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John Lennon's "Imagine" covered by A Perfect Circle, and video edited by Peter Joseph, who made the video as an introduction to Zeitgeist Day 2010. Remix culture at its best!
5 min
Examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women and encourages viewers to consider how these narratives shape individual and cultural attitudes about sexuality.
Illustrated with hundreds of up-to-date images Dreamworlds 3 offers a unique and...
5 min
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award.
12 min
An American trends analyst told a Russian news service recently that in 2011, young people from industrial societies around the world will unite on the Internet to overthrow increasingly ineffective elements of globalism that have driven their economies into depression.
Stephen C. Webster
As an American expat living in the European Union, I’ve started to see America from a different perspective.
Democrats Ramshield
THE EVILNESS OF POWER examines the ways in which power and hierarchy affect individuals, society, and the world at large. It's possibly the best film on the subject ever made. Produced by Jonathan Shockley.
92 min
A lively and no-nonsense lecture by Jacque Fresco, speaking about the Venus Project, held in London in October 2009.
55 min
In this brief interview, Jerry Mander, author of "In the Absence of the Sacred" and "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television", describes the drawbacks of television. The reasons might not be what you'd expect.
9 min
The Story of Cosmetics examines the pervasive use of toxic chemicals in our everyday personal care products, from lipstick to baby shampoo. Produced by Free Range Studios and hosted by Annie Leonard, the eight-minute film reveals the implications for consumer and worker...
8 min
The first Howard Zinn Memorial Lecture is delivered by veteran journalist, Bill Moyers. Citing Zinn as his inspiration, Moyers focuses on the challenges facing our democracy. He decried what he says has been a 30-year trend toward plutocracy, where the rich get richer at the...
116 min
Some of us have known this for a long time. Some of us just found out and some will find out very soon. There are few, if any, elected officials who really care about our interests unless we're one of the few thousand ultra rich who control Congress and the White House.
Michael Collins
Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are...
2 min
Have you ever fallen into a black hole of comparison shopping? You’re looking for a new digital camera, for instance. You head over to Cnet.com and read some reviews of various cameras, watch the video demos, identify the model you want. Then perhaps you employ Google’s...
Jocelyn K. Glei
At the height of the health care reform debate last fall, Bill Sammon, Fox News' controversial Washington managing editor, sent a memo directing his network's journalists not to use the phrase "public option."
Ben Dimiero
The social psychology of conformity affects us all, but there are ways to maintain our independence, as explained in this animated short.
10 min
We've been told again and again that sports and politics don't mix, that games are just games and athletes should just "shut up and play." But according to Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin, this notion is just flat-out wrong. In Not Just a Game, the powerful new...
6 min
In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of...
9 min
To learn more about the film and upcoming screenings, visit www.theharvestmovie.com
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The future of the news is upon us! Simply put, the internet has taken over. With newspapers, magazines, television networks, and radio shows distributing their content online, you as a consumer now have a definite voice in the discussion of what content is favored by these...
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
11 min
Peter Joseph's 2nd Lecture: "Where are we going?" at Maharishi University, Nov. 15th 2009. The first lecture in this series was titled "Where are we now?"
121 min
As opponents of gays serving openly in the military parse through the Defense Department's survey results of more than 115,000 servicemen and women and their families to find some shred of justification for officially sanctioned bigotry, it is worth taking note of this...
The Baltimore Sun Editorial Staff
As part of the "It Gets Better Project", gay and lesbian employees of Pixar, Apple, Google, and the White House share their stories of growing up in a homophobic country. Many faced depression and considered suicide but are now living successful, happy lives. Celebrities...
8 min
An analysis of 14 years of FBI statistics shows that gay people are the most targeted minority. Gays are almost twice as likely to be attacked in a violent hate crime as Jews or African Americans, and almost four times as much as Muslims. Columnist Dan Savage, of the "It...
5 min
Started in late 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement exists as the communication and "Activist Arm" of an organization called The Venus Project. The Venus Project was started many decades ago by Social/Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco and his life's work has been to address and...
"The Empathic Civilization" is one of the biggest ideas of the 21st century. The arrival of this era will be monumental. Jeremy Rifkin explains.
11 min
Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address urging the poor deal effectively with the right wing's grip on power, counter their fascistic racial...
78 min
Little Mountain is the oldest public housing site in Vancouver, home to families and a rich community for over 60 years. What was once public land has been sold to private developers who plan to evict all of the tenats and demolish the site.
The Steenhuisen family have lived...
13 min
Rather than follow the customary American dream, Tammy and Logan sold their home and car, and moved to a bikeable/walkable neighborhood in Sacramento, California. After reading Derrick Jensen’s writings, this couple used Your Money or Your Life as a means to get out of debt...
27 min
Are you *officially* unemployed? The reported rate actually excludes millions of jobless Americans.
2 min
FOX News is on a witch hunt. Their goal is simple: to destroy the Obama administration and the progressive movement. They've already forced Van Jones out of the White House. They've badgered Congress into passing unconstitutional measures to defund ACORN. Glenn Beck actually...
6 min
This well-researched, low-fi documentary reveals how the mass media has standardized white people as the “social norm” for general society.
Through the globalization and centralization of the “white” media and its constant propagation of repetitive images depicting whites in...
75 min
The Most Hated Family in America is a TV documentary written and presented by the BBC’s Louis Theroux about the family at the heart of the Westboro Baptist Church. At the heart of the documentary is the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka...
3 min
A touching testimony given by an 86 year-old for Maine's marriage equality bill on April 22, 2009.
4 min
On the 40th anniversary of the Internet, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC tells the story of the effect it is having on our society as seen through the eyes of the greatest Internet pioneer you've never heard of, visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director, Ondi Timoner (DIG!), documented...
3 min
While Fox News cameras covering the so-called 9.12 Project on the National Mall lurched away from signs morphing President Barack Obama's face into Adolph Hitler's, I zoomed in. Histrionics and manufactured paranoia were hard to avoid at the massive September 12 anti-Obama...
7 min
As of today, 20 advertisers have dropped Glenn Beck. This Media Matters video helps explain why.
1 min
Troy Davis just earned a retrial of his wrongful execution sentence. Do you know the #1 determinant of whether the defendant in a murder trial gets executed? The answer may surprise you. (Ps- this is satire)
2 min
All Power to the People! examines problems of race, poverty, dissent, and the universal conflict of the “haves versus the have nots”. U.S. government documents, rare news clips, and interviews with both ex-activists and former FBI/CIA officers, provide deep insight into the...
116 min
Writer-director Curtis Johnson seems to view compassionately the young militants who make up the loose network of public speakers, protest organizers, and lab-animal liberators the U.S. government has labeled the number one domestic terrorist threat. One activist notes that...
105 min
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares) that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom. It shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic...
177 min
The MPAA, a US lobbying organization for the movie industry, maintains a rating system first implemented in 1968. This system, with its age based content classification using letter grades G, PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 (formerly X), has become a cultural icon. But behind its...
2 min
Harvey Milk was the first openly-gay man to be elected to public office in the US in 1977. His most recognized speech, "You Cannot Live On Hope Alone," was given in 1978, shortly before he was assassinated. His words resonate particularly today as Californians debate a...
2 min
America is the only country in the industrialized world which does not provide universal health care. Initiatives providing free medical care and social services to the homeless and uninsured population in the United States are very few but are making a remarkable difference...
30 min
Slavery is officially banned internationally by all countries, yet despite this there are more slaves in the world today than ever before. In the four hundred years of the legal slave trade around 13 million people were shipped from Africa. Today there are an estimated 27...
88 min
Hat tip (H/T) to Marc Maron & Sam Seder of Air America Radio's Maron v. Seder Show for this hilarious and easily believable parody peeking into the minds of the Maverick & Co. Serriouslly!!!
1 min
Sunday former Secretary of State and Republican Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. It was a stunning blow to the McCain campaign, and a repudiation of the failed politics and ideology of a Republican Party that has fundamentally lost its...
7 min
As the US presidential campaign enters its final weeks, both the Republican and Democratic candidates are hitting the swing states.
But misconceptions and rumors abound and many voters have their facts about the candidates all wrong. Some believe that Democrat Barack Obama is...
2 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, Corporate America and others, concluding the advocation of a...
123 min
Think your boss is bad? This CEO thinks hand sanitizer is healthcare coverage and soda is an employee benefit. We all know something's out of whack when CEOs rake in hundreds of times what their employees earn, and workers get the boot just for talking about unions. It could...
3 min
Reverend Romal J. Tune addresses the National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis, June 7, 2008, presented by Free Press. It's an inspiring speech to uplift and strengthen our resolve. For more speakers, press coverage, and info, visit: http://www.freepress.net/conference
14 min
Inside USA - Avi Lewis travels to Arkansas and Alabama to look at the rise of race hate groups in America. Watch part 2 through the accompanying website link.
13 min
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a graph. Still, this low-fi video does a pretty good job.
3 min
You'll no doubt be hearing about this speech in the news, but before it gets distorted and sensationalized by the mainstream media in 10 second sound-bytes, I think it's worth it to hear this speech in full, from the speaker himself. Dealing with race in America with such...
37 min
A video directed by Karen Lum, adapted from the poem "Slip of the Tongue" written and performed by Adriel Luis.
Title courtesy of Upworthy.
4 min
This short satirical cartoon from Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine chronicles the history of the United States and its relationship with guns.
3 min
Demand Bill O'Reilly apologize to the "non-existent" veterans. Click the website link to take action.
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After summarizing the facts of deepening global climate chaos, Australian Kelly Tudhope notes that our psychological response is often overlooked. Feeling powerless, many people stay in denial. But if we acknowledge our feelings, we can find empowerment arising from our...
27 min
Michael Moore investigates the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. He looks into the causes for such violent crimes, focusing on guns as a symbol of both American freedom and its self-destruction.
2 min
Spoken word slam on the materialistic and self-destructive nature of modern mainstream rap music, exploited, packaged, and sold by mega media corporations.
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Most of you are aware that under the guise of "news" Fox has offered its viewers a steady stream of bias pertaining to social and political issues since its inception in 1996. From attacking Black America to pushing for war with Iran, from demonizing bloggers to distorting...
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Parents, friends, and teachers alike - talk to girls before the beauty industry does. A powerful and concise message that communicates the destructive effect the ad and beauty industry has on society.
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A short film focusing on how Dove is making efforts to help normal girls value their own beauty, and to increase their media literacy skills as they navigate the 24/7 360 degree saturation of the makes-you-feel-ugly industry. Er, that is, the beauty industry.
5 min
Jackson Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhere, needs to be understood as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. Tough Guise is the first educational video...
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It's no wonder our perception of beauty is so obscured. The fashion and hype industries will make bones out of us all.
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