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New Documentaries

Reflection: A Walk with Water (2022) ($5)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021) ($4)

The Ground Between Us (2020) ($4)

No Small Matter (2019) ($4)

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

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

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

Our Consumer Society (2022)

Living for 32 (Mass-Shooting Documentary) (2010)

The Blue-Gieman & US (2022) ($5)

Redefining Prosperity (2018) ($5)

Immoral Code (2022)

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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)

The Big Picture

Fall and Winter (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Money & Life (2013)

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

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

The Corporation (2003)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

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)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

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

Unity (2015) ($13)

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

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

PLANETARY (2015) ($1)

How Conspiracy-Based Activism Leads Us Astray, Making Us Ineffective Agents for Change

Against Conspiracy Theories - Why Our Activism Must Be Based in Reality

Beneath Conspiracy Theories, the Class War

Trump, QAnon and The Return of Magic (2020)

Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones' War on Your Mind

New World Order or Business as Usual? -- an Open Letter to Supporters of Infowars and Alex Jones

The Emergent Conspiracy of Culture: How the Ruling Class Is Held Captive to a Toxic Cultural Story Like the Rest of Us

Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right

The Conspiracy Myth

How to Overthrow the Illuminati

The Role of Anti-Establishment "Conspiracy Theories"

Synchronicity, Myth, and the New World Order

There Is No "They"

Why We Cling to Conspiracies in Times of Crisis

Agenda 21: the UN, Sustainability and Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! (A Letter for the Hopeless)

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

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

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

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Why Louis Freeh Should Be Investigated For 9/11

Kevin R. Ryan

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

Conceptual Guerilla

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

Kevin A. Carson

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

Films For Action

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

Wisdom Pills

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

Panic Volkushka

Maine Town Becomes First to Declare Food Sovereignty

Ethan A. Huff

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

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

Gavin Aung Than

How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt

Bill Blunden

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal

Joe Martino

"You Grow Up Wanting to Be Luke Skywalker, Then Realize You've Become a Stormtrooper for the Empire"

Garret

Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi (2019) ($5)

Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

Forbidden Fruit: An Excerpt from the Feature Documentary Fantastic Fungi

Did Mushrooms Play a Role in the Evolution of Human Consciousness? - Paul Stamets

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan

Mushrooms as Spiritual Teachers, A Brief History

Michael Pollan | Dissolving the Default Mode Network

Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx

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 (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)

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The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

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

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

PROPAGANDA (2012)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Money & Life (2013)

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

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

Double Down News

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight

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 (2012)

PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)

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

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The Power Principle: Corporate Empire and the Rise of the National Security State (2012)

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InterReflections, by Peter Joseph (2020)

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9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2010)

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

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Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)

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

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The Yes Men: Changing the World One Prank at a Time (2003)

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

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2020) (US only)

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The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)

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Artifishal: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon (2019)

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Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

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

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

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

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

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

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

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

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

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

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

Films about Localization - the Solution to Globalization and Destructive, Infinite-Growth Economics

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

The Movement for Localization Is Growing Rapidly, Worldwide

LOCAL: A Story Of Hope

World Localization Day 2020 (Short Version) Be Part of this Inspirational Movement for Change!

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Locally Abundant (2012)

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: An Overview of Localization

New Member Submissions

"The Best Cure for the Body Is a Quiet Mind."

Ukraine: Questions for the US Anti-War Movement w/ Abby Martin & Brian Becker

‘This is a war of propaganda’: John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange

NATO: the Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet | Chris Hedges

What Green Can Be - 2020 Edit (2020)

'Not a Justification but a Provocation': Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia-Ukraine War

Reinventing Progress: How to Move Beyond Technocracy

Abby Martin’s Speech on US Sanctions & Economic Gangsterism

Lakota Human Remains Stolen from US Army Massacre Hoarded by Private Museum (2022)

Oliver Stone & Abby Martin: Down the JFK Rabbit Hole

Central Bank Digital Currencies And the Social Nature of Money

Rize. (2022)

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