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“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

- Lilla Watson, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator from Queensland, Australia.

There Is No One Right Way to Live | The Ideas of Daniel Quinn

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

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

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

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

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

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

Daniel Quinn: The New Renaissance

The Culture of Maximum Harm

Our Religions: Are they the Religions of Humanity Itself?

When a Whole Generation of Youth "Feels Cheated," That's Something Worth Paying Attention To

The River of Vision: "If the World is Saved it Won't be Saved by Old Minds with New Programs."

The River of Vision - On the Works of Daniel Quinn, Author of Ishmael

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

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Manifestos!

Capitalism

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

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

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

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

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) (trailer)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

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

Panic Volkushka

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

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

War Is Always Justified

Charles Eisenstein

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

David Cain

Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Daniel Quinn

Understanding Patriarchy

bell hooks

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Teri Lynn

A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality

Sandew Hira

One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back

Dan Mahle

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

Carol Black

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Chris Hedges

The Demoralized Mind

John Schumaker

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Miki Kashtan

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

George Lakey

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

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

27 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Tim Hjersted

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

Tim Hjersted

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

Tim Hjersted

Transition Documentaries

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

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

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

The Transition

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

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016) ($3)

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

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

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

How the "Mainstream" Media Misleads

5 Short Films, 5 Profound Lessons in Media Literacy

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

Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message

Stuart Hall: Race, Gender, Class: The Politics of News

Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News

How to Read the Signs in the News

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

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

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: Change the Story, Change the World (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)

#MeToo & Liberation For All

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

Samantha Bee Weighs in on Aziz Ansari and the #MeToo Backlash and It's Very On Point

How The Media Has Shaped Your Negative Perception of Feminism

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)

Trending Documentaries

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The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)

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From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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Addicted to Plastic (2008)

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Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

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The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)

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Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

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AWAKE: A Dream From Standing Rock (2017)

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The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)

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South of The Border (2010)

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

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Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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

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

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The Wild: How Do You Save What You Love? (2020)

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Dear Lebanon

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

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Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies

To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War on Gaza: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

The Story That's Destroying the World

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology

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

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

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

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

Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

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

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

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

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

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

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities

Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism

What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget

Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About

We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

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

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Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019) ($5)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011) ($5)

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

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

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021) ($5)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014) ($5)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007) ($5)

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

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997) ($5)

Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997) ($5)

Redefining Prosperity (2018) ($5)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001) ($5)

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Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003) ($5)

GIFT (2018) ($5)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019) ($5)

Blood and Oil (2008) ($5)

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

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

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

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

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

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

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

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

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

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

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

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008) ($5)

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

Israel & Palestine Coverage

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

On Israel-Gaza & the Corrupting Media Dynamic of “Audience Capture” | Glenn Greenwald

I Watched The Hamas Massacre Film. Here's My Thoughts. | Owen Jones

Pope Calls Israeli Army Terrorists | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Don't Turn Away: This Video Shows the Reality of Israel's War on Gaza

The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

I’m Jewish. I Want a Ceasefire in Gaza. | Dave Zirin

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

"Self-Hating Jew" Explains Why Israel Has No Right...

Dr. Gabor Mate: This Is Genocide

Yes, Israel is an Apartheid State. Perhaps an Analogy Will Be Useful Here.

Will Lebanon Go to War to Save Gaza? w/ Rania Khalek & Abby Martin

Piers Morgan is Wrong

Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

Tory MP Threatens To Prosecute UK Govt Over Israeli War Crimes

Amnesty International Finds "Damning Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 6,500

Hamas — Israel’s Useful Enemy

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Israel’s Culture of Deceit

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

The Palestinian Horror Story The Media Hides From You

Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas (2018)

Israel & The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Kyle REACTS To Horrifying Deranged Israel & Palestine Takes | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel

Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel

Films We're Hosting for Free, In The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

Together We Grow (2022)

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Fall and Winter (2013)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

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

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

New Member Submissions

I'm a Rhino (2023) (2023)

The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza

Charles Eisenstein: Life is a Gift

War Is Always Justified

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The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

HeadSpin! Rewrite the Rules of the Money Game (2023)

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