A Cloud Never Dies | Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (2022)

A new biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by actor Peter Coyote, A Cloud Never Dies weaves together original film and photographic archives, telling the story of a humble young Vietnamese monk and poet whose wisdom and compassion were forged in the...

28 min

Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor

Sonya explores the impact of calling out and calling in people who have caused harm. She offers us a third alternative - “calling on”. We often think that discerning someone’s intent is instinctual when it is just not the case. Sonya proposes that those who are the source of...

18 min

Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol (2021)

The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was perhaps the most widely documented act of political violence in history. The New York Times obtained, analyzed and mapped out thousands of cellphone videos, police bodycam recordings and internal police audio to provide the most...

41 min

Freedom of Mind - The Root of the Social Gospel

What we need then for the social gospel to become a reality is more of a collective awakening, with more and more people becoming free of their lesser views and motivations.

Jason.espada

King In The Wilderness (2018)

King in the Wilderness chronicles the final chapters of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, revealing a conflicted leader who faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. While the Black Power movement saw his nonviolence as weakness, and...

112 min

The Creative Genius of the Extinction Symbol Explained

Here’s the story of how Extinction Rebellion's symbol spread around the world and became an icon in just a few years.

4 min

Wake Up Child - A Short Film on Intimacy with Nature

In these times of great transitions, Mother Earth speaks to us in a call for empowerment and greater intimacy with Her as a way to a Regenerative Future. This is an invitation to join the movement for a Transformative Culture, a culture where being part of Nature is our...

7 min

A Radical Approach to Psychedelics and Mental Health

The so-called psychedelic renaissance is here. Proponents claim that the drugs can alleviate an array of psychological suffering. But while they try to gain medical acceptance, they ignore the structural factors that cause suffering in the first place. We need a revolutionary...

Mike Pappas and Dimitri Mugianis

The Field of Peace

John Perkins once told me a story of bringing a group to have an audience with the Dalai Lama. A woman asked him, “Is it important to pray for peace?” The Dalai Lama said, “Yes, praying for peace is very good, but if that is all you do you are wasting your time.”

Charles Eisenstein

Why We Need Climate Hope

Radical climate hope, explained.

12 min

Reunion Is Possible When We Put Healing above Victory

I read a story the other day about a couple in Germany. They had enjoyed a harmonious marriage for more than 20 years until the time of Covid, when each adopted beliefs directly opposed to the other. Their arguments became more and more violent, until last year they split up.

Charles Eisenstein

How Feel Good Stories Let A Broken System Off The Hook

We've all seen those "heartwarming" stories about kids with cancer selling lemonade to pay for their chemo, or janitors being gifted a car because they've walked ten miles to work every day for twenty years, or all the other sugar-coated dystopian failures of our capitalist...

21 min

How To Overthrow The Illuminati | A Video Guide with a Twist

Illuminati Theory is a conspiracy theory often used to explain the corruption that pervades the systems that dominate us. But is it a useful or accurate explanation? Or is there a better alternative? The truth is out there. Let's find it. - Saint Andrewism

34 min

Whitewashing 101: How To Rewrite Black History

"It's Black History Month, so it's about time we talked about the recuperation of Black radicals like Dr. King and Nelson Mandela. Everyone and their mother likes to claim MLK as their own, and use his words as a rhetorical weapon, but what did he actually believe? This one...

22 min

A Gathering of the Tribe | POWERFUL Short Film by Charles Eisenstein

"This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to me, it is a true story. Whether actually true or metaphorically true, it doesn’t matter. It...

10 min

Together We Grow (2022)

“This beautiful film is the perfect antidote to the cynical narrative that says people are inherently selfish... This film will melt your heart. Guaranteed.” – Rob Hopkins, author; co-founder Transition Network

39 min

How to Convert a Business into a Worker-Owned Cooperative

Cooperatives are a great way to bring democracy into the workplace. They can either be built from scratch or by converting existing businesses into worker-owned cooperatives. For retiring business owners as well as entrepreneurs, selling a business to employees is a way to...

Cat Johnson

Prime Farmland: The Fight to Stop a Mega-Sized Industrial Park in Rural Indiana (2020)

This documentary film follows residents, farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a 7,200 acre mega-sized industrial park planned in rural Indiana.

39 min

HAMBI - Fight For Hambach Forest | Vimeo on Demand (2019)

Transparent Film / ZDF - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel / Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg

84 min

Your "Carbon Footprint" Is A Scam

If you get tired of being told that climate change is all your fault because you eat meat, don't use paper straws, or drive a car, this video is for you. While there are things we can all do to reduce our personal greenhouse gas emissions, the idea of the "individual carbon...

18 min

How Capitalism Destroys Radical Movements

Movements like Black Lives Matter often start out as radical demands for change, but somewhere along the way they get consumed, defanged, and turned into meaningless symbols. How does this happen?

20 min

A Fistful of Rubbish ($1) (2019)

A Western environmental documentary, "A Fistful of Rubbish" is set in the Tabernas Desert in Spain - Europe's only desert. An area known for being the backdrop of many famous Western films, sadly is being trashed. But now, with the help of some locals, an unexpected cowboy is...

14 min

Six Ways to Find Your Courage During Challenging Times

Courage doesn’t have to look dramatic or fearless. Sometimes it looks more like quiet perseverance.

Amy L. Eva

Three Sisters, Women of High Degree (2015)

Three Sisters, Women of High Degree is the result of 7 years of collaboration and filmed conversations between three Yimardoowarra Marninil, Nyikina women from the Fitzroy River, Lucy Marshall, Jeannie Warbie, and Anne Poelina, and French-Australian filmmaker Magali McDuffie.

48 min

On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories (2022) (trailer)

On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories is a new documentary which will be released in 2022: watch this space for more information!

1 min

System Fail #9 - Chile: the Frontline Against Neoliberalism (2021)

CW: Includes discussion about sexual assault, torture, and scenes of police brutality. English and Spanish, with hard-coded English subtitles.

32 min

Thich Nhat Hanh Was One of the Great Spiritual and Activist Teachers of Our Time. Rest in Love, Dear Brother!

Beloved teacher, activist, and Zen Buddhist master, Thich Nhat Hanh, has died peacefully at 95.

Tim Hjersted

Buddhist Monk and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Dies at 95

"He inspired so many good people to dedicate themselves to working for a more just and compassionate world."

Jessica Corbett

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)

The Third Harmony tells the story of nonviolence, humanity’s greatest (and most overlooked) resource. "I am exhilarated and grateful to the filmmakers for bringing forth such a fine gift for the future of life on Earth. Hurray! and deep bows." - Joanna Macy, deep ecologist...

44 min

A Temple of This Earth: Moving Beyond Redemptive Violence

(This essay is the final installment of a series. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,

Charles Eisenstein

The Worst Thing (2019)

How do you move past the worst thing to ever happen in your life? In 1985, Kathleen lost her brother Eddie, an American soldier, at the hands of the Red Army Faction (RAF), a German leftist terrorist organization. Now, decades later, she decides to seek out the group...

85 min

An Intimate Discourse with Visionaries of The Great Turning (2021)

Leading visionaries of The Great Turning respond to key questions relevant to the challenges of our times:

93 min

The Importance Of Revolutionary Optimism

While it's often easy to fall into doomerism, remaining dedicated, principled, and optimistic is critical to the success of any movement. Let's talk about revolutionary optimism and what it can do for us.

15 min

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

Join Bill Pfeiffer as he discusses his journey to embracing an indigenous world view and how this approach can help save our planet. This video is a production of Lake Erie Institute and is made possible by the generous support of Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.

37 min

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.

Films For Action

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

The pandemic has stress tested all our institutions, especially those we have relied on for truth seeking and sensemaking. It's deepened the chasm between mainstream and alternative, consensus and contrarian.

88 min

Rundown Apartments Reborn as Food-Forest Coliving Agritopia (2021)

In 2007, Ole and Maitri Ersson bought the rundown Cabana apartment complex in the city and immediately began to de-pave parking spaces to make space for what today is a huge permaculture coliving space and urban food forest. Today, the Kailash Ecovillage has 55 residents who...

55 min

How We Can Make Solarpunk A Reality

Solarpunk is a vision of the future that we can implement today. Here are just a few ways to get started!

23 min

Joanna Macy: Climate Crisis as a Spiritual Path

This 20 minute interview with Joanna Macy will help answer an essential question: How are we going to live our lives fully, with inner peace and courage (and even joy) as we confront a world that is destroying itself?

20 min

Stuart Hall: Through The Prism of an Intellectual Life (trailer)

The Media Education Foundation presents Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life A Lecture by Stuart Hall In this recently discovered, newly restored video of one of Stuart Hall's most famous lectures, Hall speaks with dazzling precision about the...

2 min

Why "Terrorism" Is A Dangerous Word

If you've been keeping up with online news, you may have seen coverage of a Navy anti-terrorism training document that equated socialists and anarchists with neo-nazis. Even if you don't consider yourself a member of the political left, it should be obvious that this is an...

19 min

An Urgent Message for Humanity

Climate disruption is human-caused and, while that's hard to acknowledge for some, we take a hopeful approach: if we caused it, we can do something about it.

4 min

Despite Our Despair, There's a Reality Worth Fighting For

Those who are enduring injustice, exploitation, and oppression—whether people, animals, or ecosystems—need us to believe that wrongs can be righted and to take action accordingly.

Zoe Weil

Iraq Vet Disrupts George W. Bush Speech, Sept. 19 2021

Iraq War veteran and Empire Files producer Mike Prysner disrupted a speech by George W. Bush in Beverly Hills on Sept. 19, 2021.

3 min

Not Going Quietly (trailer)

Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.

3 min

The Big Scary "S" Word (trailer)

Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.

2 min

Death by Pollution (2021)

Do we all breathe the same air? Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah was a nine-year-old girl who lived in south-east London and died in 2013. The cause of death was listed as air pollution, now her mother is fighting to make clean air a human right. This Novara Doc was made by black &...

10 min

Why Big Oil Loves to Talk about Your Carbon Footprint

Everybody keeps telling us to cut our carbon footprints. So how guilty should I feel about my personal emissions? And what's Big Oil got to do with it? We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way.

13 min

Why your Carbon Footprint is a Scam

Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained.

11 min

Big Oil Coined ‘Carbon Footprints’ to Blame Us for Their Greed. Keep Them on the Hook.

Climate-conscious individual choices are good – but not nearly enough to save the planet. More than personal virtue, we need collective action

Rebecca Solnit

The Misguided Fixation on Racial Disparities — Adolph Reed & Walter Benn Michaels

On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels discuss the trouble with disparity and how antiracism has come to play a role in upholding capitalism in the twenty-first century.

21 min

A Plague of Gods: Cultural Appropriation and the Resurgent Left Sacred

A little over six years ago now, I received a demand which asked me to use my influence and this publishing platform to help denounce someone. I read the demand with curiosity and a bit of worry. The message stated in rather vague language that the sender had been asked by...

Rhyd Wildermuth

Turning Eco-Anxiety into Eco-Action | Our Broken Planet

At times it can be overwhelming to contemplate the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, from the climate crisis to biodiversity loss. The hurdles in the way of a sustainable future can sometimes feel insurmountable - but each of us is capable of making a difference.

63 min

MLK/FBI (2021)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy...

107 min

Climate Change Babies (2021)

Climate Change Babies is an inspiring film for trailblazing parents around the world. During the Covid-19 pandemic, courageous and articulate moms, parents and grandparents from British Columbia , Canada are organizing and exchanging profound information about climate change...

45 min

Killer Mike: Amazon Using Slave Labor to Enrich the Richest Man in the World

Killer Mike delivered a powerful speech at a rally for Alabama Amazon warehouse workers who are fighting to unionize. If their efforts succeed, it could be the spark that ignites successful Amazon union drives across the country.

8 min

The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)

This 36-minute documentary follows the lives of 5 young explorers on their journey through the 5-week Ecovillage Design Education program in Switzerland, which navigates today's challenges as opportunities to build a regenerative future for all.

36 min

How Community Organising Could Change the Game for the British Left | Chardine Taylor Stone

It could transform politics.

8 min

Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Breathing in a Toxic Environment | john a. powell

Bridging or breaking? That is the sharp choice we face today as a society and as individual citizens. john a. powell, Director of the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, has long been one of our nation’s leading and most original thought leaders. He has delved...

18 min

So You're Still Being Publicly Shamed

The Right wants you to believe that a coddled, overly sensitive left is propping up cancel culture. But punitive, hyper-surveillant ways of interacting online are built into the structure of privately owned social media companies, and they’re practiced across the political...

Ben Burgis

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