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How To Handle Our Inner Cynicism | Mr Rogers 13 min
I didn't know much about Mister Rogers nor his classic show "Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood" until I saw the Tom Hanks film, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood. Here's my thoughts on what it can teach us about the inner cynicism that we all fall prey to from time to time.
The Socialist Guide to Surviving in Capitalism 21 min
This might be controversial.
Frog and Toad: The Philosophy of Simple Living 29 min
In this video, I chat about the 1970s children’s book series Frog and Toad—written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel—including its helpful/wholesome themes and why it’s so cozy and memorable. - Quality Culture
In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be...
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains 21 min
A videoessay breaking down the masculinity in the apple tv show Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudekis as a football coach. This analysis considers the healthy masculinity of characters such as Roy Kent, the developing masculinity of Jamie Tartt, as well as touching on the toxic...
An Initiation to Game B 19 min
Follow the journey of a Game~B pioneer who—with the help of the three stewards—awakens to the realization that she must find her tribe and prevent humanity's current path toward self-termination by playing a new game.
I learned something important about myself at an event last month, the annual convergence of a men’s organization called the Sacred Sons. Though I was there as a speaker, I decided to experience it from the vantage point of a participant as well. That is how I found myself in...
Why It's So Hard To Imagine Life After Capitalism 19 min
There's a common expression, "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." When the current economic model is seen more as an immutable force of nature than a system created by humans in the recent past, it becomes much harder to imagine actually...
Libelinha Venture, Rewild The Future 11 min
When Xavier and Arantxa bought their land in Central Portugal they just wanted to have a little piece of selfsufficient heaven.. But two months after the purchase a huge wildfire raged over the area, turning everything black. Instead of giving up of and losing hope, drastic...
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman 9 min
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.
Inhabitants is an inspiring documentary about the work many of our indigenous relatives are doing today to restore our world.
ATLAS - An Artist's Journey To Draw Attention 30 min
Produced by Fishbulb Films, ATLAS follows ocean wildlife artist Olivier Leger as he embarks on his latest painting ‘Atlas’.
Jon Stewart On The Problem with Antisemitic Rhetoric and How Our Culture Talks about It 13 min
Jon Stewart gives his thoughtful take on the controversies surrounding Chappelle, Irving and West, and the impact of antisemitic rhetoric.
The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?' So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them. Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back!
Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? 80 min
Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first-ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering from clinical depression. His remarkable film follows three of the volunteers...
Cocaine Unwrapped 84 min
COCAINE UNWRAPPED tells the story of cocaine: coca farmers in Colombia, drugs mules in Ecuadorian prisons, cocaine factories in the Bolivian jungle, dealers on the streets of Mexico, law enforcement officials on the streets of Baltimore - and the everyday consumers around the...
A Little Movie About The Future (with My 5 Year Old Luna) 5 min
What if we imagine a more hopeful future?
We need a #HomesGuarantee 3 min
A national Homes Guarantee is a plan that will ensure every person in the U.S. (or any country) has safe, accessible, sustainable, and permanently affordable housing. It comes straight from people impacted by the nation's housing crisis and builds from a long tradition of...
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death 72 min
This critically acclaimed look at American war propaganda exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to show how presidents from both parties have relied on fear-driven political spin and craven media complicity to sell a succession of wars to the American people...
Tomorrow's Children 35 min
Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children's most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same...
Climate Collateral: How Military Spending Accelerates Climate Breakdown 3 min
Military spending and arms sales have a deep and lasting impact on the capacity to address the climate crisis, let alone in a way that promotes justice. Every dollar spent on the military not only increases greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also diverts financial resources...
The greatest conspiracies are open and notorious — not theories, but practices expressed through law and policy, technology, and finance. Counterintuitively, these conspiracies are more often than not announced in public and with a modicum of pride. They’re dutifully reported...
My name is Sami 4 min
A Short Film made during COVID-19 about Women Human Rights# Social Change#Women#domestic violence#domestic abuse Logline: During the COVID-19 pandemic Sami apparently calls a friend to tell her a tragic episode. Written, directed, performed by Daniela Lucato - Cinematography...
Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr 62 min
The experience of god inside oneself is often called Franciscan Mysticism. It's about becoming what you already are, and the profound wisdom St. Francis imparted for living in harmony with both ourselves as well as others around us can be seen throughout this lecture by...
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis 3000 min
Do you ever feel like we're swimming in an ocean of bullshit? This ground-breaking and viral 50-part series from John Vervaeke seeks to understand why this is so, and answer the question: what can we do about it?
How To Catch Bird Poachers / Volunteering in MALTA 19 min
I spent 2 weeks catching poachers and reporting them to police. I was on my own and I am not representing any organization or any group of people. All filming/editing/color/sound done by me. Wildlife Conservation Thank you for watching, please subscribe and take care of...
Mass Incarceration 16 min
Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges and prison yoga practitioners, Michael Huggins and Anneke Lucas discuss the economic incentives that feed and expand the U.S. incarceration system, the world's largest.
Occupation Inc. 42 min
A documentary about Spanish involvement in the Moroccan occupation and exploitation of Western Sahara, Africa's last colony, with Sahrawi human rights defenders Elghalia Djimi and Sultana Khaya.
The Laws of Capitalism 60 min
The laws of capitalism have elevated the interests of the few above that of the many, but we can rewrite the code and restore balance to society. In this series, Professor Katharina Pistor (@Columbia Law School) breaks down the history, process, institutions, and participants...
CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories In Major Newspapers 17 min
"The most important video of the year was filmed in 1983." - Edward Snowden "Please watch this detailed explanation from former CIA analyst Frank Snepp about how the newspapers and magazines you were taught to regard as mainstream and reliable have always eagerly served as...
I am a black woman in America. I am a woke black woman who has been woke before woke was cool. I also love America.
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons 47 min
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources 39 min
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion -- one that goes beyond "peak...
Restoring the World 35 min
Peoples of the world, this is your time and reality. If you are to prevent war and the breakdown of human civilization, you must build and restore the world—the ground beneath your feet, the clarity of your waters, the clarity of your air, the richness of your soil. You will...
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States 85 min
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world -- except the United States. The Occupation of the...
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism 47 min
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy 46 min
Economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor lays out a positive vision for rethinking our relationship to consumer goods in this accessible and timely analysis of the devastating ecological, social, and personal costs of mass consumerism.
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News 60 min
If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again. Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large...
The Crisis of the Cultural Environment: Media & Democracy in the 21st Century 25 min
Turning to issues of media policy, George Gerbner delivers a stinging indictment of the way the so-called "information superhighway" is being constructed. By examining the logic of globalization he shows the ineffectual nature of our present responses to deal with the urgent...
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 80 min
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire 76 min
Hijacking Catastrophe places the Bush Administration's original justifications for war in Iraq within the larger context of a two-decade struggle by neo-conservatives to dramatically increase military spending while projecting American power and influence globally by means of...
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property 52 min
In 1998, university professor Kembrew McLeod (Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa) made headlines when he successfully trademarked the phrase "freedom of expression" to call attention to the extremes of intellectual property law. But in the...
Framing An Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal 50 min
The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal, a journalist on Pennsylvania's death row in connection with the death of a police officer, had become by the late 1990s a global symbol of inequities in the U.S. judicial system. The mainstream media could no longer ignore it, but how would they...
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger 40 min
What distinguishing feature do the world's healthiest and happiest societies have in common? According to acclaimed author Richard Wilkinson, the answer is simple: they have far less income inequality than other societies. In this new film based on his international...
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood 66 min
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food to bogus educational products and the family car.
This guide is for people who are ambivalent about voting in elections. It directly addresses the objections of the "don't vote" position while finding common ground. To summarize the position of this guide: "Year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the...
Hi all. I'm thrilled to announce a new partnership with the legendary nonprofit film studio, the Media Education Foundation.
Activism today, call it engaged citizenship, ought to have more humility than it often does, and perhaps a bit more compassion and curiosity, too. No matter how great our understanding, we'll always have something valuable to teach and something valuable to learn.
In all 50 states and around the world, Campaign Nonviolence has been building a culture of active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction. We share skills and tools with which people can practice nonviolence toward themselves, one another...
Who Blew Up Nord Stream Pipelines? | A Mystery! 8 min
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Kantara & Ancient Indian Culture 11 min
Kantara & Ancient Indian Culture || Project SHIVOHAM
Huawei: The Most Evil Business In The World 24 min
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Apex Predator - The King of the Cats | Free Documentary Nature 51 min
Apex Predator - The King of the Cats | Wildlife Documentary Watch 'Cheetahs: Fastest Hunters in Africa' here: https://youtu.be/psPj_hqxp0I There are 41 members of the cat’s family, all are the embodiment of grace and power! Spectacular top predators that command our respect...
How the Chinese Communist Party Works 17 min
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Kabul: Rehab Hell I ARTE.tv Documentary 25 min
Since the Taliban retook Kabul in August 2021, the humanitarian situation has deteriorated considerably. Afghanistan remains the world's largest producer of opium and the country also has high rates of addiction. The Taliban is trying to rid the country of heroin addicts...
Nuclear Power and Propaganda: Welcome to North Korea 58 min
Immersion in North Korea, the most closed country in the world, about to become a nuclear power. At the head of the country, Kim Jong-un, an unpredictable leader.
Pro Choice Vs Pro Life: Choose your side  @Storm Cecile 5 min
#abortion #roevwade #roevwadeoverturned #spokenword #spokenwordpoem #prolife #prochoice Synopsis:
Jeremy Corbyn Destroys The Establishment 8 min
Corbyn sets the record straight.
Living in the Time of Dying 54 min
Living in The Time of Dying is an unflinching look at what it means to be living in the midst of climate catastrophe and finding purpose and meaning within it. Recognising the magnitude of the climate crisis we are facing, independent filmmaker Michael Shaw, sells his house...
Noam Chomsky Explains the Beauty of Concision 6 min
How corporate news inherently supports the status quo and prevents dissident perspectives through 'concision'.
Civil War 2.0 11 min
Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, explains the ongoing war between Antifa and the proudboys.
Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (2022) | Oracle Films | News Uncut 56 min
Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion shines a light on Covid-19 vaccine injuries and bereavements, but also takes an encompassing look at the systemic failings that appear to have enabled them. We look at leading analysis of pharmaceutical trials, the role of the MHRA in...
Men, A Few Reasons Why You Need To Vote Pro-Choice! 1 min
What if you were FORCED by your government to give birth? Men commit to registering to vote, voting pro-choice to fully stand with women (sisters, aunts, friends, daughters) to control their own body, to make their own personal choices, to have the freedom to control their...
Why There's No Such Thing as a Good Billionaire 21 min
Adam Conover breaks down why billionaire "charity" is terrible for the planet, and why we should stop swallowing their myths.
TraumaZone 350 min
An epic documentary by British director Adam Curtis illustrating in seven parts state and decline of the Soviet Union and the development in Russia 1985–1999 using material from the BBC archives.
Southern Discomfort 79 min
Southern Discomfort is a documentary film that examines white southerners' love affair with the Confederacy. It also examines the role that state governments in the south play in maintaining a distorted and racist mythology about the Civil War.
Deja Vu 19 min
This little video was made in 2004 to simply encourage people to think about the rhetoric of war, militarism, imperialism, and who we are as a nation.
Diaspora Babes 30 min
Shanice and Hind are Diaspora Babes. Born and raised in Europe to African parents, their identity has always been in a state of limbo as they have been exposed to conflicting cultures and have had to navigate black and brown womanhood in a white world. This experimental...
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public 32 min
The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible interview, Professor Justin Lewis demonstrates the way in which polling data are themselves used...
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom 45 min
For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of millions of students. Meanwhile dwindling federal, state, and local funding for education...
Capitalism Hits The Fan 57 min
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style...
Blood and Oil 52 min
Blood and Oil offers a riveting look at how U.S. efforts to control the global flow of fossil fuels has led to endless war, alliances with authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia, and the undermining of democratic movements around the world.
Advertising & The End of The World 47 min
Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In The Name of Charity 96 min
Filmed over three years, the documentary charts the extraordinary creation of charity a in the UK and The Gambia. WYCE was the single shared dream of Hilary and Keith Walker, who used every avenue to feed the growth of their education project in the Gambia, including selling...
Your vote for a healthy planet x 2 min
We are on a mission to speed up UK government action on the climate and nature. Will you join us?
Growing Pains: the Ecological Cost of an Insatiable Economy 47 min
'Growing Pains'  is the title for a short edit (47min) of the award-winning documentary 'System Error'. A look at the global and political obsession with economic growth and the ecological and humanitarian consequences.
We Need A Library Economy 27 min
The library has been a long-standing institution in our society, but what if we applied its philosophy more broadly? Let's imagine what it would mean to realize the possibilities of this proto-socialist concept and reintroduce free access to the commons through a library...
Bring a Farm Back to Life 2 min
Help us to get our sixth site – Maesgwyn Isaf -  up and running. With your support we can make this farm ready to welcome new entrant farmers to work this land in an agroecological way, building on the legacy of Jenn and Stuart Carter who gifted this farm to us. Maesgwyn...
Don't Tell Me to Just Breathe 6 min
This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the...
Liz Truss: The Oligarch's Prime Minister | George Monbiot 11 min
How To Make Communist Propaganda 18 min
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Why Billionaires Won't Save Us 15 min
In this video essay, I look at why billionaires won't save us from climate change. Specifically, I look at how the elite philanthropy of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk function as more of a billionaire preservation of wealth and self than as an act of altruism.
We Don’t Need the CIA | The Chris Hedges Report 34 min
Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe.
Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation 32 min
”A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy” – Don Smith, Kiss the Ground
Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL 2 min
Acclaimed journalist Dave Zirin of The Nation magazine tackles the politics of manhood, militarism, nationalism, and race in the NFL, America's most popular and influential sports league. ________________
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales 3 min
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
I have a very friendly relationship with Adam Bendell, who is very deeply involved in the world of impact investment and who has also been very interested in the work I am doing around gift economy. Over the years, he has come to events of mine and we have had some very...
If you judge that the world is dominated by the American, Russian, Chinese or European empire, you are completely wrong. The real (silent and invisible) empire is that of the corporations (giant companies and banks) that today control practically all fields of human activity...
Have You Seen This Chevron Ad? 2 min
Nothing is more precious than life.
Why the Suburbs Are Terrible for Us (and the Planet) 18 min
In this video essay, I look at why the suburbs are so terrible for people and the planet. Specifically, I look at the racist history of the suburbs in the United States in order to understand how the suburbs came about. The suburbs have a dark history of white supremacy and...
Former British Soldier Exposes The Monarchy 10 min
Welcome to the Mafia.
Honest Government Ad | Visit Brazil 4 min
The Brazilian Government has made a tourism ad ahead of the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
How the Rich REALLY Cause Climate Change 21 min
In this video essay, I look at how the rich really cause climate change. Specifically, I look at how the focus on the richest people in the world's consumption habits (i.e. our obsession with Taylor Swift's jet emissions) distracts us from how they make their money in the...
Time For Left To Admit Boys & Men Are In CRISIS and For Right to Accept We Shouldn't "Go Back" | Breaking Points 20 min
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author and policy expert Richard Reeves to better understand the crisis facing boys and men he tackles in his new book. A refreshing interview with zero culture war BS.
A Very FOX & Friends Presidency 120 min
An assemblage of archival material studying the strange, intimate relationship between the 45th President and his favorite morning talk show.
The Myth of Normal: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture 42 min
In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, just out, called "The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture."
AWAKE: A Dream From Standing Rock 90 min
AWAKE tells the dramatic story of the historic #NODAPL native-led peaceful resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, which captured the world's attention as one of the biggest stories of 2016.
The Scariest Climate Science Paper I've Ever Read? 12 min
This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain elements of the climate system, such as excess melting of the Greenland ice sheet...
When Trees Meet Buildings 12 min
Architects, engineers and developers are creating increasingly greener structures - and doing it in a more literal way than ever before.
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