam Chomsky: How the Mass Media Manufactures Consent

The Creativity Delusion: There is no Genius

Corporate Jargon - Lying by Obscurity, Obscuring to Hide Corruption

How Marlboro Changed Advertising Forever

Digital Hygiene: How We Might've F--ked Our Attention Spans

Donald Trump: The Sitcom Misogynist

The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory

Stalking for Love

Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die

How the Media's Weapons Fetish Primes Us for War

The Miseducation of Dylann Roof

The Ugly Truth in Beauty Magazines

The News Is Center Right

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Tim Hjersted

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The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

David Cain

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect

Tim Hjersted

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

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

Panic Volkushka

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

The Comprehensive Activist Guide to Dismantling Neoliberalism

Coping With Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the White House

N Ziehl

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012

Tim Hjersted

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Reclaiming Youth International

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Ikigai - Finding Your Reason for Being

Chip Richards

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

Russell Means

Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming

Films For Action

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

Yasha Levine

I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell.

Mohammed Hureini

American Concentration Camps

Chris Hedges

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

Tim Hjersted

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

Tim Hjersted

Why French Kids Don't have ADHD

Marilyn Wedge

The Unicorn Ally

Hannah Wilder

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

Daniel Quinn

How American Oligarchs Created the Concept of Race to Divide and Conquer the Poor

Courtland Milloy

Free Indie Documentaries

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

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

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Reading Library

10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

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

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

American Concentration Camps

Toward a Sacred Cosmology of Belonging: to Heal the World, We Don't Need Shame or Blame, We Need to Remember and Reconnect

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

How a Progressive Government Would End the War in Ukraine

Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy

We're Seeing the Beginnings of Mass Noncompliance

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

Yes. It's a Genocide - the Evidence Is Overwhelming

Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

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

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

Doubling Down on Regeneration

Why We Need a Workers' Bill of Rights in the Age of Automation

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

The Deportation-Industrial Complex Is the New War on Drugs—And It's Just as Corrupt

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Bitter Lake (2015)

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97% Owned (2012)

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The Island of All Together

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The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

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The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

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The Superior Human? (2012)

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A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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Disruption (2014)

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Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

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Park Avenue: Money, Power And The American Dream (2012)

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

The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

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The 5 Stages of Climate Change Grief w/ Bill Nye and Arnold Schwarzenegger ($2)

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The Weather Underground (2002)

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South of The Border (2010)

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United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

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Why We Fight (2005) ($4)

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Occupied Cascadia (2012)

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New Member Submissions

Empire With Decorum: the Complicity of Cory Booker and the Crisis of the Democratic Party

The Eternal Song (trailer)

Yanis Varoufakis Explains How Tech Lords Enslaved Humanity

What Have We Become? | Theo Von

Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)

A Radical Guide to Reality

Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems

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'CHALK. NATURE. WILL. - A Story from the Duars

System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)

I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell.

Is It Too Late for Us to Slow Climate Warming? | Hannah Ritchie, PhD

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

Trump & Deportations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The story of the Holocaust survivor who leads pro-Palestine protests | Stephen Kapos| UNAPOLOGETIC |

The Divided Brain (2019)

No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)

How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar

The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity

What If You Didn’t Need a Paycheck to Live? A Short Introduction to the People's Library

“Living In This Ecovillage Costs $200 per Month (All Inclusive)”

The Self-Improvement Lie

The Privatization Of Everything | How America Sold Itself Out

100 Days of Chaos and Greed

We Talked To Trump Voters. They Have A Warning For Him. | Ft. John Russell

Is War on China Coming? The US Military Is Seriously Preparing

5 Solarpunk Communities That Will Bring You Hope

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

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