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On Demand Films Now Streaming For Free

InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Fall and Winter (2013)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Denial: The First Step to Acceptance (2016)

Can You See It?

Can You See It ? | Extinction Rebellion France

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

The Great Pause: Normal *Was* The Crisis

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day

This Is What Every Young Girl Can Expect to be Bombarded with for a Lifetime, Condensed Into 1 Min

A Letter from the Virus: #LISTEN

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Gabor Maté: Why Our Culture Makes So Many Of Us Unhappy

Alan Watts: What is Wrong With Our Culture

The One Simple Truth about Our Existence That Everyone Needs to Know

The Lie We Live

The High Price of Materialism

This Is The World As It Is

It's The Greatest Drama of All Time and You Just Might Be Missing It

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

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: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($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)

Thich Nhat Hanh: One of Our Greatest Inspirations and Mentors

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?

Inspiring Short Films

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

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Trending Articles

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments (And How to Refute Them)

Michael E Sparks

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

Deep Ecology Hub

Survival Of The Nicest? A Theory Of Our Origins Says Cooperation-Not Competition-Is Instinctive

Eric Michael Johnson

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

Gavin Aung Than

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Bill Blunden

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

Daniel Quinn

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

The Pimps of War | Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges

Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education

Peter Gray, Ph.D.

Systemic Racism

13TH (2016)

The History of Structural Racism in Kansas City

Putting Racism on the Table: john a. powell on Structural Racism

I Am Not Your Negro (2017) ($4)

Systemic Racism: Is That Really a Thing?

Ending Racism by Creating a Society Where Humiliation is Replaced by Empathy, Love, Generosity and Mutual-Recognition

The Answer to Police Violence Is Not 'Reform'. It's Defunding. Here's Why.

Vicious Abstraction and Systemic Racism: The Violence of False Representation and Coded Language

Why Black Lives Matter Won't Go Away: a Primer on Systemic Racism in America

Racism Is About Power, Not Unpleasant Sentiments

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

Akala and Frankie Boyle Discuss Structural Racism in Britain

The Racism of Mass Incarceration, Visualized

The Racism of the US Criminal Justice System in 10 Charts

The Modern Racist Paradigm (2007)

Thandeka: Why Some Anti-Racist Programs Will Fail and Others Will Succeed

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

The Shocking, True History of Race Baiting, From the 17th Century to the Present Day

Mean, Kind or Non: Which Type of Racist Are You?

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

The New 'Black Codes'

Videos that Explain Things

How the Rich Keep Us Poor

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

How Romanticism Ruined Love

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Electronics

Why Engagement Rings Are A Scam. Here Are The Facts.

The Difference Between Empathy and Sympathy

The Story of Cosmetics

The Story of Change

Patriotism vs Nationalism: Do You Know the Difference?

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

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

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

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

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)

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

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

Watch On Netflix

The Minimalists: Less Is Now (2021) (trailer)

My Octopus Teacher (2020) (trailer)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

The Social Dilemma (2020) (trailer)

Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015) (trailer)

The Great Hack (2019) (trailer)

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (2017) (trailer)

Shareable Free Documentaries

The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes (2015)

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

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

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

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

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

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

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

Trending Documentaries

Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)

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Sicko (2007)

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

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The Corporation (2003)

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Schooling the World (2010)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

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A Cloud Never Dies | Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (2022)

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

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Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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Beware Of Images (2016)

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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train (2004)

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

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MILKED: White Lies In Dairy Land (2022)

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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)

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America's War On Abortion (2020)

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Unseen Tears (2009)

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Money & Life (2013)

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Slavery by Another Name (2012)

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TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017) ($5)

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Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013) ($5)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020) ($5)

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

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)

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

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)

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

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)

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

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

Watch The New Corporation for Free - Now Until the End of May

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The Corporation (2003)

New Member Submissions

Democracy and Ecology as Forces of Change: Interview With Yavor Tarinski

Rite of Passage (2022)

"The Race to Alaska" Tests the Body, Mind and Boat

By the Way, Woody Allen Is Innocent (2020)

A Monetary Reset Where the Rich Don’t Own Everything

The Assange Case Changes Everything

Hunter Biden Laptop | Russian Disinfo Disinfo

Weapons 4 Ukraine (& Military Industrial Complex)

LAB LEAK "CONSPIRACY THEORY" MASHUP

Amish Farmer Faces $250K Fine, Jail Time and Losing His Sustainable Farm for Processing His Own Meat

Media Are Now Whitewashing Nazis They Had Previously Condemned

The Art of Slowing Down Time (2022)

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Watch THE NEW CORPORATION for FREE online during Films For Action's community screening event, going on now till the end of May.

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