What is breaking knowledge you ask? It may be cutting edge or it may be ancient. It may be a video or article published yesterday or something from 20 years ago. Either way, it's knowledge that everyone needs to know. It's those essential perspectives that could create a massive sea change in our cultural awareness, and inspire the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible. Most of all - breaking knowledge is the idea whose time has come.
The media has an incredible power to convey breaking news stories to millions of people when it's important enough. We want to use this power of the media to awaken millions to the potential of powerful ideas.
As an example of the kind of breaking knowledge we're talking about, below are 10 of our all-time favorite documentaries. These films are bursting with the big meta-memes of our time - the kind of information and perspective that could truly transform the world if it was to become common knowledge.
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The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the modern business corporation and the increasing role...
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65 min ·
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction...
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85 min ·
Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide...
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2 min ·
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist...
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66 min ·
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
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2 min ·
DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.
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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the...
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Class Dismissed provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at the myths that reduce the complexity of history into simple soundbites, and the information that never seems to make it onto the textbook pages...
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66 min ·
This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of communities printing their own money, growing food...
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86 min ·
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
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60 min ·
Never before in history have so many people relied on so few for the basic essentials of life.
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65 min ·
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that is recreating our world from the inside out.
Weaving together insights and findings...
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Of course, these films only scratch the surface. Over the years, we've cataloged over
500 quality documentaries, indexed into 40 subjects and sortable by most viewed, top rated and recently added.
When you don't have time to watch a full documentary, we've also cataloged thousands of
shorter films and
videos to absorb a little knowledge in those smaller spaces throughout the day.
And despite our overall focus on films, we also republish quite a lot of
articles. Because sometimes nothing beats some good old-fashioned words on a screen.
This website is basically a clearing house for the knowledge, perspectives and ideas that can change the world. It's a tool-box we can use to raise awareness, create discussion and inspire action.
In the last year, with your help and tens of thousands of others, we've started to reach millions of people each month. And
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