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Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine & Feminine

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig

Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender

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

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life

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

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

Sustainable Human

How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot

A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems

How Whales Change Climate | George Monbiot

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land | Harvey Tweats

What Kids Need Most | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Opposite Of Utopia | Jeremy Rifkin

The Goal of Life is Not to Survive It | Charles Eisenstein

You Are Alive For A Reason | Clare Dubois

Why Do We Make Life So Hard? | Jon Jondai

How Devils Heal Forests | Rob Brewster

The Truth About Depression | Johann Hari

The Politics Of Belonging | George Monbiot

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us (with Gabor Maté)

What Comes After Capitalism? (with Yanis Varoufakis)

Redefining Family | Guruju Sri Vast

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

The Most Brilliant Heist In History | Wendell Berry

The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income | Guy Standing

The Myth Of Human Nature | Gabor Mate

A New Approach To Solving Problems | Charles Eisenstein

Reimagining Investment for the Whole Human

Earth Democracy

A Sustainable Death

The Story of the Chinese Farmer

We Societies

More Free Documentaries

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

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

Down To Earth (2020)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

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

Tears in the Bayou - The Streets of Houston (2017)

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

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

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

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Conversation Starters for Teachers & Students

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

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

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

The Demoralized Mind

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

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

School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)

6 Toxic Relationship Habits Most People Think Are Normal

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

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

The Corporation (2003)

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

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

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System

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

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not to End the War or Save Lives.

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

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

Ecovillages: Experiments in New and Ancient Ways of Living

The Village of Lovers (2024) (trailer)

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

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village

230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 6: Ecovillages & Networks for New Farmers

Saving Our Ecovillage (2020)

17 Days In Community: A Manifestation of Love (2014)

This Community Is Transforming a Blighted Neighborhood Into a Vibrant Lab of Possibilities

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

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

Awakening the Village Heart and Mind

Into Unity: A Journey into Ecovillage Living

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

Budrus: It Takes a Village to Unite the Most Divided People on Earth (2009)

Tamera: An Ecovillage for a New Humanity (2018)

Documentaries by Scott Noble

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

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

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

Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)

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

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

Free Indie Documentaries

Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)

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

Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)

Voices of the Grandmothers (2021)

The Age of Disconnection (2018)

Imprint (2023)

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

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Trending Articles

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

Russell Means

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

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

The "No Illusions" Guide to Elections: Vote to Choose Your Opponent, Then Organize!

Tim Hjersted

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

Panic Volkushka

Four Kinds of Dystopia

Darren Allen

The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use Change the World

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

David Cain

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

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

George Lakey

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

Yasha Levine

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

Michael E Sparks

What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic

Asam Ahmad

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Shareable

Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era

Birgitta Jonsdottir

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

Wisdom Pills

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

This Facebook Comment About the UK Election Is Going Viral

Chris Renwick

How the "15 Minute City" Conspiracy Theory Fooled People Into Fighting for the Status Quo

Tim Hjersted

Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan: Exiting the Either/Or Trap - Decision Making Beyond Consensus and Command / Control

#MeToo and Liberation for All

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Core Nonviolence Commitments

Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

Why Patriarchy Is Not About Men

Imperialism

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire

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

Schooling the World (2010)

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

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

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

Obey (2013)

War By Other Means (1992)

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (2020)

US Empire Exploits COVID-19 For More War

Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

Conversations about the Future of Racial Identity

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

We Can’t Just Oppose Racism: We Must Transcend Race

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

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

The Theory of White Privilege – Why Racism Is Not a Privilege, but an Injustice

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

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

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

We Are Not Black

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

Is it Time to Forge a New Narrative about Race?

Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action

The Corporation (2003)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

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

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

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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

Earthlings (2005)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Epic Documentaries

Human (2015)

Earthlings (2005)

The Corporation (2003)

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

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

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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

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

HOME (2009)

This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)

Trending Documentaries

Schooling the World (2010)

1641 mins watched today

Fairytales of Growth (2020)

887 mins watched today

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

504 mins watched today

Gasland (2010)

332 mins watched today

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

252 mins watched today

The Corporation (2003)

204 mins watched today

The Yes Men: Changing the World One Prank at a Time (2004)

195 mins watched today

9/11: Decade of Deception (2015)

191 mins watched today

Sicko (2007)

169 mins watched today

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

145 mins watched today

Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk (2006)

92 mins watched today

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

84 mins watched today

Electronic Awakening (2012)

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South of The Border (2010)

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9/11: Press for Truth (2006)

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The Road to Guantanamo

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Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)

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The One Percent (2006)

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The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

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Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death (2024)

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New Member Submissions

The Cautious Case for Harris

Iranian Prof. Ends Piers Morgan's Career: Heated Israel-Palestine Debate

Israel Explodes In Protest As 6 Hostages Found Dead | The Kyle Kulinski Show

“You’re Not Serious”: AOC Roasts Jill Stein & Green Party

What the News Won't Tell You about Climate Change | Hannah Ritchie, PhD

American Citizen Shot by the IDF Calls on Biden to Sanction Israel

Abandon Harris: Why Democrats Must Be Defeated Over Gaza w/ Dr. Hassan Abdel Salam

Biden's Cruel and Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

James Talarico Delivers POWERFUL Sermon Against Christian Nationalism

Why Kamala Harris Should Choose Tim Walz (NOT Josh Shapiro) as Her Running Mate

Elon Musk Is Spreading Centuries-Old Racist Pseudo-Science

Schoolhouse Rock's "Elbow Room" Interrupted (2024)

Jarawa - We are Humanity

Here’s What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Venezuelan Election

Israelis Riot In Support Of Torture

THIS Guy Should Be Kamala Harris' VP Pick

‘THEY SCREAM SOCIALISM’: Tim Walz DISMANTLES Right-Wing Hacks | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Right to Housing and Its Relation to Democracy

Praying for Armageddon (2024)

Donald Trump is NOT a 'Threat to the Deep State'. Here Is His Warmongering Record.

The Last Thing This Country Needed

" Wild blues " Across Generations (2023)

Why you should vote in the EU Election 2024

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

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