Nonviolent Communication Basics

The Basics of Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg, Phd, is a recorded presentation of a 1-day workshop held in San Francisco, CA in April 2000. "The purpose of Nonviolent Communication is to help you learn what you already know how to do... but forget ...

185 min

No Internet Week

A documentary about addiction. Addiction of the digital kind.

13 min

The Raising of America (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

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 (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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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 (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)

Will you join the movement to unbreak our birth care system in the U.S.?

2 min

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

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 policies...

Randa Morris

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

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 current...

David Suzuki

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

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 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

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 (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

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

Do French Kids Have ADHD?

France's holistic, psychosocial approach to treating ADHD-type symptoms.

Marilyn Wedge

Grounded: a "Groundbreaking" Documentary About The Healing Power Of The Earth (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

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 (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 (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 (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

The Dirty Business Of Turning This Latino Farmworker Town Into A Toxic Wasteland

This is home to the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi and to shockingly high rates of childhood cancer, birth defects and miscarriages - two facts residents believe to be connected.

5 min

The Botany of Desire (2009)

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World is a 2001 nonfiction book by journalist Michael Pollan. Pollan presents case studies that mirror four types of human desires that are reflected in the way that we selectively grow, breed, and genetically engineer our...

76 min

Obamacare Premiums Look Good, But Medicare-For-All Would Be Better

New data shows that many will be paying less for private insuran

Jon Queally

Nuclear Crisis at Fukushima Could Spew Out More Than 15,000 Times as Much Radiation as Hiroshima Bombing

We are now within two months of what may be humankind’s most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Harvey Wasserman

Dear Marijuana: A Goodbye Letter

Hi. It’s me, Alexandra. I know I’ve been distant lately. I’ve been avoiding you. After talking things through one night with a friend, I woke up and decided I was leaving you. I’m 26. We had a good nine year run, but I’m saying goodbye. I didn’t just want to up and dump...

Alexandra Moga

If You're Young, This Is The Only Obamacare Infographic You Need. I Obamadare You To Click On It.

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a comic strip that answers your questions over Obamacare!

Rajiv Narayan

What If You Stopped Going Outside?

If you spend most of your day inside, this is for you!

3 min

Circumcision: The Whole Story

Circumcision: The Whole story - is an informational video about the culture of circumcision. It explores the historical origins, the physical function of the foreskin, and commonly believed myths and scientific truths.

20 min

30 Things You Should Do Right Now

1. Floss. Shut up about blood and it getting stuck in your teeth or a general fear of dentistry and just floss.

Ben Branstetter

Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness

People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity. For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000...

Emily Esfahani Smith

Marijuana: It's Safer Than Alcohol

Well, it is.

1 min

Without Saying a Word This 6 Minute Clip From Samsara Will Make You Speechless

Can you put this video into words? It's a clip from the phenomenal documentary Samsara, directed by Ron Fricke, who also made Baraka. If you're interested in watching Samsara, you can

6 min

Let's Talk about a Real Healthcare System (And, No, I Don't Mean "Obamacare")

Let’s talk about healthcare. I don’t mean debating the Affordable Care Act. I mean healthcare, as in: If everyone needs healthcare, guarantee that everybody gets it. I know, when it comes to healthcare, it’s easy to get into a debate for or against Obamacare. But we...

Deborah Burger

Werner Herzog Made a Documentary About Texting While Driving. And It's Haunting.

"From One Second to the Next," the rather unlikely film above, came together when AT&T approached the legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog and asked if he would direct a series of short films warning people about the dangers of texting while driving. "What AT&T...

34 min

Laughology (2010)

Laughter... Plato Hated it. The Bible discouraged it. The school you went to probably banned it. The first ever feature documentary about the subject, Laughology is a "screamingly funny," groundbreaking odyssey into why we laugh and those who would stop us.

66 min

Coming Off Psych Drugs: A Meeting of the Minds (trailer)

In June of 2012, twenty-three people came together to discuss the subject of coming off psychiatric drugs. We were psychiatric survivors, therapists, mental health consumers, family members, and activists, united by a passion for truth-telling. More than half of us had...

3 min

Monsanto Protection Act May Soon be Repealed Thanks to Activism

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States Senator is expected to try and repeal that law after mounting pr

Anthony Gucciardi

Simply Rob

Simply Rob is a portrait of Bronx based Poet and Activist Rob Vassilarakis. Estranged from his family when he was just a teenager because of his sexuality, Rob fell into a world of self hatred and drug abuse. In 1993 he was diagnosed with HIV, he was 22 years old. After years...

14 min

Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)

Breast cancer affects the lives of millions of Americans every day, and the disease has become a hot-button issue for corporations seeking to support a cause. But where does all of the money raised in the name of breast cancer actually go?

97 min

Development in Bad Waters (2013)

Many of us still don’t know the difference between charity and development. While the total amount of foreign aid to Bangladesh since its independence is nearing $50 billion, the income gap has continued to increase. The inequalities persist in a range of human living...

61 min

They Say You Are What You Eat, In This Case It's A Pissed Off Talking Sausage

A hungry young man gets served some serious food for thought when a sausage starts telling his dramatic life story. What he hears will change his life forever.

2 min

The Honest Coca-Cola Obesity Ad Coca-Cola Doesn't Want You to Watch

This 'honest ad' tells the truth about Coca-Cola's popular sugar beverages.

2 min

In Organic We Trust (2013) (trailer)

We can no longer stomach our food system. It's killing more and more Americans and costing billions in healthcare. 78% of Americans eat organic food, because they think it's healthier. But is organic really better for us or just a marketing scam?

2 min

Hey Corporate America, THIS Is What Happens When You Piss Off a Rapper And His Friends

Food Fight is the story of a kid who lives in a world where the food at the local corner store is killing his neighborhood -- literally.

6 min

The Nightmare World of GM Mice

This film is released along with Animal Aid's report Science Corrupted: the nightmare world of GM mice. For the first time, they reveal the true scale and nature of the GM mouse revolution. Disease research using GM mice is causing terrible animal suffering and it is failing...

3 min

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT CHANGE visits thriving cooperative businesses in the U.S. and Spain, sharing on-the-ground...

70 min

Open-Source Healthcare

The healthcare industry is a textbook example of what Ivan Illich (in Tools for Conviviality) called a “radical monopoly.” The central function of the government’s “safety” and “consumer protection” regulations, in most cases, is either to exclude competing providers of a...

Kevin Carson

King Corn (2007) ($3)

KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom -- corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, two college...

90 min

The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods (2011)

For thousands across the UK, the new year usually means a new diet. But it's the supermarket rather than the health club that many are turning to. The low fat food industry is worth two billion pounds and there are more reduced calorie ready meals sold in January than at any...

57 min

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