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A short documentary about the satirical exploits of the mock flat earthers God Hates Globes. This was a response to the hate group God Hates Fags.
3 min
Hide and Seek is a short glimpse at the devastating effects of forgotten landmines around the world and what the Canadian Land Mine Foundation is doing about it.
14 min
A documentary detailing climate change in Africa and some of the water problems facing Axum, Ethiopia
A story that will change how you think about what kinds of change will *really* make a difference
Charles Eisenstein
Perhaps the most redeeming aspect of my father’s ministry was his tireless work to help people heal from guilt and shame. I saw the transformative impact that his efforts had on people’s lives as they built the strength to lay down years of resentment and bitterness, and...
R.L. Stephens
Wherever you see angry black people in motion, you'll find Democratic party elements doing their thing, protecting the careers of the elected and unelected members of the black political class from politicians to preachers and prison wardens, misdirecting black rage...
Bruce A. Dixon
The popular expression, “there is no place like home” can echo deep within the fiber of our beings. Remembering our homes intuitively invokes a sense of place for many of us. A sense of place or rootedness can awaken feelings of comfort, love, belonging, peace and security...
Kathleen Daley
6 min
After premiering at SXSW, this experimental walk through the Peace Movement in the United States has played more than forty of the top film festivals across the country. In addition to the US screenings, the short has recently found a global audience with festival screenings...
SEED ACT tells the stories of the women and men that dedicate their lives and work to preserving and defending our farm seed heritage. In a world choked by restrictive laws that give precedence to the commercial and intellectual property rights of transnational companies over...
2 min
Immigrants are part of the fabric of our society. It’s time to celebrate, not vilify them.
4 min
Last summer, a New York city police officer choked a black grandfather named Eric Garner to death. Garner was suspected of selling loose cigarettes. The arrests of people like Garner are part of a controversial policing tactic called Broken Windows. Broken Windows claims to...
3 min
Conservative is a tricky word. The policies advocated by Ted Cruz and most of the Republican party are anything but conservative in the traditional sense.
8 min
As governments debate what to about the current economic crisis, this film explores the day-to-day reality for those workers living on a financial knife-edge. For most people, work seems the most likely route out of poverty and exclusion. But for over five million people in...
8 min
"Cos us young people aren't just about guns, knife crime and drugs"
11 min
A short film about the interconnected issues of money, growth, poverty and climate change.
15 min
Social Justice/Visual Anthropology Documentary; that talks about Waste Politics and Reuse Culture in the SF Bay Area, or more specifically the ways that people understand themselves in relation to the objects that they choose to reuse. By exploring the ideas and philosophies...
17 min
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars marketing drugs to doctors. We have a few issues with that.
2 min
These short (1-3 minute) videos have been created by the Metta Center for Nonviolence with support from XCEL University to accompany a classroom workbook entitled "The Power Within: Reaching Our Highest Potential Through the Practice of Nonviolence." Each of the 16 videos can...
The motto of Dauphin, Manitoba, a small farming town in the middle of Canada, is “everything you deserve.” What a citizen deserves, and what effects those deserts have, was a question at the heart of a 40-year-old experiment that has lately become a focal point in a debate...
Whitney Mallett
They burned him alive in an iron cage, and as he screamed and writhed in the agony of hell they made a sport of his death.
Bill Moyers
4 min
The United States is one of only TWO countries in the world that use a commercial bail system.
We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage. We torture hostages in our black sites and choke them to death by stuffing rags down their throats. They torture hostages in squalid hovels and behead...
Chris Hedges
3 min
You are probably a bit of a blamer - most of us are. But why should we give it up? In this witty RSA Short, inspirational thinker Brené Brown considers why we blame others, how it sabotages our relationships, and why we desperately need to move beyond this toxic...
Here at Autostraddle we’ve done a fair amount of coverage of the recent protests swelling around the issue of police violence and
Hannah Hodson
36 min
Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa and its most popular destination for tourists. It is especially known for its beautiful beaches, Table Mountain, Lion's Head, Robben Island and the Cape Peninsula with famous Cape Point. Because of its rich and...
3 min
Ever wondered why we're not on track to solve climate change despite all the protests and petitions? Watch this to hear the story of what's really been going on. For more information on how you can take action visit http://nononsensevideos.org/action
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6 min
This is not a trailer for a finished film -- just a taste of what we're dreaming up.
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Yaigojé Apaporis is the local name for a one million hectare stretch of Amazon forest, and the traditional territory of the Makuna, Tanimuka, Tuyuca, Cabiyari and Letuama who live there. It is a haven for jaguars, giant ant-eaters, squirrel monkeys and pink dolphins, and is...
Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is unfolding on the planet today, and highly significant for the light they shed on the transition from an old world to a new.
Charles Eisenstein
As someone who writes regularly on the subject of white privilege, I am often electronically attacked by those who insist that the very notion of such a thing is a mere figment of my imagination: well, mine, and that of all the other “race hustlers” out there. “Don’t you know...
Tim Wise
"Going to Places that Scare Me: Personal Reflections on Challenging Male Supremacy" is an excerpt from the critically acclaimed book, Towards Collective Liberation: Anti-Racist Organizing, Feminist Praxis, and Movement Building Strategy by Chris Crass. Around the world, women...
Chris Crass
58 min
AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 (58 min. documentary, Israel-Germany-The Netherlands, 1997). Arguably the first film that seriously tackles the historical events that lead to the creation of 750.000 Palestinian refugees at the end of the first Israeli-Arab war of...
53 min
"If you will it, it is no dream," wrote the founder of political Zionism Theodor Herzl in 1902, prophesizing the creation of a utopian Jewish state. One hundred years later, some of the harshest critics of Israel's occupation policies are Israelis themselves - a small...
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The film chronicles the daily life of two Palestinian middle-class professionals who live in the shadow of "The Wall" in the greater Jerusalem area. THE CONCRETE CURTAIN is a sequel to THE WALL which was made a year earlier for Dutch TV. Photography: Eytan Harris. Editor...
The religious façade is merely another element of IS propaganda, the mobilising ideology that provides a veneer of legitimacy for its existence
Recently, in the Daily Mail, Piers Morgan wrote about his “uncont
Nafeez Ahmed
This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work as the current trajectories are counter-liberatory from my perspective. Special thanks to DS in Phoenix for convos that lead to this ‘zine and all those who provided...
IAM
3 min
Ever wondered how they do it? Guinea, and many other African countries, will never rise out of poverty if this continues to happen…
68 min
White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a...
7 min
This is a short animated introduction to Participatory Economics. It's made about 10 times more hilarious and enjoyable to watch thanks to the laugh track and frequent jokes.
3 min
This is a video tour of our pregnancy hostel located in Central America. The house is for indigenous pregnant women and infants to stay near medical care . The women who stay here live days walk deep into the cloud forests in remote villages.
The lead-up to an election is a tough time to be an anarchist. There's always someone wagging a patronising finger and telling you that your, or their, or someone's grandparents died for your 'right' to submit agency over your life to someone who also claims to represent...
Liam Barrington-Bush
When you’re given the opportunity to publish Ursula K. Le Guin, you leap at it—even if you’re ostensibly a fiction magazine and what lands on your desk is one of Le Guin’s political essays.
Ursula K. Le Guin
7 min
No electromagnetic warfare testing or training on the Olympic Peninsula!
The surprising origins of a beloved board game
In March of 1903, a single woman in her late thirties walked into the U.S. Patent Office to secure her claim to a board game she had been diligently designing in the hours she stole from her day job as a stenographer. Lizzie...
Jen Doll
The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) burning of a captured Jordanian pilot alive produced justified revulsion globally, resulting in the terrorist organization being termed “barbarous” and similar epithets. Why did it behave this way? Because it wants to terrify its opponents into...
Juan Cole
5 min
Big News up here in Canada; Committe On Monetary and Economic Reform have been fighting a Lawsuit versus the Queen, finance minister and the Bank of Canada to regain control of the Bank Of Canada from the IMF Visit Our Website: http://www.valhallamovement.com ===== STAY UP TO...
22 min
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with rapper and activist, Immortal Technique, about everything from US gun laws to the response to the recent terrorist attacks in France.
12 min
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with bestselling author, Naomi Wolf, about topics related to female sexuality, primarily covered in her book 'Vagina: A New Biography'.
100 min
Grierson Awards nominee “Best Documentary on a Contemporary Theme”. The acclaimed film that exposed Labour's Sir Stuart Bell's as "Britain's Lasiest MP". Against all the odds, BAFTA nominated film-maker and Labour voter John Walsh becomes a Conservative Candidate for a seat...
7 min
A short documentary film detailing the process of halal live animal slaughter. An exploration of man-made transformation. Completed for SVA's Social Documentary Film MFA program. Explicit content, viewer discretion advised. Produced, lensed and edited by Lucas P. Smith...
9 min
MISTREATED MINDS is a documentary about the often overwhelming stigma facing those who are challenged with mental health conditions. In 1992, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and Public Citizen's Health Research Group released a report that "revealed...
85 min
Monthly Economic Update Co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church Richard D. Wolff Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 7:30pm "The Economics of a New Year" Judson Memorial Church Assembly Hall 239 Thompson Street at Washington Square, Manhattan...
So one particular night I went on a knowledge binge and spent 9 hours reading about privilege theory. Below you'll find excerpts and links to most of the articles I read.
Feedback from my lecture at the Green Party annual meeting has been trickling in, and it seems that the talk wasn’t as well-received as I thought at the time. The people who walked out in the first five minutes – maybe they didn’t have to go to the bathroom after all, as I’d...
Charles Eisenstein
Last weekend I decided I would get the kids outdoors for a little time in nature. The Susquehanna River was frozen over, with the most remarkable ice formations. Even though the water is not deep in this part of the river, ice somehow piled up several feet. The photograph...
Charles Eisenstein
Today!
UH Maui Hawaiian Studies
If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.
In August, five young men showed up at Soul Fire Farm, a sustainable farm near Albany, New York, where I work as educator and food justice coordinator. It was the first day of...
Leah Penniman
In the film Beyond Right and Wrong, a mother who survived the deaths of her five children tries to come to terms with the man who murdered them. Another victim's daughter befriends the bomber who killed her father. And two men, one Israeli, one Palestinian, form an...
Build A Deaf School Palestine
10 min
British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, "Chasing the Scream: The...
4 min
David Cameron says a second financial crash is imminent. If he's right, it's because politicians bailed out the wrong industry, argues Renegade Economist Ross Ashcroft. He says the last recession was brought on by too much debt. Today private debt is at the greatest level in...
81 min
A Rockefeller & Dickey Center Lecture by Erica Chenoweth, Asst. Professor of Government & Founder, Program on Terrorism & Insurgency Research, Wesleyan University Friday, February 3 4:30--6 pm, Rockefeller Center 003 Professor Erica Chenoweth will discuss her book...
3 min
Do we look like feminists? Shugs & Fats explore the question with strangers.
30 min
Walking Merchandise exposes the tragic story of middle-school-aged, Chinese children trafficked to the United States by smugglers known as “snakeheads.” Sent by their parents to work as low-wage laborers as a source of income, the children embark on a perilous journey that...
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THE WOODCUTTERS is a short documentary that tells the story of three men at the heart of the fight to bring down a tyrannical regime In Niger 2009, the country was on the brink. The President had dissolved the highest courts, torn up the constitution and imprisoned his opponents.
4 min
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
48 min
This groundbreaking 1997 PBS documentary launched the movement against American Indian mascots to a new level, getting reviewed in the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Chicago Tribune, and even a "person of the week" spot about the film's subject Charlene Teters by the ABC...
For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That...
Sigmund Fraud
6 min
How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world? We keep hearing about the potentially devastating consequences of climate change but we are pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every single year. We are forced...
Get up off the couch! The filmmakers of "The Corporation" are raising money to launch a shorter, downloadable and affordable version of the film with a license for unlimited school and community screenings. If they make their goal of $50,000, they will gift the film to 1,000...
The Corporation
16 min
For us to survive as a species we have to understand what money is doing to us, and how we can address these issues. This is the overview video explaining what the problem with money is and to propose the solution.
8 min
What students most need, high schools seem almost designed to thwart.
5 min
Por que será que não parecemos capazes de nos ajustar ao ambiente físico sem o destruir? Por que será que, de certa forma, isso como cultura, representa, de uma forma única, a lei dos retornos decrescentes? Que o nosso sucesso é um fracasso?
26 min
Is the economy recovering, or is the system itself the problem? Economist and philosopher David Harvey on money; which he calls "the great corrupter". Professor David Harvey is one of the world's leading Marxist thinkers and most prolific writers on class warfare, capitalism...
59 min
This 60-minute version of the original 88-minute 2012 documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, Final Edition (ESO) was broadcast in 2012 on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) in the USA. It was streamed on PBS national website as a result, and subsequently...
From Boing Boing with meme-love. You're welcome.
Xeni Jardin
104 min
A glimpse into the mind of a sociopath... who just happened to be the United States Secretary of Defense leading up to and during the country's two longest wars (Iraq and Afghanistan).
5 min
A short documentary about water in Russia. Production and postproduction took about 6 months. Part of the film was shot on remote locations like mountains, deserts, etc. so sometimes it was a challenge to bring all heavy gear there. The part about water shortages was shot 150...
4 min
The NRA has been tremendously successful. It now seems a bit lost. Our video describes the path it can take to best serve itself and the country.
2 min
Howard Zinn reflects upon social activism in an excerpt from the film ReGENERATION.
9 min
How much energy do we use, and how much energy could renewables provide? References: MacKay, D.J.C. (2009). Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air. Cambridge, England: UIT Cambridge Ltd. UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department. (2014). Energy Scales Table. Retrieved from...
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Remember Goodnight Moon, the children’s book about a young rabbit going to bed?
2 min
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history.
The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the...
2 min
The secret CIA drone war. People living under the drones and young dronepilots coming to terms with killing through joysticks. DRONE uncovers crucial secrets of the CIA drone program, and shows how drones have changed war and possibly our future. See the documentary that...
9 min
An extract from the 2014 documentary film “Drone” published by The Guardian shows military recruiters scanning video game fairs for the next generation of drone operators for often-lethal military activities in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Many people talk about Big Ag, but it’s hard to get across just how big “big” can be. This infographic lets you size up some of America’s biggest factory farms against a handful of world-famous landmarks – prepare to be staggered.
CIWF
So what are the super-rich: are they bastards? Are they, as Hemingway put it, just like us, but with "more money”? Are they going to save us? Destroy us? Are they corporate psychopaths who've channelled their murderous impulses into making money, not serial killing? Or are...
Jacques Peretti
The Red Herring of Social Mobility
4 min
Director: Josh Geoghegan
Camera Op: Max Cutting
Music: Arca - Failed, from the album Xen
Speech: Network, 1976
A film looking at mass electronic surveillance, prompted by the Edward Snowden leaks of June, 2013.
http://joshgeoghegan.com/watching
7 min
“The motivation of all my human rights work is love,” says Londoner and political campaigner of 42 years Peter Tatchell.
“I love other people, I love freedom, liberty, justice and equality. What keeps me going through all the ups and downs, gains and setbacks of campaigning...
“The motivation of all my human rights work is love,” says Londoner and political campaigner of 42 years Peter Tatchell.
Lucy Purdy
Disillusioned with work and feeling a nagging sense of discontent, this Londoner in his late twenties decided to take six months off. Instead of redecorating his flat or learning a new languag
Lucy Purdy
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On our trip to Kew Gardens in episode 3 we went to see Carlos Magdalena who works as a Senior Tropical Horticulturist.
Carlos has been working at Kew for 14 years. He has a unique passion for plants and is featured in Sir David Attenborough's Kingdom of plants on SKY 3D Blu...
5 min
We went to see the team at Positive News, to find out more about the paper and their vision for the future of positive news. Positive News is the world's first positive newspaper. They report on positive developments from across the world and take a solution-focused...
13 min
Credible Likeable Superstar role model & Catherine Bennett Welcome to our very first mini documentary about the brilliant Bryony Kimmings an award winning performance artist. Bryony took time out from her busy schedule and spoke to us about her show Credible Likeable...
On September 11th, 2013, hundreds of thousands of Chileans somberly marked the 40th anniversary of their nation’s September 11th terrorist event. It was on that date in 1973 that the Chilean military, armed with a generous supply of funds and weapons from the United States...
Andy Piascik
BOSTON, Jul 7, 2014 —On Saturday I went to one of the massive temples across the country where we celebrate our state religion. The temple I visited was Boston’s Fenway Park. I was inspired to go by reading
Chris Hedges
3 min
Henry Rollins profiles Prison Profiteers -six powerful institutions benefiting from locking up too many people for too long. There is a profit incentive to incarcerating people.