An Intimate Discourse with Visionaries of The Great Turning (2021)

Leading visionaries of The Great Turning respond to key questions relevant to the challenges of our times:

93 min

Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050 (feat. Greta)

The Government™ has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

4 min

The Hypocrisy of Bailouts | Jon Stewart

Why are billion-dollar corporate bailouts the American status quo, but bailing out struggling people is a socialist nightmare? It's almost like the priorities of this country are a little skewed...

8 min

The Worst Attack Since the Civil War!

"News directors and editors once needed stiff nudges to repeat a president’s words verbatim, not just because it’s embarrassing to take dictation from a politician, but because it was bad business to do it for free. If politicians wanted you to buy the “Axis of Evil” or “the...

3 min

The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism

While it's often easy to fall into doomerism, remaining dedicated, principled, and optimistic is critical to the success of any movement. Let's talk about revolutionary optimism and what it can do for us.

15 min

The Two Futures Of Automation: Capitalism VS Socialism

With jobs being automated and handed off to machines at an ever-increasing pace, it's only natural to consider what our future will look like. Will humans have more free time to spend with loved ones? More time to pursue hobbies and fulfilling activities? Or will the status...

19 min

How Capitalism Ruined Work

If you’re unemployed, it isn’t because there’s no work. There is, and always will be, work to be done. So...what's going on? Why are there so few meaningful jobs, and why are they getting replaced by alienating, meaningless labor?

19 min

The 10 Tactics of Fascism | Jason Stanley

"Never Again?" How fascism hijacks democracies over and over.

10 min

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

Join Bill Pfeiffer as he discusses his journey to embracing an indigenous world view and how this approach can help save our planet. This video is a production of Lake Erie Institute and is made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

37 min

Jane and the Dark Cloud: An Animation about Systems Change (2021)

Beautiful short animated film, that through the story of Jane and Dan, empowers audiences and grass roots campaigners with an understanding of what 'system change', means. It shows what a truly system changing Green New Deal could look like in the UK and beyond after COVID...

6 min

Making Sense with Scout Mindset | Julia Galef

Why do some people see things that others don't? Julia Galef believes that it's because they're using what she calls Scout Mindset.

53 min

If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Why is Sensemaking broken? What would it mean to fix it, and how might we go about it?

7 min

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.

88 min

Owned: A Tale of Two Americas (2019)

“Home ownership to me means freedom—strictly. The more and more I evaluate this world, the more and more I understand: when you don’t own anything, you are nothing.” That’s how Greg Butler, a young black house flipper, sums up his view of the American dream.

82 min

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

Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods. In Washington, DC, where high school dropout rates average 40%, a group of...

83 min

How to Start a Regenerative Farm from Scratch

Have you ever wanted to start a regenerative farm from scratch? In this video, the Heifer USA team traveled to North Carolina to visit Grass Grazed Farm, a regenerative farm where founders Derrick and Paige Jackson have established and grown a successful business in just two...

21 min

Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest. Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who...

55 min

Why This Gives Me Hope for the Future

Why Solarpunk gives me hope for the future.

12 min

How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality

Solarpunk is a vision of the future that we can implement today. Here are just a few ways to get started!

23 min

Neuroscientist: "First Hour of The Morning is CRUCIAL" | Andrew Huberman

Stanford neuroscientist explains why conscious dopamine fasting is so important in the digital age.

6 min

THE GREAT NHS HEIST

Universal healthcare has been a fundamental human right in many developed countries for decades. Britain led the way in establishing the National Health Service in 1948 from the wreckage of World War II, but unbeknown to the public UK governments have secretly been removing...

96 min

Joanna Macy: Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path

This 20 minute interview with Joanna Macy will help answer an essential question: How are we going to live our lives fully, with inner peace and courage (and even joy) as we confront a world that is destroying itself?

20 min

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

OYLER profiles how an innovative "community school" helped fuel a dramatic turnaround in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, part of a growing national movement to help poor children succeed by transforming schools to meet basic health, social, and nutritional needs. Before...

56 min

Stuart Hall: Through The Prism of an Intellectual Life (trailer)

The Media Education Foundation presents Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life A Lecture by Stuart Hall In this recently discovered, newly restored video of one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the...

2 min

Why "Terrorism" Is A Dangerous Word

If you've been keeping up with online news, you may have seen coverage of a Navy anti-terrorism training document that equated socialists and anarchists with neo-nazis. Even if you don't consider yourself a member of the political left, it should be obvious that this is an...

19 min

The Man Who Knew Too Much (2020)

A documentary film about Colin Wallace an intelligence officer who blew the whistle on fake news and was framed for a murder.

69 min

An Urgent Message for Humanity

Climate disruption is human-caused and, while that's hard to acknowledge for some, we take a hopeful approach: if we caused it, we can do something about it.

4 min

How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity

If you live in the United States, odds are you've encountered the distinctly American "conservative christian." It seems that these people, despite their fierce devotion to their faith, have no idea what the Bible actually calls them to do. In this episode, we're taking a...

22 min

Everything You Know about Poverty is Wrong | Rutger Bregman

Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty, obviously we had to ask him how!

6 min

The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot

And what we can do about it...

5 min

The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient Making Your Food Toxic

Industrial seed oils are in almost all processed foods.

29 min

How The United States Ended Up With Two Right-Wing Parties

We hear a lot about the Democrats being "the radical left." Most of us know this obviously isn't the case, but what many Americans don't realize is that the Democrats should not be considered left-wing at all. In this episode we're exploring the ratchet effect and the long...

14 min

The Myth Of The "Self-Made" Billionaire

It’s no secret that Americans love to hear about billionaires. You’ll find them everywhere. They’re on the news [Bezos space launch], have their own TV shows, movies, and even make their way to elected office. Specifically, we consistently give massive audiences to...

13 min

How We Fix the Climate

We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of that is understanding the tools and strategies countries are using to decarbonize and stabilize the climate. This is work that's already being done. We have already decoupled economic growth from the...

17 min

"Work Is An Intolerable Imprisonment" | J. Krishnamurti

In this video, Krishnamurti critiques our work culture and urges us to find out if we can free ourselves from the imprisonment that is a 9 to 5 job. Jiddu Krishnamurti, (born 1895, Madanapalle, India—died 1986, Ojai, Calif., U.S.), Indian spiritual leader.

11 min

6 Ways to Heal Trauma without Medication, from the Author of “The Body Keeps the Score, ” Bessel van der Kolk

Conventional psychiatric practices tell us that if we feel bad, take this drug and it will go away. But after years of research with some of the top psychiatric practitioners in the world, we’ve found that drugs simply don’t work that well for many, and our conventional ways...

9 min

Beyond Trauma Informed, with Darcia Narvaez and Mary Tarsha

It could be argued that humans have never been so destructive, so violent against a living earth. How did we arrive here? We forgot the wellness-informed pathway to human wellbeing, a holistic wellbeing that leads to peacefulness. We describe the wellness-informed pathway and...

85 min

Iraq Vet Disrupts George W. Bush Speech, Sept. 19 2021

Iraq War veteran and Empire Files producer Mike Prysner disrupted a speech by George W. Bush in Beverly Hills on Sept. 19, 2021.

3 min

Small Scale Agroecological Approaches for the COVID 19 Response and Beyond

From the closure of markets to the interruption of agricultural supply chains, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to disrupt food systems around the world. Many families, especially those in already fragile contexts, may soon struggle to access healthy, nutritious diets. Meeting...

67 min

CIA Whistleblower On Declassified 9/11 Documents

Former CIA analyst and case officer, who blew the whistle on its torture program, breaks down the newly declassified FBI document on the Saudi connection to 9/11 so that people who haven't been in the CIA or FBI can understand what the hell it says. The report was...

123 min

Afghanistan War Pays Off BIG For Generals Who Lied

Where are all the top US commanders of the Afghanistan War who lied to keep it going for 20 years? Turns out they're doing pretty well!

5 min

Never Forget: Lessons of the Post-9/11 Warpath

As the US Empire tries to leave its 9/11 warpath on Afghanistan & Iraq in the past, Abby Martin reviews the core lessons.

13 min

The Victims of 9/11 Should Have Got Justice, Instead They Got War

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9 min

Breaking the Cycle - Reclaiming Our Humanity with Our Evolved Nest (2021)

Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human...

6 min

The One Thing NEVER Mentioned When Talking About Islamist Terrorism

Let's talk about radical Islam... and who's funded it.

13 min

The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report

Second Thought explains the IPCC's new climate report.

17 min

Not Going Quietly (trailer)

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

3 min

The Big Scary "S" Word (trailer)

Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.

2 min

Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (trailer)

An intimate portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a pioneer on behalf of racial and economic justice and the lone voice in opposition to the authorization of military force after the September 11th attacks.

3 min

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

“They are entirely complicit”

10 min

How Finland Ended Homelessness

Second Thought explains how Finland ended homelessness.

14 min

Honest Government Ad | Carbon Capture and Storage

The Australien Government has made an ad about Carbon Capture and Storage, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

5 min

Death by Pollution (2021)

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...

10 min

How The Media Stopped Us Caring About the Planet | George Monbiot

“They allowed this entire shitfest to happen"

10 min

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

The film about Afghanistan that corporate media, war profiteers, conservatives, centrists, and establishment liberals do not want you to see.

10 min

‘I Felt Like A F*cking Nazi’: An Ex-Border Patrol Agent Speaks Out

Jenn Budd is a former senior U.S. Border Patrol agent turned migrant rights activist. She spoke to Dena Takruri about what she calls a racist, sexist and corrupt culture inside the agency.

11 min

COVID-19, Capitalism and the Pandemic of Endless War

If you think police budgets are out of hand, wait until you hear about the military. A Gravel Institute documentary on the links between the pandemic, power, and capitalism.

8 min

How to Defeat PragerU: The Gravel Institute

There's a big problem on the internet: right-wing groups like PragerU pour lies and disinformation into the feeds of every American. H Jon Benjamin (of Bob's Burgers and Archer) explains how The Gravel Institute is fighting back.

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Sustenance (2020)

A challenge instigated by a group of friends with different diets and eating habits takes the viewers of Sustenance on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability. Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food's journey around the world and its...

88 min

Exterminate All The Brutes (2021) (trailer)

Exterminate All the Brutes is an eye-opening journey through time, offering an incisive look at the history of European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. The groundbreaking series explores the lasting impact of exploitation and genocide on society today, pushing the...

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