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Unacceptable Levels
Unacceptable Levels (trailer)
Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his...
2 min
An Anarchist Response to Ebola
An Anarchist Response to Ebola
Anarchists are part of the global conversation on what’s broken in the world, but when things really fall apart—like with the current Ebola outbreak—is the state the only answer? How might a stateless society respond to a challenge like this one? This article provides an...
Carwil Bjork-James with Chuck Munson
Diet: The Disease of Our Generation
Diet: The Disease of Our Generation
64% of people in the UK are overweight or obese eating calorie dense but nutritionally empty food that is considered the norm,  or even healthy, in today’s society. 
5 min
Origins
Origins (2014)
This is a movie about how we have left the natural connection to the planet. The movie investigates how this has happened, the incredible amounts of pollutants that we are exposed to, even as a fetus, and the technology that can help resolve these challenges over time. In...
101 min
We Don't Need #BandAid30 - African Musicians Made A Song Already
We Don't Need #BandAid30 - African Musicians Made A Song Already
Bob Geldof is going to put out another Band Aid single, another rehash of  the grotesque “Do They Know it’s Christmas?” with slightly altered lyrics. We’ve written about the problematic politics of such songs in detail before. Bim Adewunmi
Africa is a Country
How the Prison-Industrial Complex Kills People For Profit
How the Prison-Industrial Complex Kills People For Profit
Failing to provide sick prisoners with needed care turns out to be pretty good for Corizon's profits.
3 min
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
One psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.
Angus Chen and Mythili Rao
The Sacred Science
The Sacred Science (2011)
The Sacred Science is a groundbreaking documentary that captures an unprecedented glimpse into the ancient healing practices of the Amazon rainforest’s medicine men, or shamans, whose unique knowledge of indigenous plants and rituals is threatened by deforestation...
75 min
Pinkwashing: Make Your Drilling Rig Less Carcinogenic, Paint It Pink!
Pinkwashing: Make Your Drilling Rig Less Carcinogenic, Paint It Pink!
Sometimes you just can't make this shit up. Fossil fuel frackers Baker Hughes have teamed up with breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen to "end breast cancer forever". How? By painting 1,000 of their drill heads pink and donating $100,000 to the charity. Strangely there is no...
1 min
OverCriminalized
OverCriminalized (2014)
It's simple. Diversion programs work better than incarceration - for everyone.
25 min
Inner Climate Change
Inner Climate Change
How do we change? How do we adapt our lifestyles to become resilient to the changes we are facing today?
11 min
Navajo Nation Sacrificed for US Nuclear Obsession
Navajo Nation Sacrificed for US Nuclear Obsession
Abby Martin talks about a $500 million settlement between the government and Navajo nation over destruction of tribal land due to uranium mining and how this amount will do nothing to alleviate the pain and suffering caused by this industry.
4 min
Lessons Of Darkness
Lessons Of Darkness (1992) (trailer)
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Herzog, as much a daredevil as a documentarian, took his small crew in a...
6 min
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored
Wayward Nation: The New American Dream is Censored
Eric Rusch
A Celebrity Death, Addiction, and the Media - Dr. Gabor Maté
A Celebrity Death, Addiction, and the Media - Dr. Gabor Maté
It is always big news when a celebrity is stricken dead by a substance overdose. What never makes the news is why such tragedies happen.
Dr. Gabor Maté
Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
Gabor Mate: Toxic Culture - How Materialistic Society Makes Us Ill
The Canadian physician and best-selling author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is a brilliantly original thinker on addiction, trauma, parenting and the social context of human diseases and imbalances. Contrary to the assumptions of mainstream medicine, he asserts that most...
30 min
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.
If everyone watched this it could transform the world.
31 min
This Animation Explores the Shocking Environmental Impact of a Meat Heavy Diet
This Animation Explores the Shocking Environmental Impact of a Meat Heavy Diet
This is not sustainable.
5 min
What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté
What Is Addiction? - Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the root causes of addiction and how to deal with them.
3 min
Rewind The Future
Rewind The Future
This viral public awareness video has a powerful and heart-tugging message about the consequences of our eating and lifestyle habits - dating back to our first years of life.
2 min
An Abortion Rights Battle Bigger Than Texas | Sunsara Taylor Interview [ATV 013]
An Abortion Rights Battle Bigger Than Texas | Sunsara Taylor Interview [ATV 013]
 Episode breakdown Part 1: (00:26) Why I support The Abortion Rights Freedom Ride Part 2: (04:00) What Did Stop Patriarchy learn from the 2013 Freedom Ride? Part 3: (05:25) From Roe V. Wade until today, how did we loose so much ground?
30 min
The Problem With Living Your Life on Facebook
The Problem With Living Your Life on Facebook
Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really? Interestingly, a scientific study recently backed up excactly what this video illustrates. Not that we really needed any proof. I think just about everyone that spends time...
2 min
60 Positive Things You Can Do in 60 Seconds
60 Positive Things You Can Do in 60 Seconds
It doesn't take much to create a brighter day. In fact, it takes only sixty seconds!
Amanda Froelich
The Real Reason You're Circumcised
The Real Reason You're Circumcised
If you're not Jewish, and you're circumcised, you need to watch this video.
4 min
Terrícolas (2003) - Earthlings
Terrícolas (2003) - Earthlings
Dado que todos habitamos La Tierra, todos somos considerados terrícolas. No hay sexismo, racismo ni especismo en el término terrícola y abarca a todos y cada uno de nosotros, de sangre caliente o frí­a, mamífero, vertebrado, ave, reptil, anfibio, pez o humano. Los humanos por...
95 min
Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week's Worth of Their Trash
Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week's Worth of Their Trash
The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That’s more than double the amount produced in 1960, and it’s50 percent more than the amount
Jordan G. Teicher
Meats: A Health Hierarchy
Meats: A Health Hierarchy
In case you've not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can.
James Hamblin
18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies
18 Empowering Illustrations to Remind Everyone Who's Really in Charge of Women's Bodies
When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to 
Julianne Ross
No Internet Week
No Internet Week
A documentary about addiction. Addiction of the digital kind.
13 min
The Raising of America
The Raising of America (2014) (trailer)
It’s often said a society can be measured by how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved and valued by their families and communities.
11 min
5 Ways To Take Charge of Your Health ~ Naturally
5 Ways To Take Charge of Your Health ~ Naturally
Looking to take charge of your health? Wondering where to begin? There is so much information out there about what foods to eat or not to eat, about what and how to exercise, about what herbs and supplements to take or not. Social Media has only made the abundance of how...
Ann Armbrecht
Fed Up
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
95 min
Lessons Learned from a Year without Showering
Lessons Learned from a Year without Showering
It has been one year since my last shower. Yes, I know that sounds crazy and a year ago I would have agreed with you. I was a regular showering guy for the first 26 years of my life. Well, maybe not every single day, but just about.
Rob Greenfield
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Top Ten Bill Moyers Videos on the Web
Modern America has a strong generational divide.  Whether it’s cultural or political, there are a wide-range of topics that can be off limits when talking to “the grandparents.”  On the reverse side, it can be hard to listen to the “wisdom” of a generation that’s had such a...
Matthew Toplikar
Foot: A Documentary Exploring Our Current Dysfunctional Relationship With Footwear And Our Feet (trailer)
Foot: A Documentary Exploring Our Current Dysfunctional Relationship With Footwear And Our Feet (trailer)
No Shoes, No Service... But Why? Social norms influence us to cover our feet for a variety of reasons, but we pay a heavy price for this cultural obsession with shoes. Poorly designed footwear has contributed to widespread health issues, and a growing body of evidence...
6 min
Why a Hamburger Should Really Cost $30
Why a Hamburger Should Really Cost $30
Abby Martin takes a look at the meat industry, and the massive government subsidies that are allocated toward it, asking why the price of meat doesn't match its free market value. 
4 min
What Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Death Exposes about the War on Drugs
What Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Death Exposes about the War on Drugs
Abby Martin comments on the death of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and calls attention to the recent deadly spate of heroin deaths, the need to decriminalize all drugs as well as the War on Drugs is failing America's addicts.
5 min
How Big Pharma is Killing Cancer Patients
How Big Pharma is Killing Cancer Patients
Abby Martin highlights a new report from the World Health Organization that predicts global cancer rates to rise by 57% over the next 20 years, and calls attention to the battle over generic cancer medicine and the threat posed by pharmaceutical companies who put profits...
3 min
Penn & Teller Bullshit! - Circumcision
Penn & Teller Bullshit! - Circumcision
Is circumcision a valid practice? Penn & Teller look at the various justifications behind the procedure and try to determine whether there exists a medical or social cause.​
20 min
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
How to Avoid Factory Farmed Foods
There are plenty of reasons to boycott factory farms, including your health, animal welfare and the environment.
Kaye Spector
Real News Network's Full 2013 Interview With Ralph Nader
Real News Network's Full 2013 Interview With Ralph Nader
Paul Jay from The Real News Network sits down with Ralph Nader for a fantastic interview.  This December, 2013 interview is in three segments and covers a range of topics.
25 min
The Obamacare We Deserve
The Obamacare We Deserve
Today marks the beginning of health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act’s new insurance exchanges, for which two million Americans have signed up.
Michael Moore
Toxic Hot Seat
Toxic Hot Seat (2013) (trailer)
Toxic Hot Seat follows a courageous group of firefighters and mothers, journalists and scientists, politicians and activists as they fight to expose a shadowy campaign of deception that left a toxic legacy in our homes and bodies - a campaign so cunning, it's taken nearly 40...
2 min
UnBreaking Birth (trailer)
UnBreaking Birth (trailer)
Will you join the movement to unbreak our birth care system in the U.S.?
2 min
Prosocial Progress: A Blueprint For Social Sustainability
Prosocial Progress: A Blueprint For Social Sustainability (2013)
Prosocial Progress aims to demonstrate how behavioural science can be utilised on a large scale in areas of child development, education and the culture itself in order to bring about sustainability both on a social and environmental level.
55 min
Insurance Scam: How Private Insurance Companies Are Using Obamacare Fears To Rip People Off
Insurance Scam: How Private Insurance Companies Are Using Obamacare Fears To Rip People Off
By now you’ve probably heard horror stories about how the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare, has forced so many people to lose their insurance policies. You’ve heard that affordable health insurance policies are being canceled and replaced with...
Randa Morris
See Why We Have An Absolutely Ridiculous Standard Of Beauty In Just 37 Seconds
See Why We Have An Absolutely Ridiculous Standard Of Beauty In Just 37 Seconds
Time-lapse video shows the radical effect of photoshop on model's body. The clip, created for GlobalDemocracy.com, shows a girl turned into a bombshell glamor model with the help of a hair and make-up artist and of course, Photoshop.
1 min
Getting Dirty Is Good for Your Immune System
Getting Dirty Is Good for Your Immune System
For much of human history we lived close to the natural world. As civilization evolved we became increasingly urbanized, and most of us now live in cities. As we’ve moved away from nature, we’ve seen a decline in other forms of life. Biodiversity is disappearing. The...
David Suzuki
Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives
Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (2006)
About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically engineered ingredients and the biotech industry is spending million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers...
57 min
Three Generations, One Hope for Health : A Story from Kenya
Three Generations, One Hope for Health : A Story from Kenya
END7 presents this story of one family's struggle and triumph over neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Burangi, Kenya. Eight-year-old Fatuma has a big heart, and worries for her younger sister who has been afflicted with intestinal worms for four long years. She also cares...
5 min
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer)
Neurons to Nirvana (trailer)
NEURONS TO NIRVANA is a feature documentary about the resurgence of psychedelics as medicine. Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, the film explores the history of five powerful psychedelic...
2 min
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
Health Care: An Anarchist Approach
The current US debate about health-care funding can be understood as concerned with meeting the challenge of doing three things at once:
Gary Chartier
WEED
WEED (2013)
Finally someone in the mainstream media has changed their opinion on cannabis and he is sharing his new opinion with the world. That someone is CNN news correspondent neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta. On August 11th 2013, CNN aired Sanjay Gupta's documentary "WEED".
40 min
What We Can't Seem to Remember About MDMA and Why Legalizing Drugs Will Save Your Child's Life
What We Can't Seem to Remember About MDMA and Why Legalizing Drugs Will Save Your Child's Life
This article is about every person who has ever ingested a mind-altering substance but didn't want to die from doing so.
Neill Franklin and Mikayla Hellwich
Why French Kids Don't have ADHD
Why French Kids Don't have ADHD
In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than 0.5%. How come the epidemic of ADHD—which has become firmly...
Marilyn Wedge
Grounded: a "Groundbreaking" Documentary About The Healing Power Of The Earth
Grounded: a "Groundbreaking" Documentary About The Healing Power Of The Earth (2013) (trailer)
This captivating documentary follows a National Geographic filmmaker who finds relief from pain and aches using the earth as a healing conduit source of free electrons. Helping his community in Alaska, he expands his circle of people who are eager to learn about the effects...
2 min
Don't Eat It! This Anti-GMO Music Video Aping Michael Jackson's "Beat It" is Super Sweet
Don't Eat It! This Anti-GMO Music Video Aping Michael Jackson's "Beat It" is Super Sweet
In this parody of "Beat It," GMO executives have taken over the food chain, so a group of dedicated citizens march to face them off in an epic battle, but something nefarious and unexpected happens...
8 min
Designing Healthy Communities
Designing Healthy Communities (trailer)
Designing Healthy Communities is a 4 part series and companion book that takes a comprehensive look at the impact America’s built environment has on public health, and at the people and communities working to turn things around through innovative solutions. Many of today’s...
7 min
The Age of Aluminum
The Age of Aluminum (2013) (trailer)
Aluminum is an integral part of our daily lives, from cooking pans and computers, to soda cans, cosmetics and vaccines. But how much do we know about its impact on human health and the environment?
2 min
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (2012) (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
2 min