May Day

This is a video about the celebration of May Day, by Unions, and Occupy Wall Street. A Rally, Demonstrations, and Parades took place on May 1, 2012, in New York City. It was in all parts of the city and it lasted all day.

13 min

Corporate FM (2012) (trailer)

The internet didn't kill radio. Commercial radio is killing itself.

1 min

Institutional Corruption and How we Can Fix It

Lawrence Lessig explains how institutional corruption has affected every aspect of our government.

54 min

Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (trailer)

Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country is a 2008 Danish documentary film directed by Anders Østergaard. It follows the September 2007 protests against the military regime in Burma. Some of it was filmed on hand-held cameras. The footage was smuggled out of the country...

2 min

Solidarity with the Syrian people

Stand in solidarity with the people of Syria calling and dying for their freedom and right to choose their leaders.

Saf Suleyman

Faking It: How the Media Manipulates the World into War

As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension.

14 min

Major ISPs to turn into copyright police by July, says RIAA

File-sharers, beware: By July 12, major US Internet service providers (ISPs) will voluntarily begin serving as copyright police for the entertainment industry, according to Cary Sherman, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The so-called...

Films For Action

WikiLeaks releases first 200 of 5 Million Stratfor emails

WikiLeaks has released the first 200 of a cache of 5m emails obtained from the servers of Stratfor, a US-based intelligence firm.

Films For Action

The Films For Action Challenge on FB: How Many of these 100 Activist Documentaries Have You Seen?

Films For Action recently released a Facebook App that features a top-100 compendium of documentaries made to change the world...

Films For Action

Film review: Why ‘Thrive’ is best avoided

What do you do when you are the heir to the Proctor and Gamble fortune and you have spent years surrounding yourself with new agey thinking and conspiracy theories? You make a film like ‘Thrive‘, the latest conspiracy theory movie that is popping up all over the place. I’ve...

Rob Hopkins

Films For Action Launches New Mobile Site!

January 25, 2012 - We've launched our new mobile site today, bringing the site's library of over 900 films, independent news and actions to the small screen inside your pocket.

Films For Action

The Definitive Post On Why SOPA And Protect IP Are Bad, Bad Ideas

from the let's-walk-through-the-reasons dept There's been plenty of talk (and a ton of posts here on Techdirt) discussing both SOPA (originally E-PARASITE) and PROTECT IP (aka PIPA), but it seemed like it would be useful to create a single, "definitive" post to highlig

Mike Masnick

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan...

Glenn Greenwald

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2011

2011 will likely be remembered in America as the year that the nation's youth finally started to wake up - all that bubbling knowledge of the world's problems, all the discontent and disillusion with our broken system finally burst into a flurry of creative action. Our...

Tim Hjersted

AT&T T-Mobile Deal Dropped After Fierce Government Backlash

AT&T Inc. is hanging up on its $39 billion bid to buy smaller wireless provider T-Mobile USA, nearly four months after the U.S. government raised concerns that the deal would raise prices, reduce innovation and give customers fewer choices.

Associated Press

The Top 10 Films That Explain Why the Occupy Movement Exists

One of the most entertaining yet unsurprising aspects of Occupy Wall St has been the response from traditional media. Whether intentionally playing dumb or genuinely clueless, the mainstream media has failed to inform the public and substantially address the key issues. But...

Tim Hjersted

End Industry Handouts to Big Media

Television and radio broadcasters get to use our public airwaves for free. It’s a great deal … for them, at least. For the rest of us, it’s just another corporate giveaway.

Free Press

Films For Action Is Ready to Hit the Tipping Point in 2012

It's been five years since the Films For Action project began in Lawrence, Kansas. It started with one simple idea: we can't depend on the mainstream media to inform us, so let's become the media ourselves by hosting documentaries on issues that the corporate media ignores.

Films For Action

Bring "Democracy Now!" to a Station Near You

Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is

Matthew Toplikar

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (trailer)

Based on the book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. Featuring interviews with media analysts...

7 min

PIPA / SOPA Breaks The Internet

Tell Congress not to censor the internet NOW! - fightforthefuture.org/?pipa PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name...

4 min

Governments are ordering Youtube to Censor Protest videos

#ANONYMOUS has issued a warning that governments are ordering Youtube to censor protest videos to stop populist rage from spreading.Statement belowhttp://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/11697760542/urgent-government...

Anonymous

Save the Internet: Senator "Whiplist"

A handful of corporate hardliners in the Senate are introducing a "resolution of disapproval" that would give phone and cable companies unrestricted power over the Internet. We need your help to ensure your senators don't support this free speech-killing resolution. The...

Free Press

The People Are the Media

Shifting Power from Corporate Interests Requires us to be Expand Our Media Power

Kevin Zeese

Films For Action's Public Film Screening Guide

This guide will give you step by step instructions on how to host Films For Action sponsored film screening events in your city. It is intended primarily for people who have started or want to start a local Films For Action chapter, with the goal of hosting several screenings...

Tim Hjersted and Matt Toplikar

Why Feds Are Right to Block AT&T, T-Mobile Merger

Ryan Singel

Al Franken Exposes Misinformation On Net Neutrality

Senator Al Franken explains why net neutrality is important to both the American citizen and the American business owner by dispelling the misinformation claiming net neutrality is a government takeover of the internet. Instead, net neutrality is exactly how the internet...

20 min

Mainstream Media: Presstitutes for the Rich and Powerful

While the Rupert Murdoch scandal is justifiably front-page news, there is a much wider problem with the mainstream media. Purchasing ReportersFamed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein says the CIA has already

Washington's Blog

Another Historic Victory for Media Justice

PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its long-awaited verdict in Prometheus Radio Project v. the Federal Communications Commission, rejecting the FCC’s attempt to further deregulate media ownership. The Court threw out FCC rules...

Prometheus Radio

The Elephant on Campus | Dennis Littky

a snippet of michael's interview with radical educator dennis littky.

2 min

Control Room (trailer)

A 2004, award winning documentary about news coverage of the Iraq War. The film compares the bias of the Al Jazeera network with that of American news outles-- as well as the official story coming from the American military.

2 min

Why Is Chris Hedges A Lone Voice In Criticizing Huffington Post’s Business Model?

Chris Hedges’ new TruthDig column, Huffington’s Plunder, raises a topic that seems to provoke a lot of uneasiness in the liberal blogosphere. It points a spotlight on the business model pioneered by one of the country’s most prominent progressive voices, Arianna Huffington.

Stan

50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media

Such a powerful speech by one of our all-time heroes.

37 min

Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class

Chris Hedges, whose book "Death of the Liberal Class" (Perseus/Nation Books) came out the day of this presentation, is also the best-selling author of "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a...

45 min

In bin Laden killing, media -- as usual -- regurgitates false Government claims

Virtually every major newspaper account of the killing of Osama bin Laden consists of faithful copying of White House claims. That's not surprising: it's the White House which is in exclusive possession of the facts, but what's also not surprising is that many of the claims...

Glenn Greenwald

NCMR 2011: The Heart of the Movement

Megan Tady

Rick Karr at NCMR 2011

Journalist, educator and correspondent for Blueprint America Rick Karr spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 10, 2011. Karr was introduced by Free Press Incoming President Craig Aaron.

10 min

Barbershop Punk (trailer)

In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero...

2 min

Amy Goodman at NCMR 2011

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, delivered a rousing speech about the power of the people to change the media at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston April 8-10, 2011.

18 min

Malkia Cyril at NCMR 2011

Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice Malkia Cyril spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 8, 2011. The conference was presented by Free Press. For more information, go to conference.freepress.net.

14 min

Craig Aaron at NCMR 2011

Free Press incoming president Craig Aaron spoke at the National Conference for Media Reform in Boston on April 9. To find out more about the conference, go to conference.freepress.net

13 min

PirateBox: an "Artistic Provocation" in Lunchbox Form

Nate Anderson

Wait, Who’s Greedy?

Jon Stewart

6 Threats to Free and Open Access to the Internet

Many of us believe the Internet to be open and free for us to explore all known information. Indeed, it is true that we currently can surf to any active website with our browser, and we can start a website or blog on any topic we wish to discuss. And it is quite a profound...

Activist Post

Start a Films For Action Chapter in Your City

Films For Action

Beautiful Losers (2008) (trailer)

Beautiful Losers follows the lives and careers of a collective group of Do-it-yourself artists and designers who inadvertently affected the art world. Free spirited approach to life. Not seeking just doing their thing.

3 min

Exit Through The Gift Shop (trailer)

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous...

2 min

The Garden at the End of the World (trailer)

Gary Caganoff's 'captivating and gutsy' film on Afghanistan.

3 min

The War You Don't See (2010)

A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.

98 min

Enemy Image (2005)

When Baghdad exploded under bombs, television chose to bring us fireworks. But does this distant and spectacular image tell us what is really happening on the ground, how it feels or what it means? Television has the means to take us anywhere and show us anything. It can...

92 min

Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.

Dear Citizens of the United States of America,

Anonymous

Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model

In Manufacturing Consent (1988; and updated in Herman,1996). Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky claim that because media is firmly imbedded in the market system, it reflects the class values and concerns of its owners and advertisers. According to Herman and Chomsky, the media...

Peter Phillips and Project Censored

Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion

Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. In it, he charts the dramatic rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy, and illusion. Hedges argues we now live in two societies...

83 min

Blackout-Proof the Protests

Across the Middle East -- in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and more countries every day, autocratic regimes are trying to crush unprecedented peaceful protests with brutality and blackouts. Avaaz is working urgently to "blackout-proof" the protests -- with secure satellite modems...

Films For Action

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (trailer)

If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the blame for this state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which...

5 min

Huffington’s Plunder

I was in New York City on Thursday night at the Brecht Forum to discuss with the photographer Eugene Richards his powerful new book “War Is Personal” when I was approached for an interview by a blogger for The Huffington Post. I had just finished speaking with another...

Chris Hedges

The Root Problem Is the Root Solution: How We Can Fix Our Democracy and Create a Sustainable Future

So, I was trying to get my friend to read a recent issue of Adbusters magazine.

Tim Hjersted

Empire: Social networks, Social Revolution (2011)

Youtube, Facebook and Twitter have become the new weapons of mass mobilisation. Are social networks triggering social revolution? And where will the next domino fall?

26 min

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (2009)

In RiP: A Remix Manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

80 min

The Leaked Campaign to Attack WikiLeaks and Its Supporters

There's been a very strange episode being written about the past couple of days involving numerous parties, including me, that I now want to comment on. The story, first reported by The Tech Herald, has been been written about in numerous places (see

Glenn Greenwald

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