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Trending Documentaries

HyperNormalisation (2016)

Earthlings (2005)

Stare Into The Lights My Pretties (2017)

The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

Israelism (2023)

Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)

The Globalisation Tapes (2003)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)

A Farm For The Future (2008)

Technocalyps (2006)

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

Boomerang: Empire and Britain's Economy (2023)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)

Sicko (2007)

Beware Of Images (2016)

In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)

The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)

Churning the Earth (2024)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The Corporation (2003)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

Who Rules America? (2012)

Schooling the World (2010)

War By Other Means (1992)

D’autres Mondes (Other Worlds) (2004)

The Fuck-it Point (2012)

Water is Love (2024)

Oh Canada - Our Bought & Sold Out Land (2009)

The True Story of Che Guevara

Possum Living (1980)

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

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia (2011) ($2)

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

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

Patron Exlusive Films

To The Ends of the Earth (2016)

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

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

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)

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

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

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

Advertising & The End of The World (1997)

The Great Disconnect (2020)

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

Tomorrow's Children (2001)

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

We Are Many (2020)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)

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

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

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

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

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

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

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

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

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)

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

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

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

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

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

Paradise with Side Effects (2004)

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

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

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

Blood and Oil (2008)

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

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

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)

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

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)

Redefining Prosperity (2018)

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

Affluenza (1997)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014)

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

The Nature of Cities (2010)

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

Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)

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

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

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Permaculture

How to Save the World (trailer)

Eat the Suburbs: Gardening for the End of the Oil Age

Bullock Brothers Homestead - A 25-Year Permaculture Project

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

This Toe-Tapping Permaculture Jamboree Will Make You Want to Obtain a Yield!

Greening the Desert

Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields

Regreening the Desert with John D. Liu (2012)

Edible City: Grow the Revolution (trailer)

The Modern Eco Village | BedZED

Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)

Introduction To Permaculture Design by Geoff Lawton (trailer)

Another Life Is Possible: A Homage to Catalonia II (2010)

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

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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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Next Net

Douglas Rushkoff

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

Stephen Mitchell

End Poverty and Create Wealth with Public Banks

Noam Chomsky: What Links ISIS to World War 1, Gaza and Nuclear Catastrophe

Noam Chomsky

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A New Ideal: Why We Need to Reject Being "Realistic" About the Status Quo and Be Idealists

A Charter for Democracy

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Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

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

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

We Are All Indigenous

The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us

European Paganism and Christianization

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The Core of the Indigenous Worldview

“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

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

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (trailer)

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?

The Other Way of Knowing

Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Recovering Our Sense of Place, Reconnecting with Pachamama

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Why Israel REALLY Attacked Iran

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What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?

Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant)

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What REALLY Happened At Glastonbury

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How Democracy Can Fail: Lessons From Germany

The Truth About Migrant Labor and America’s Economy | Heather Cox Richardson

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Artificial Creativity: Has AI Stolen Our Creative Soul?

Chris Hedges: Trump's Useful Idiots

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The Death Toll of Capitalism (and the 100 Million Lie)

What Is Zionism?

HasanAbi and Chris Hedges Discuss The Descent into Fascism

Chris Hedges: The Last Days of Gaza

JK Rowling’s SILENCE On Gaza’s Murdered Women

Israel's OWN LAWYER Admits Grave War Crimes

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The Silence of the Pandas - What the WWF Isn’t Saying (2011)

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Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

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Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)

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The Weather Underground (2002)

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The Lottery of Birth (2013)

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The Superior Human? (2012)

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

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Baraka (1992) ($3)

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The Corporation (2003)

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

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A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

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The Culture High (2014)

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Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

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American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)

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Fall and Winter (2013)

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Reading Library

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

Stop Blaming Immigrants. Start Blaming the Real Criminals.

War Deja Vu

Localization Action Guide: 137 Actions to Resist and Renew

The Persecution of Francesca Albanese

How the Fantasy of Trump as an Anti-Establishment Rebel Protects the Status Quo

The Real Sheepdogs of the Left

Gaza’s Hunger Games

American Concentration Camps

Doubling Down on Regeneration

Profiting From Genocide

Universal Basic Income: Answering the Common Objections

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

Never Forget? Never Forgive? Never Again?

Trump, Epstein and the Deep State

10 Lessons for Stronger Movements

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

The Rule of Idiots

Israel's Strike on Iran Was Terrorism. No More Excuses. We Must Demand an Arms Embargo Now.

Dems, Do the Right Thing and Stop Funding Genocide

Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History

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

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

Open Reality: Meeting the Polycrisis Together With All Beings

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