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And Dreams Shall Take Revenge
And Dreams Shall Take Revenge (trailer)
In January 2015 Syriza became the first radical left government in modern Europe. In July its people rejected financial regime change with a resounding No! vote in the referendum. Our cameras were there, from the first election rally to the government HQ on referendum night...
3 min
Pope Francis: The Encyclical
Pope Francis: The Encyclical (trailer)
If you’re like me and eagerly anticipating Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change—due out Thursday, June 18—stop what you’re doing and watch this.
2 min
India's Daughter
India's Daughter (trailer)
INDIA's DAUGHTER is the story of the short life, and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus, and her death, sparked unprecedented protests and...
5 min
A Tale of Two Neighbours
A Tale of Two Neighbours (trailer)
The story of two neighbours on either side of a river. One was an environmentalist who grazed his cattle right up to the edge of the river. The other was Geoff Lawton. Visit geofflawton.com to view the full version.
1 min
Last Call At The Oasis
Last Call At The Oasis (trailer)
Water. It's the earth's most valuable resource. Our cities are powered by it, countless industries depend on it, and all living things need it to survive. But it's very possible that in the near future, there won't be enough to sustain life on our planet. From Academy...
2 min
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (trailer)
In this essential new feature documentary, legendary radical activist Angela Davis speaks for the first time about her 1970s imprisonment as a terrorist and conspirator, which became a flashpoint in the black liberation struggle and turned her into a revolutionary icon.
2 min
The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People
The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People (trailer)
The Future of Energy is a powerful documentary that captures the movement across the United States to transition to renewable energy and what everyday people are doing to help foster that shift. It's a positive film about the renewable energy revolution, and a love story...
3 min
Food Chains
Food Chains (trailer)
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the Un
2 min
Open Sesame - The Story of Seeds
Open Sesame - The Story of Seeds (trailer)
One of the world's most precious resources is at risk. This timely and emotionally moving film illuminates what is at stake and what can be done to protect the source of nearly all our food: SEEDS. Seeds provide the basis for everything from fabric, to food to fuels. Seeds...
3 min
Evicted and Abandoned: Exposing The World Bank
Evicted and Abandoned: Exposing The World Bank (trailer)
Evicted and Abandoned is a global investigation that reveals how the World Bank Group, the powerful development lender committed to ending poverty, has regularly failed to follow its own rules for protecting vulnerable populations.
1 min
The Emperor's New Clothes (Trailer)
The Emperor's New Clothes (Trailer)
The Emperor's New Clothes trailer - a film by Michael Winterbottom with Russell Brand. Milton Friedman once said that every crisis was an opportunity.
3 min
The Hunting Ground
The Hunting Ground (trailer)
From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they...
2 min
The Bliss of Ignorance
The Bliss of Ignorance (trailer)
Through first-hand testimony The Bliss of Ignorance investigates South Africa's complex relationship with one of the country's most abundant resources: coal.
2 min
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Emperor's New Clothes (trailer)
British comedian and activist Russell Brand joins forces with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom on a polemical documentary about the financial crisis and gross inequality we currently face. Starting with the genesis of today’s economic policies, with the arrival of...
2 min
The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project
The Great Squeeze: Surviving the Human Project (trailer)
The Great Squeeze chronicles our dependence on cheap and abundant fossil fuels that have been feeding the engine of our economic system for the past 200 years.  Although cheap energy has lifted modern civilizations to new heights, the ecosystem we depend on has paid the...
3 min
America the Beautiful
America the Beautiful (trailer)
In a society where "celebutantes" like Paris Hilton dominate newsstands and models who weigh less than 90 pounds die from malnutrition, female body image is one of the more dire problems facing today's society. "America the Beautiful" illuminates the issue by covering every base.
2 min
The Great Invisible
The Great Invisible (trailer)
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately affected, though the story has long ago faded from the...
2 min
Drone
Drone (trailer)
The secret CIA drone war. People living under the drones and young dronepilots coming to terms with killing through joysticks. DRONE uncovers crucial secrets of the CIA drone program, and shows how drones have changed war and possibly our future. See the documentary that...
2 min
The Penalty - How Much Are Executions Costing you?
The Penalty - How Much Are Executions Costing you? (trailer)
Do you know how much the death penalty is costing you? The Penalty is a 90-minute feature-length documentary from the award-winning Webby-nominated team behind One For Ten. Lifting the lid on America's modern death penalty, the film examines the human cost of the ultimate...
2 min
Ethnic Notions
Ethnic Notions (trailer)
Ethnic Notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the...
5 min
FRAMED
FRAMED (trailer)
What's behind the West's fascination with "saving" Africa? FRAMED investigates the images and myths that cast a continent as a victim.
5 min
Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness
Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness (trailer)
"Beyond Right & Wrong" looks at areas of conflict around the world and asks what it takes to forgive, and what it takes to ask for forgiveness under the most difficult of circumstances. Paired personal interviews of aggressors and victims from Northern Ireland, Rwanda...
2 min
Saving My Tomorrow - Inspiring Youth into Action
Saving My Tomorrow - Inspiring Youth into Action (trailer)
A lyrical mix of science, animation and music, SAVING MY TOMORROW celebrates the wonders of the natural world and is a call from kids to kids to help take care of the planet.
2 min
Unacceptable Levels
Unacceptable Levels (trailer)
Unacceptable Levels examines the results of the chemical revolution of the 1940s through the eyes of affable filmmaker Ed Brown, a father seeking to understand the world in which he and his wife are raising their children. To create this debut documentary, one man and his...
2 min
Generation Jobless
Generation Jobless (trailer)
There was a time when a University degree assured you a of good job, good pay and a comfortable life.  Not any more.  Today, the unemployment rate for young people in this country is close to 15% – double that of the general population.  But the real crisis is the increasing...
2 min
LibLabCon - "So Bad It Should Be Illegal."
LibLabCon - "So Bad It Should Be Illegal." (trailer)
The blockbuster that cost £60,0000,0000,000 to make! So bad it should be illegal.
2 min
Concerning Violence
Concerning Violence (trailer)
The powerful new film from Göran Hugo Olsson, director of The Black Power Mixtape, is a fresh and bold visual narrative, documenting the liberation from colonial rule in the '60s and '70s in Africa. Working with recently discovered archival footage, the film depicts some of...
1 min
Time As Money: A Documentary Film About Time Banking
Time As Money: A Documentary Film About Time Banking (trailer)
From small town neighborhoods to cities, the shift in the economy and continued financial struggles is having an adverse effect on communities and creating devastating isolation for its inhabitants. As a result, time banks begin to form encouraging members to repair and...
2 min
Black Hole: Transforming a Forest into a Coalmine
Black Hole: Transforming a Forest into a Coalmine (trailer)
One Mining Company, a protest camp running for over 700 days, 280 voluntary arrests and counting, a State Forest home to 396 Species of native fauna and flora, 34 of which are endangered. What is this all about?
6 min
Return - A Story We Wrote Together
Return - A Story We Wrote Together (trailer)
More than 5 years after the expropriation of €492,000 from 39 different banks, a group of activists reveal how the money was used and how they lived through the experience. The driving force behind this collective is the situation imposed by the current system, civil...
4 min
Dear White People
Dear White People (trailer)
Dear White People is a satire about being a black face in a white place. This sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama was written and directed by Justin Simien and follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial...
2 min
A Hidden America: Children of the Plains, Lakota, Pine Ridge
A Hidden America: Children of the Plains, Lakota, Pine Ridge (trailer)
This poignant doc with Diane Sawyer takes an in-depth look at the young Lakota dreamers and survivors of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota fighting against decades of neglect from the US Government.
1 min
Lessons Of Darkness
Lessons Of Darkness (trailer)
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. Herzog, as much a daredevil as a documentarian, took his small crew in a...
6 min
AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda
AWAKE: The Life of Yogananda (trailer)
An unconventional biography about the Hindu Swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West in the 1920s. Paramahansa Yogananda authored the spiritual classic AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI, which has sold millions of copies worldwide and is a go-to book for seekers, philosophers...
2 min
From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
From The Plantation To The Penitentiary (trailer)
Slavery is alive and well in America today, even under the nose of the first black US president. Few realize that the US constitution still permits slavery: in prison. This hard-hitting landmark documentary, still in production, focuses on the connection between prisons and...
2 min
Scotland Yet: A Film About Independence
Scotland Yet: A Film About Independence (trailer)
Scotland Yet is a feature length documentary that takes a radically different approach to the debate on Scottish independence.
4 min
Seeds Of Hope
Seeds Of Hope (trailer)
Seeds of Hope, produced, directed and edited by Danny Miller (Turning the Canoe, Changing Tides) is a documentary that explores the food and agriculture industry in Hawai'i and problems resulting from land use, importing foods and GMO test sites.  For more information about...
5 min
Divorce Corp
Divorce Corp (trailer)
A shocking exposé of the inner workings of the $50 billion a year U.S. family law industry, Divorce Corp shines a bright light on the appalling waste, and shameless collusive practices seen daily in family courts. It is a stunning documentary film that anyone considering...
2 min
Big Men
Big Men (trailer)
A good movie gives you a ticket to a secret world and Big Men delivers again and again, taking you into rooms you have no business entering. You’ll eavesdrop on meetings about oil deals worth billions of dollars and watch heavily armed militants preparing to strike. It’s a...
2 min
Street Life: Faces Uncovered (2016) (trailer)
Street Life: Faces Uncovered (2016) (trailer)
Our journey began in 2012...
2 min
Journey of the Universe (2011) (trailer)
Journey of the Universe (2011) (trailer)
Re-imagine the universe's story and see the human connection to the cosmos in new ways. Author and evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme shares his infectious curiosity about life's biggest questions and our role as humans in this awe-inspiring universe.
2 min
Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku
Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (trailer)
This absorbing documentary focuses on 10 visionary New Zealanders out to prove that a shift in consciousness can heal our environment. You'll be inspired, and never look at stinging nettle in your garden in quite the same way again.
2 min
In Between Songs
In Between Songs (trailer)
“In Between Songs” documents Djalu Gurruwiwi, Australian Aboriginal elder, leader of the Galpu clan, and world-renowned didjeridu master, as he fights for the future of his family and his community. Alcoholism and drug abuse run rampant, while a ravenous bauxite mining...
2 min
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic (trailer)
The Permaculture Orchard : Beyond Organic is a full-length educational film that will give you the tools necessary to get started on your own project, whether it's a multi-acre commercial orchard, or a few fruit trees in your urban backyard.
1 min
The Great Fallacy
The Great Fallacy (trailer)
"“The Great Fallacy,” Paco Vázquez’s dense, lively new film about economic and sociological issues in Puerto Rico, eschews the storytelling form of many contemporary documentaries in favor of an instructive crash course in radical politics. It is propaganda, an educational...
86 min
Terms and Conditions May Apply (trailer)
Terms and Conditions May Apply (trailer)
Admit it: you don’t really read the endless terms and conditions connected to every website you visit, phone call you make or app you download. But every day, billion-dollar corporations are learning more about your interests, your friends and family, your finances, and your...
2 min
The Starfish Throwers (trailer)
The Starfish Throwers (trailer)
Worlds apart, a five-star chef, a twelve year-old girl, and a retired school teacher discover how their individual efforts to feed the poor ignite a movement in the fight against hunger. Award-winning chef Narayanan Krishnan, fighting against the caste system in India, quits...
3 min
The Sacred Balance
The Sacred Balance (trailer)
Based on David Suzuki's best-selling book of the same name, and filmed on five continents, THE SACRED BALANCE celebrates a new scientific worldview, an inclusive vision of nature in which we human beings are intimately connected to all life processes on Earth.
2 min
ReGeneration
ReGeneration (trailer)
The award-winning documentary film, #ReGENERATION, explores the galvanizing forces behind the Occupy Movement and the state of social activism in our society. The film takes an uncompromising look at the challenges facing today’s youth and young adults as they attempt to...
2 min
Deep Green: Solutions To Stop Global Warming Now (2012) (trailer)
Deep Green: Solutions To Stop Global Warming Now (2012) (trailer)
Travel to 9 countries with Matt Briggs to uncover the best ideas, cutting-edge technologies and restorative solutions to help curb climate change. You can view the full program or the chaptered version.
2 min
The Ethics of Fracking
The Ethics of Fracking (trailer)
This film explores the ethics of fracking though different professional, scientific, medical, spiritual and religious backgrounds. It also takes a look at the deceiving advertising the gas industry heavily relies on.
37 min
Last Call: The Untold Reasons for the Global Crisis (trailer)
Last Call: The Untold Reasons for the Global Crisis (trailer)
Last Call provides a high-level examination of one of the most fundamental environmental questions of our time - are there limits to growth? In 1972, the publication of the book The Limits to Growth stimulated worldwide interest and debate, selling 30 million copies in 30...
6 min
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating (trailer)
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental...
3 min
A Will for the Woods
A Will for the Woods (trailer)
What if our "last act" could be a gift to the planet — a force for regeneration? Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth. A WILL FOR THE WOODS is an immersive...
2 min
The Raising of America
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
Ivory Tower
Ivory Tower (trailer)
As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE...
2 min
Foot: A Documentary Exploring Our Current Dysfunctional Relationship With Footwear And Our Feet (trailer)
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
Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes
Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes (trailer)
Pay 2 Play shows how our elections encourage extortion, and how to stop it. Coming August 2014. In part 2, Lawrence Lessig outlines a strategy for taking action. Vist http://mayone.us/ for more.
2 min
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (trailer)
Angela Sun's journey of discovery to one of the most remote places on Earth, Midway Atoll, to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Along the way she encounters scientists, industry, legislators and activists who shed light on what our...
2 min
The Injustice System In America
The Injustice System In America (trailer)
According to the Bureau of Justice 49% of all prison inmates nationally are African American compared to their 13% make up of the overall population. Hispanics constitute 17% of the prison population nationally compared to their 10% of the total population. Most inmates are...
2 min
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