When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

No person or group of people is ever one thing. Inside each of us are a thousand diverse aspects - evolving dimensions.

Tim Hjersted · 92,967 views · 96%

From Education to Economics: These Are The 40 Best Social Change Documentaries You Have to See

Over the last 7 years, Films For Action has been cataloging an online library of the best social change films that can be watched free online. Opting for quality over quantity, the site...

Tim Hjersted · 47,523 views · 92%

105 min

Fat Head (2009)

While most people saw the documentary Super Size Me as an expose of the fast food industry, comedian and former health writer Tom Naughton saw it as a dare: He'd show that you could lose...

29,502 views · 80%

30 min

Seeds of Freedom (2012)

Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into a powerful commodity...

28,830 views · 90%

A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress

This is the first chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

Howard Zinn · 27,814 views · 96%

33 min

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union...

21,072 views · 75%

Is Greed All That's Wrong with Capitalism?

Is greed all that's wrong with capitalism? No. It is not enough to attack capitalists for being greedy, although this is a common tactic. I hope to explain why in this short essay.

James Herod · 16,576 views · 100%

8 min

The Story of Bottled Water

The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day) employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than...

The Story of Stuff Project · 12,867 views · 94%

58 min

Elizabeth Warren: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class

If the average family of four in 1970 had only one income earner, how is it that the two-income family of today has more debt? Using data from the U.S. Commerce Department...

University of California Television (UCTV) · 12,833 views · 88%

34 min

The Plastic Cow (2012)

A 34-minute documentary about animal rights, the film looks at the impact of our almost complete dependence on plastic bags, which we use and discard carelessly every day, often to...

12,802 views · 75%

10 min

The Meatrix

Take the red pill and watch the critically-acclaimed, award-winning first episode of The Meatrix Trilogy. Join Meo as he goes on a journey into the "real world" to see the horrific truth...

mediathatmatters · 12,604 views · 89%

Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest

My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My father was a forest conservator, and my mother became a farmer after fleeing the tragic partition of India and Pakistan...

Vandana Shiva · 11,745 views · 100%

The Secret of Enough

First, the truth If you are naked, cold, and hungry, and somehow you get shelter, clothing, and food, you will feel better. Providing for these necessities creates a qualitative change...

Thom Hartmann · 10,131 views · 91%

23 Laws from Other Countries the US Should Consider Adopting

Traveling is a great way to learn about other cultures and ways of thinking. While most of our encounters with a host country’s legal system usually revolve around visas and Customs...

Svene Berlein · 9,741 views · 100%

Big Idea: Ecocity Economics

The ongoing economic crisis that began with the unraveling of wildly inflated real estate prices and the Wall Street derivatives bubble in 2007 and the crash into near depression in...

Richard Register · 8,953 views · 100%

48 min

Permaculture Paradise at Val and Eli's Garden!

Val and Eli take us on a tour of their magical permagarden in Jacksonville FL. They have created a wonderful, natural space filled with self-sustaining fruits, vegetables, herbs...

8,469 views · 75%

28 min

An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability

Tour Scott McGuire's "White Sage Gardens" in the back yard of his rental home -- a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, "How might a household produce and preserve...

peakmoment · 8,141 views · 75%

5 min

Greening the Desert

They laughed and said it couldn't be done... but sure enough, a group of permaculturist's were able to turn an area of desert into a lush garden that could support food and plants, using...

permares · 8,102 views · 88%

'Factory Farms' Aren't Farms: They Are Concentration Camps for Animals

In most state legislatures today, "off the wall" has become the political center, and bizarre bills are no longer unusual.

Jim Hightower · 6,097 views · 75%

15 Documentaries to Nourish the Brain and Heart (Free to Watch Online)

Films For Action · 5,960 views · 75%

4 min

How Congress Has Been Robbing Low-Wage US Workers since 1968

Not many Americans know that the value of the minimum wage has dropped significantly since its peak in 1968. One could have bought a grocery basket full of food with only one hour’s...

TIME · 5,527 views · 75%

28 min

BriarPatch Co-op - Building for the New Century

Manager Paul Harton welcomes us to the newly-built BriarPatch Co-op Natural Foods Community Market. It's built to qualify for LEED™ certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental...

peakmoment · 4,981 views · 50%

Meats: A Health Hierarchy

In case you've not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can.

James Hamblin · 4,851 views · 75%

5 min

Propeller Sustainability Series, "SHELTER: Part 1"

In a new video series on sustainability, filmmaker Alexia Prichard focuses on shelter, food, water, waste & community. In this first installment we meet architect and author Sarah...

Alexia Prichard · 4,821 views · unrated

28 min

Sustainable Connections - Transforming a Community Through Local Business

Michelle Long shows us how a highly successful local independent business network has transformed Bellingham, WA, while inspiring other communities. From an initial "Think Local First"...

peakmoment · 4,684 views · unrated

Development in the Ecological Age

Do you live in a developed nation or a developing nation? If your nation has an extensive system of roads, rail and airports, if it is fully electrified, if it is mostly urban and...

Charles Eisenstein · 4,410 views · 100%

Worker Cooperatives: Retooling the Solidarity Economy

Building A Solidarity Economy Under the cooperative model, workers own the business, reducing injustice because they have a stake in the community and because an individual will find it...

Sebastian A.B. · 4,111 views · 100%

3 min

Bringing It Home: a Documentary about Industrial Hemp (trailer)

Hemp is a misunderstood plant with compelling benefits for healthy homes, food, farmers, job creation and our environment. Industrial hemp is non-psychoactive and grown in thirty other...

4,015 views · 88%

27 min

Community Responses to Peak Oil

Peak oil educator and author Richard Heinberg discusses what communities can do to prepare for peak oil. He covers transportation, including a novel ride-sharing scheme, assessing...

peakmoment · 3,977 views · unrated

Monsanto Hates Democracy

Monsanto hates democracy because democracy doesn't work for Monsanto. Nine out of 10 of us want to know where Monsanto's been hiding the GMOs in our food and most of us wouldn't eat...

Alexis Baden-Mayer · 3,603 views · 75%

How to Create Abundant Cities

Is it enough for our lives, our economy, our cities to become “sustainable”? If being sustainable means no more than being able to maintain the status quo of strife and never having...

Wolfgang Hoeschele · 3,570 views · 100%

McDonald's Accidentally Served Up a Minimum Wage "McManifesto"

Marie Antoinette, meet Ronald McDonald. A lot

Richard Eskow · 2,849 views · 75%

An Outline of Benefits from a Lower Energy Civilization

The universe ultimately runs on an energy economy, not a market economy as the dominant economic ideology claims. Ecological damage is tied to energy use of any kind in our peculiar type...

Karl North · 2,803 views · unrated

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and...

Bruce E. Levine · 1,146,449 views · 91%

Do French Kids Have ADHD?

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

Marilyn Wedge · 201,624 views · 95%

52 min

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells...

93,374 views · 97%

76 min

Vegucated (2010)

Vegucated follows three people who, for six weeks, adopt a vegan diet and a new way of thinking about food. A FilmBuff Presentation.

37,941 views · 88%

2 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.

mercyforanimals · 33,050 views · 75%

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn is the author of many works including The Story of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond Civilization. His first book,

Daniel Quinn · 31,103 views · 92%

Why We Should Give Free Money to Everyone

London, May 2009. A small experiment involving thirteen homeless men takes off. They are street veterans. Some of them have been sleeping on the cold tiles of The Square Mile, the...

Rutger Bregman · 27,682 views · 95%

No Enemies

Without communication, no real understanding can be possible. But be sure that you can communicate with yourself first. If you cannot communicate with yourself, how do you expect to...

Thich Nhat Hanh · 26,321 views · 67%

2 min

McLibel (trailer)

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...

22,949 views · 85%

54 min

The Next Industrial Revolution (2002)

Chris Bedford and Shelley Morhaim made this award winning 56 minute long film on the sustainability revolution in materials and manufacturing. "The Next Industrial Revolution" tells the...

16,427 views · 42%

In This Epic Moment of Eco-Social Disruption, The World Is Seeing a Revolutionary Transformation

In this epic moment of radical environmental and social disruption, the world is experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation to becoming an ecologically literate and socially...

Kenny Ausubel · 13,708 views · 100%

90 min

Sugar: The Bitter Truth

Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough)...

University of California Television (UCTV) · 13,320 views · 88%

7 min

Root-Solution: Building the Ecocity

Richard Register discusses the concept of the Ecocity: an Ecocity is a human settlement that enables its residents to live a good quality of life while using minimal natural resources...

파워볼캡틴63 · 11,026 views · 56%

22 min

The Bottleneck. Peak Everything. The Great Turning. Whatever You Call It, It's the Big Enchilada

In the words of filmmaker Tom Shadyac, "The shift is hitting the fan." We're experiencing the dawn of a revolutionary transformation. This awkward 'tween state marks the end of...

Biggest Ideas · 10,564 views · 54%

The Revolution Has Begun. "The Shift Hits the Fan"

The Bottleneck. The Great Disruption. Peak Everything. The Great Turning.

Kenny Ausubel · 9,763 views · 100%

1 min

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (trailer)

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells...

9,750 views · 100%

36 min

Seeds of Sovereignty (2013)

As the world’s agriculture and food systems face a crisis of disappearing seed diversity, a new short film tells the story of how African farming communities and organisations are...

7,752 views · 83%

56 min

Our Seeds (2008)

"Our Seeds" addresses the problems of globalised food based on hybrids that require pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. The film shows how individuals and small groups have solved...

6,054 views · 75%

27 min

Calm Before the Storm

Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most...

peakmoment · 5,847 views · unrated

10 min

Whistle Blowers Try to Expose Health Concerns & Get Fired

A perfect example of both, why you can't trust big news organizations to tell you the truth, and why you should stick to organic food whenever possible. This clip is taken from the film...

kidwave1 · 5,840 views · 88%

11 min

Inner Climate Change

How do we change? How do we adapt our lifestyles to become resilient to the changes we are facing today?

Sattva reports · 5,170 views · 94%

2 min

GMO OMG (trailer)

Who controls the future of your food? GMO OMG explores the systematic corporate takeover and potential loss of humanity's most precious and ancient inheritance: seeds.

5,102 views · 83%

FBI Calls Half of Populace with 9/11 Doubts Potential Terrorists

The FBI is instructing local police departments and "communities against terrorism" to consider anyone who harbors "conspiracy theories" about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist, in a...

Ralph Lopez · 5,102 views · 88%

The Authoritarianism Of Elizabeth Warren

Throughout the US government “shutdown,” Democratic politicians have compared their Republican rivals to “anarchists” and argued that the “shutdown” proves government necessary. A...

Nathan Goodman · 4,719 views · 75%

Annual Income of Richest 100 People Enough to End Global Poverty Four Times Over

Leaders must aim to bring down global inequality at least to 1990 levels.

Oxfam · 4,594 views · 100%

Face It, Your Politics Are Boring As F-ck

You know it's true. Otherwise, why does everyone cringe when you say the word? Why has attendance at your discussion group meetings fallen to an all-time low? Why has the oppressed...

Nadia C. · 4,502 views · 94%

Rural Rebels and Useless Airports: La ZAD - Europe's largest Postcapitalist Land Occupation

October 2012, Notre dames des Landes, France -- Chris leans forward, her long fingers play with the dial of the car radio “I’m trying to find 107.7 FM“ … a burst of Classical music, a...

laronceblog · 4,463 views · 100%

Confessions of a Climate Change Denier

Photo: A mural by the artist Banksy along Regent’s Canal in London. (Flickr/Matt Brown) I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, N.J., in water and...

Yotam Marom · 4,161 views · 75%

2 min

Government of Occupation

Is it the end? END:CIV is a film that examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and...

subMedia · 4,078 views · unrated

How Liberty Park’s Ragged Utopia Is Changing the World

CREATING COMMUNITY: (Above) Chris O’Donnell, 24, of Bushwick, Brooklyn, takes a break at the Occupy Wall Street encampment. The kitchen has been serving free meals to as many as 1,000...

Nicholas Powers · 4,078 views · unrated

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 · 4,032 views · 75%

5 min

The Test of a Civilization

Acadamy award winner James Cromwell of L.A. Confidential, The Longest Yard, and many other movies, explains that animal testing is cruel and counter-productive.This video takes us...

julie3782 · 3,582 views · 75%

4 min

Grow Heathrow: Residents Resisting Eviction Over 3rd Runway

On March 1st 2010 Transition Heathrow members swooped on an abandoned market garden site in Sipson; one of the villages to be completely tarmacked to make way for a third runway at Heathrow.

Sean Richard · 3,216 views · 81%

If Your House Is On Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore On The Moral Urgency Of Climate Change

I first met nature writer and philosophy professor Kathleen Dean Moore in 2004. I had already dog-eared my copy of her first collection of essays,Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving...

Mary DeMocker · 3,063 views · unrated

Seven Ripoffs That Capitalists Would Like to Keep Out of the Media

Tax-avoiding, consumer-exploiting big business leaders are largely responsible for these abuses. Congress just lets it happen. Corporate heads and members of Congress seem incapable of...

Paul Buchheit · 2,309 views · 100%

Who Knew that Seoul was a Leader in the Sharing Economy?

Did you know that Seoul, South Korea is one of the world’s key sites for post-growth economic re-development? No? Neither did I, until I saw for myself. I was pleased to be invited...

Richard Heinberg · 1,775 views · 75%

How Money Shapes the World...

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. They are not dependent on us. We are dependent on them. They are not an interruption in our work. They are the purpose of it...

Michael Beecher · 1,317 views · 100%

Place-based Everywhere: Lessons from Flood Wall Street

The arrests at the end of Flood Wall Street may have been the only reason the mainstream media paid attention to the several thousand people who parked themselves next to the Charging...

Kristen Steele · 1,170 views · unrated

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life

This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly...

Deep Ecology Hub · 544,078 views · 82%

96 min

Forks Over Knives (2011) ($4)

What has happened to us? Despite the most advanced medical technology in the world, we are sicker than ever by nearly every measure. Two out of every three of us are overweight. Cases of...

98,911 views · 79%

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2012

2012 was another big year for break-out films in the social change genre. With most of the bases covered for all of the major problems we're facing, more and more films this year focused...

Tim Hjersted · 81,880 views · 100%

90 min

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

FIRST EARTH is a documentary about the movement towards a massive paradigm shift for shelter -- building healthy houses in the old ways, out of the very earth itself, and living together...

68,289 views · 84%

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

A Way to Achieve Global Human Happiness Without Destroying the Planet

Ashish Kothari · 53,972 views · 79%

Labor Day Is a Scam To Keep You Poor and Miserable Forever

Labor Day is a complete rip-off. Labor isn't celebrated at all—instead, a single day's break from labor is celebrated. You might think this is a stupid thing to care about, because Labor...

Ken Layne · 44,897 views · 100%

75 min

END:CIV (2011)

Directed by Franklin Lopez, END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and...

38,792 views · 88%

The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling

Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out...

John Taylor Gatto · 36,677 views · 100%

118 min

What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy (2000)

This is a powerful 10-part compilation that (in important ways) pulls aside the veil of Official myths and Lies about "freedom", "democracy", and “human rights” being the basis of U.S...

Frank Dorrel · 35,905 views · 96%

Sizing up the Tiny House Movement

A growing number of people are choosing to shun the conventional option of a foundation, mortgage and spare room in favour of a house the size of the average suburban garage. So what...

Steph Wetherell · 33,574 views · 100%

104 min

Back to Eden: Simple Sustainable Solutions (2011)

After years of back-breaking toil in ground ravaged by the effects of man-made growing systems, Paul Gautschi has discovered a taste of what God intended for mankind in the garden of...

24,239 views · 92%

The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2013

2013 was another incredible year for fantastic, forward thinking social change films.

Films For Action · 20,661 views · 92%

How 'Hygge' Can Help You Get Through Winter

The vague cultural concept doesn't translate easily into English, but it has helped Denmark become the 'happiest country on Earth' despite long, dark winters.

Russell McLendon · 19,245 views · 100%

Please Get My Kids Nothing for Christmas

Dear family and friends,

Greg Hanscom · 17,808 views · 88%

60 min

"They Take Our Jobs!" - Aviva Chomsky on 21 Myths about Immigration

Aviva Chomsky's 2007 book "They Take Our Jobs!" provides a careful analysis of the overheated rhetoric around immigration policy in the United States, debunking the 21 biggest myths and...

AustinActivistArchiv · 17,416 views · 75%

Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs

About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food...

Mike P. Sinn · 17,138 views · 100%

54 min

Unwasted: The Future Of Business On Earth (2011)

Unwasted presents the alluring ideal of zero waste as a key element of the sustainable business model. While some may shake their heads thinking this an impossible task, it’s worth...

16,539 views · 72%

5 Women Who Are Changing Our Relationship With the Earth

From left to right: Starhawk, Julia Butterfly Hill, Majora Carter, Vandana Shiva, and Patricia Gualinga. August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day to honor when American women gained...

Rachael Steineckert · 16,145 views · 97%

69 min

Salmon Confidential (2013)

Salmon Confidential is a film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for...

14,581 views · 95%

56 min

The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2004)

The Emotional World of Farm Animals is a delightful documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often just viewed as food.

14,423 views · 95%

65 min

David versus Monsanto (2009) ($2)

Imagine that a storm blows across your garden - and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which...

14,373 views · 92%

Limited Wants, Unlimited Means: an Intro to Hunter-Gatherer Economics

Richard B. Lee · 13,970 views · 75%

10 Ways To Make Positive Change In The World

How can I make a positive difference in the world? Where do I start? Which of the overwhelming number of urgent global issues should I focus my attention on first? These are questions...

Sophie McAdam · 12,621 views · 92%

Updated: 'End of capitalism': Bolivia hopes to expel Coca-Cola in wake of 2012 Mayan 'apocalypse'

Update 8/6, a clarification. The below article's quotes were taken a bit out of context: http://www.rt.com/news/bolivia-coca-cola-ban-770/

RT · 12,050 views · 100%

Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right

"What is keeping us from thriving?" asks the new movie, Thrive. The answer it gives is "the global elite," the people who control the financial system that in turn controls everything...

Charles Eisenstein · 11,957 views · 100%

59 min

Life Running Out of Control (2004)

In the mid 1980s, scientists unlocked the genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything seemed possible! There would be no more hunger or malnutrition; diseases would be...

11,380 views · 88%

Disaster by Design? What's Wrong with the "Thrive" Movement

Thrive is the name of a controversial film that asks, and attempts to answer, some of the deepest questions about the nature of the human condition and what is thwarting our chances to...

John Robbins · 10,710 views · 100%

Five Left-Libertarian Reforms Millennials Should Be Fighting For

A note of clarification: The "left" in left libertarian in the title exists to distinguish the solutions this article presents from the right-learning associations most people have of...

Kevin Carson · 9,707 views · 72%

A Libertarian Socialist Critique of the "Libertarian" Party & Ron Paul

The word “libertarian” is becoming an increasingly popular descriptor of political ideology in the US, though many in the US incorrectly associate libertarianism only with the capitalist...

Brian Ellis · 8,982 views · 100%

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