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Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
Noam Chomsky Turns 90: How a U.S. Anarchist Has More Than Survived
“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.” —Noam...
Bruce E. Levine
Trauma at the Border
Trauma at the Border
This short film exposes the emotional, psychological and physical damage that can be done when children are imprisoned – even with their families.
5 min
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
No Effective Means of Stopping Climate Breakdown Is Deemed “Politically Realistic.” So We Must Change Political Realities.
It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to be reduced to net...
George Monbiot
Who was Fred Hampton?
Who was Fred Hampton?
A 6-minute video on who Fred Hampton was and why he was assassinated at the age of 21. 
6 min
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
Activism Revisited: Conscious Participation and Collective Intelligence
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO? — R. Buckminster Fuller We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
To Help Democrats With 'Stiffening Their Spines' New Indivisible Guide Details How Trump Resistance Can Switch From Defense to Offense
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
Is Facebook Censoring Political Pages?
Is Facebook Censoring Political Pages?
Is it Spam or Censorship?
27 min
A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman
A Solution to Facebook Censorship | Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman
The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
46 min
Jesus at The Polls
Jesus at The Polls
Sarah runs into her old pal Jesus at the polls. With returning guest star Fred Armisen.
6 min
Julian Assange Gets Standing Ovation At TED Talk
Julian Assange Gets Standing Ovation At TED Talk
Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.
23 min
Meet the American Hero Fighting Corruption & Voter Fraud in Florida
Meet the American Hero Fighting Corruption & Voter Fraud in Florida
Tim Canova for Congress! 
4 min
Love And Revolution
Love And Revolution (2018)
July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...
85 min
I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
I'm an Anarchist and I Vote
Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...
Ryan Conrad
100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness
100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness
There are over 4,500 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness of just about every topic related to making the world a better place. You've probably already seen our top 100 documentaries feature. Here are our 100...
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Who Cares?
Who Cares?
“Just who is changing the world?”
93 min
Land of Hope and Glory
Land of Hope and Glory (2017)
The hidden truth behind UK animal farming - featuring approximately 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen undercover footage. Activist Earthling Ed produces and narrates this 'UK Earthlings documentary' with over a decade of undercover footage and Animal...
49 min
Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking
Memory Reconsolidation and Dead Man Walking
How many men have come forward and confessed to committing rape or sexual assault in the public eye?
Josh Liveright
Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand
Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand
The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) brings together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and change-makers to build solutions to global problems from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Fellows receive exclusive access to New Zealand’s new Global Impact Visa, an open work visa...
3 min
1968 - The GlobalRevolt
1968 - The GlobalRevolt (2018) (trailer)
The four-part documentary 1968 – The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 – an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.
2 min
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016)
Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the government’s policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UK’s first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.
49 min
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Seven Mantras of the New Revolution
Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes it’s all action – Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothing’s happening, nothing’s ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...
Chris Taylor
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
Learning From Our Elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
Colin Jenkins
Voices of Transition
Voices of Transition (2012)
This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...
65 min
American Anarchist
American Anarchist (2017) (trailer)
This is the story of one of the most infamous books ever written, The Anarchist Cookbook, and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at the age of 19 in the midst of the counter-culture upheaval of the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
2 min
Periods Are Beautiful
Periods Are Beautiful
Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of ”letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.”* Alas, the average...
Annika Mueller
Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World
Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World
The future we long for is alive and well in the more hopeful corners of our heart.
Chris Taylor
Films For Action's Big Redesign Is Now Live!
Films For Action's Big Redesign Is Now Live!
The biggest changes include:
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Dear White Nationalists, White Rights Activists, and Neo-Nazis | Unite the Right protest in DC
Dear White Nationalists, White Rights Activists, and Neo-Nazis | Unite the Right protest in DC
August 12, 2018 - Support independent media! ▶ https://www.patreon.com/Orf Matt Orfalea 
3 min
Portland Protest Shows New Far-Right Trend: Multiethnic Groups with Fascist Heroes Like Pinochet
Portland Protest Shows New Far-Right Trend: Multiethnic Groups with Fascist Heroes Like Pinochet
Democracy Now! continues their interview with A.C. Thompson, correspondent for Frontline PBS and reporter for ProPublica. His new investigation is titled Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. He discusses how he was there in Portland, Oregon, when anti-racist, anti-fascist...
8 min
How to Defeat Racism
How to Defeat Racism
Here are 5 amazing stories that show the power of unconventional and unexpected approaches to defeating racism, via Matt Orfalea. 
8 min
Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
Decolonizing Jewishness: On Jewish Liberation in the 21st Century
Seven decades on, Israel is geopolitically embattled and the Jewish community is increasingly polarized around the issue of occupation. The occupation – Israeli military control over the Palestinian West Bank and the borders of Gaza Strip – is five decades old. Entire...
Benjamin Steinhardt Case
Patreon Update: A Big Thank You! + New Rewards & More
Patreon Update: A Big Thank You! + New Rewards & More
Hello fellow travelers, explorers, pioneers and visionaries! First I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has thrown their support behind us in the first few months since we launched our Patreon campaign! I can't say how much it means to me and our team to have...
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Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Before & After I Became a Social Justice Vampire
Since publishing my essay Un-Identity: Climbing Down the Other Side of Peak Liberalism, I’ve connected with dozens of other leftists around the world burned out on the hypocrisy and stagnancy of liberal identity politics. Many of us share common experiences of trauma and...
Pat Mosley
Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut
Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)
Political power—armed central authority, with states and war—is it part of human nature? Is it necessary for human community? Or is it a tool that ruling elites use to live at the community's expense? A tool that does violence to human nature and the world? Engines of...
57 min
The Day The Voices Raised
The Day The Voices Raised (2017)
This short documentary talks about the process of KBN’s women workers struggle against sexual harassment in the workplace. In the opening, an ex-women labor of KBN told her story about sexual harassment at her factory. Women Workers Committee collect data on sexual harassment...
23 min
Boots Riley’s Dystopian Satire “Sorry to Bother You” Is an Anti-Capitalist Rallying Cry for Workers
Boots Riley’s Dystopian Satire “Sorry to Bother You” Is an Anti-Capitalist Rallying Cry for Workers
An evil telemarketing company, a corporation making millions off of slave labor, and one Oakland man at the center of it all who discovers a secret that threatens all of humankind. Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” is the dystopian social satire being hailed as one of the...
21 min
Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut Full Script
Engines of Domination 2018 Director's Cut Full Script
The Greatest Tool Ever Invented
Mark Corske
Why I Never Moved to Portland
Why I Never Moved to Portland
I was always going to move to Portland. For years, that was my escape plan.
Sarah Kobos
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities
For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...
Prefigurology
Have You Made Up Your Mind about Jordan Peterson? Why Russell Brand Can Help
Have You Made Up Your Mind about Jordan Peterson? Why Russell Brand Can Help
In this episode, Alter Ego uses Jordan Peterson's recent conversations with Russell Brand to reveal his major strengths and weaknesses, and how we can build on the gaps in his thinking to develop a vision of progress that integrates personal and collective change.
6 min
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
The Mexican Town That Kicked Out Politicians And Started Over
Cherán is a town of some 20,000 inhabitants in the highlands of Michoacán, one of the Mexican states that’s suffered most in the drug wars of the last decade. Armed men and women — not police, but members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town, looking...
6 min
A Lighthouse for Gaza | Envisioning Peace in Israel-Palestine
A Lighthouse for Gaza | Envisioning Peace in Israel-Palestine
From June 21st-23rd, a group of 50 Israelis, Palestinians and internationals gathered at the “Lighthouse”, between kibbutz Be’eri and the border of Gaza, to envision the possibility of change in the Middle East.
13 min
Calls to Abolish ICE Grow as Encampments Multiply Across United States
Calls to Abolish ICE Grow as Encampments Multiply Across United States
It was about 3:30 a.m. on the morning of Monday, June 25 when armed Federal Protective Service officers returned to the Portland, Oregon office for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE personnel had not been back since June 19, when protesters began disallowing easy...
Shane Burley
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
“Anthropologists have long known that Native Americans reared courageous, respectful children without using harsh coercive controls. Nevertheless, Europeans colonizing North America tried to “civilize” indigenous children in punitive boarding schools, unaware that Natives...
Reclaiming Youth International
Alaska Natives' Fight for the Land
Alaska Natives' Fight for the Land
Alaska's indigenous people have fought against colonization, assimilation and exploitation — this is their story.
9 min
Toward a Liberation Psychology
Toward a Liberation Psychology
The following is an excerpt from Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011) by Bruce E. Levine. In this book, Levine describes how American institutions and culture have created a passive and defeated...
Bruce E. Levine
The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement
The Rise of the Crisis Actor Conspiracy Movement (2018)
Over the past 10 years, a growing online community of conspiracy theorists and hoaxers known as “truthers” has come to question the official narratives behind every mass shooting that is heavily covered by the media. A common thread in these theories is the government’s role...
26 min
Bring Julian Assange Home
Bring Julian Assange Home
The persecution of Julian Assange must end. Or it will end in tragedy.
John Pilger
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed
“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying...
Bruce E. Levine
A Hero’s Hero | Daniel Ellsberg on Chelsea Manning
A Hero’s Hero | Daniel Ellsberg on Chelsea Manning
American hero, Daniel Ellsberg, celebrated in the movie "The Post", tells the world who his own inspirational hero is.
4 min
Reveal, Remember and Resist: the Three Rs Remixed
Reveal, Remember and Resist: the Three Rs Remixed
Passivity in the young is an obstacle to social transformation. Let’s teach kids to recognize and use their agency.
Leon Prescod
Counter Mapping
Counter Mapping
In this film, we meet Jim Enote, a traditional Zuni elder, farmer, and director of the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center in Zuni, New Mexico. Enote is working with Zuni artists to provide an alternative way to understand and create maps which offer an indigenous voice...
10 min
Interview with Abby Martin – Corporate Media, Imperialism & People Power
Interview with Abby Martin – Corporate Media, Imperialism & People Power
On the 6th of May 2018, acTVism Munich organized an event with Glenn Greenwald, Jill Stein & Abby Martin under the title “Freedom & Democracy: Global Issues in Context 2.0″.
29 min
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement (2016)
“Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement” is an original documentary film that chronicles the evolution of the Black Lives Matter movement through the first person accounts of local activists, protesters, scholars, journalists and others.
39 min
The Hidden War on Trans Rights
The Hidden War on Trans Rights
In 2016, more than 50 bills were introduced in Congress targeting Trans people. Since Trump took office, dozens of pieces of landmark legislation have been cancelled, severely rolling back Trans rights.
22 min
Peter Joseph talk with Daniel Pinchbeck, NYC, The Zeitgeist Movement, April 5th 2018
Peter Joseph talk with Daniel Pinchbeck, NYC, The Zeitgeist Movement, April 5th 2018
Peter Joseph talks with 
113 min
Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism
Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism
As I have been called to action, more from Earth and Spirit than from world events, I found myself drawn into a deep exploration of my own Nature as an integral part of finding a compass in these times.
​Pat McCabe
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Queer Anti-War Activists Challenge Military Inclusion
Is all inclusion good inclusion?
Toshio Meronek
Why I Stopped Seeking My Purpose
Why I Stopped Seeking My Purpose
And why I think you should also do it
Gustavo Tanaka
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?
In March, Richard Spencer, a prominent white supremacist, cancelled his speaking engagements at U.S. universities, saying he was deterred by “antifa,” a loose international network of radical anti-fascist groups that aims to shut down far-right talks and rallies. For antifa...
Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin