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Most Watched Documentaries

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)

49,036 views

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

22,326 views

Plastic Planet (2009)

28,619 views

Sicko (2007)

181,985 views

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

123,538 views

The Age of Stupid (2009)

113,214 views

Gasland Part II (2013)

22,752 views

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

59,722 views

Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)

64,093 views

Unveiled & Lifted (2013)

28,247 views

Confessions of an Undercover Cop (2011)

25,096 views

Connected: A Film for Change (2013)

21,443 views

A River of Waste: The Hazardous Truth About Factory Farms (2009)

23,491 views

Orwell Rolls In His Grave (2003)

27,027 views

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

31,697 views

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

22,564 views

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

22,754 views

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

76,891 views

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

43,191 views

Back to Eden: Simple Sustainable Solutions (2011)

23,766 views

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

69,440 views

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

150,608 views

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

46,214 views

PLANETARY (2015)

39,038 views

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)

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: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)

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

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016) (trailer)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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

Voices of Transition (2012)

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Localization: a Strategic Alternative to Globalized Authoritarianism

Fall and Winter (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016) (trailer)

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

The Corporation (2003)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

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

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)

Tamera: The Village of Lovers

The Village of Lovers (2025)

Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity (2018)

Tamera - Taste of a New Culture

Regenerative Response to Crisis: Blueprint Meeting at Tamera August 2015

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

Defend the Sacred - What Is Sacred Activism?

One Day in Tamera (2016)

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Emotional Literacy

The Myth of Positivity: Why Your Pain Holds a Mighty Purpose

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Core Nonviolence Commitments

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

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

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

The Neurochemistry Of Empathy, Explained With Claymation

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Let Yourself Grieve

How Cynicism Masks Pain

No, You Don't Have to Admit You're Wrong to Apologize (And Other Apology Myths Debunked)

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

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are

Join the Empathy Revolution!

The Steps Toward Self Empowerment

Dealing With Painful Emotions

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises

Brené Brown on How to Reckon with Emotion and Change Your Narrative

Why Are so Many Adults Today Haunted by Trauma?

11 Traits of People With High Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Why It's Important, Why We Should Nurture It in Our Kids

Healing Our Collective Trauma: The Key to Creating a Society Based on Trust Rather Than Fear

Women Are Better at Expressing Emotions, Right? Why It's Not That Simple

If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It

Thich Nhat Hanh on Loosening the Knots of Anger

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

What Is Emotional Intelligence and Why is it Important?

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma

Our Culture's Unhealthy Ideas Surrounding Masculinity Is Killing Men: On The Roots of Men and Trauma

Self-Esteem Might Boost Our Egos, But Self-Compassion Opens Our Hearts

Control is a Trap

The Demoralized Mind

The Great Grief: How to Cope With Losing Our World

The Important Difference Between Love and Being Loved

How Mindfulness Empowers Us

"I Love Being a Woman" - What Will It Take to Create a World Where Every Woman Can Say This?

The Root Cause of Addiction

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

What is the Meaning of Death? This Man Has Some Words to Share with You.

Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

Trending Articles

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

Stephen Mitchell

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

George Lakey

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

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Defeat the Right in Three Minutes: A Practical Guide to Understanding Conservative Politics

Conceptual Guerilla

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking

Maria Popova

10 Life Hacks to Help You Cut Plastic Out of the Picture

Kate Good

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Rabbi Michael Lerner

Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party

Alan Minsky

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

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93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

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

David Cain

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Russell Means

Why French Kids Don't have ADHD

Marilyn Wedge

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

Tim Hjersted

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 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

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

Wisdom Pills

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

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

Daniel Quinn

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

Abby Brockman

“F*ck You, I Like Guns.”

Aging Millennial Engineer

There Is a Moderate Republican in This Race, but She's Running as a Democrat

Tony Brasunas

Activist Philosophy & Reflection

Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists

“Basic Training” for Spiritual Warriors

How to Sustain Your Activism: What Grace Lee Boggs Would Have Taught Us

Not All Politics Is Identity Politics

20 Principles for Successful Community Organizing

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

The Trifecta of Civil Resistance: Unity, Planning, Discipline

Guidelines for Alliance-Building: Working Assumptions for Winning Allies and Being an Effective Ally

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

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

No Impact Man's Guide to Activism

Hey Progressives, Can We Stop Using the Tools of Social Justice to Tear One Another Down?

Towards a Perspective on Eliminating Racism: 12 Working Assumptions

9 Ways We Can Make Social Justice Movements Less Elitist and More Accessible

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Polarization Trap

How to Disagree

Blocking Awareness and Defriending Our Way Into Group Think

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

How To (Not) Change Minds On The Internet

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

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

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

The Trap of Righteousness

How to Resist From a Place of Love: Self-Care for the Long Haul

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed

Are You Tired of the Social Justice Outrage Machine?

Why Allies Are Welcome to Criticise Social Movements

The Problem With Judgement

Fighting with Non-Violence | Scilla Elworthy

5 Reasons to Build a Network of Small Groups, Rather Than a Mass Movement of Individuals

Documentaries by Peter Charles Downey

Deep Ecology (2025)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

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

Surviving Earth (2014)

Dozer's Pet Diesel (2022)

Climate Change Documentaries

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

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

The Troublemaker: How Extinction Rebellion Became A Global Climate Movement (2020)

Kiss the Ground (2020) (trailer)

A Climate Of Change (2014)

The Soil Solution To Climate Change (2013)

Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disruption (2014)

Do the Math (2013)

Chasing Ice (2012) (trailer)

A Burning Question: Propaganda & The Denial Of Climate Change (2012) (trailer)

Tomorrow's Power (2019)

The Carbon Rush (2019) (trailer)

Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)

Climate of Doubt (2012)

Years of Living Dangerously (2014)

Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (2011)

How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can't Change (2016)

2040: Join The Regeneration (2020)

Out Of Balance: ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change (2007)

The Wisdom To Survive: Climate Change, Capitalism & Community (trailer)

Before the Flood (2016)

The Climate Changers (2016)

Greedy Lying Bastards (2013) (trailer)

The Island President (2011) (trailer)

Long Videos for Listening to While You Move

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

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

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

Family Camp: Documentary on Living Nonviolent Communication (2016)

Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Peter Joseph: Can We Solve the Problems Created by the Market Economy While Retaining the Market?

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

Reading Library

Now Is the Time for Progressives to Take Over the Democratic Party

Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World

All-Aboard for Free Public Transport

Why People Hate Socialism—And What It Actually Is

Radical Ecological Democracy: More Reflections From the South on Degrowth

A Manifesto Against For-Profit Health Insurance Companies

50 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

The Real "Climate Scam" Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It

Revenge of the Deplorables?

UN Report Warns of Escalating Genocide in Gaza

The Movement We Need

13 Principles for a Welcoming Movement

The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations

This Post-Election Take Is Going Viral for the Best Possible Reason

A Progressive Call to Arms: Laboratories of Democracy

Doubling Down: the Military, Big Bankers and Big Oil Are Not in Climate Denial, They Are in Control and Plan to Keep It That Way.

Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are so Endlessly Terrible

Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World

The Politics of Cultural Despair

10 Ways to Be Prepared and Grounded Now That Trump Has Won

Voting Like a Radical and Honoring the Complexities of Organizing for Justice

Vote for Our Movements, Not Politicians: a Strategic Guide to Elections, Where Activism Matters Most

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