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Developing Skills of the Heart
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
Trending Documentaries
Earth Days (2009)
Schooling the World (2010)
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
475 (2013)
The Corporation (2003)
Klamath (2016)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
Earthlings (2005)
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Why Billionaires Want You to Be "Christian" Now (2025)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Dakota 38 (2012)
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
Fairytales of Growth (2020)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
Taken for a Ride: The US History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century (1996)
Culture of Fear (2009)
END:CIV (2011)
Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)
Eating Our Way to Extinction (2021)
Praying for Armageddon (2024)
My Enemy, My Brother (2017)
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? (2012)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Future Suspended (2014)
Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)
13TH (2016)
The Shock Doctrine: How Disaster Capitalism Profits from Crisis (2009)
The Laws of Capitalism (2022)
Water is Love (2024)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Climate Extremes (204)
Human (2015)
We - Arundhati Roy (2006)
The One Percent (2006)
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)
Prime Farmland - FULL FILM - Data Centers - New Carlisle, Indiana - Joy & Gene VanLue (2020)
Living in the Time of Dying (2020)
Israelism (2023)
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)
Dominion (2018)
The End of Poverty (2009)
The New Corporation (2022)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Living With Dying (2022)
Down To Earth (2020)
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
HOME (2009)
The Battle of Chernobyl (2006) ($5)
India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)
It's Revolution or Death (2025)
The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018) ($5)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
The Sacred Science (2011)
Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil (2011)
Sicko (2007)
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
House Music: A Cultural Revolution (2024)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
Salmon Confidential (2013)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Rise of The Ultra-Right in The US (2025)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
The Great Simplification (2022)
All Power to the People! The Black Panther Party & Beyond (1996)
Gather (2020) ($4)
Technocalyps (2006)
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
Iran (Is Not the Problem) (2008)
Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol (2021)
Carnage (2017)
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
PressPausePlay (2011)
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)
Revolution Food (2015)
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet (2009)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Affluenza (1997)
Open to the Public? (2011)
It's Okay to Panic (2020)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Imprint (2023)
Patron Exlusive Films
Noam Chomsky
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias
Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization
4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together
Thomas Berry: The New Story
We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion
Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics
Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope
Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)
The Confederation as the Commune of Communes
Powerdown: Let's Talk About It
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration
The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (trailer)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Four Foundations of True Liberty
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)
Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative
Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The End of the Corporation?
The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility
3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture
Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis
Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism
Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
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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...
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...
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
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...
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...
Revolution Food (2015)
71 min - Revolution: Food is all about the positive changes taking root in our modern food system. It focuses on real farmers who are growing, raising real food and the consumers who are demanding it.
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.
An Introduction to Integral: A Federated, Post-Monetary Cooperative Economy
Peter Joseph - In this article, Peter Joseph presents Integral—a cooperative economy designed to replace both markets and top-down state control with an architecture of open design, time-based reciprocity, and democratic coordination, starting with small mutual-aid...
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.
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...
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...
Only the Iranian People Should Determine Their Nation's Future
C.J. Polychroniou - It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.
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.
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