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A Siberian Shaman gives us insight into life on the deepest frozen lake in the world. - George Thompson
10 min
Aluna means "conscience." Enter the last theocratic chiefdom in America, hidden for centuries on a mountain in Colombia. The Kogi have made this amazing documentary to help us understand how to avoid the destruction of the world that they are trying to protect, and of ourselves.
89 min
When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...
Raoul Martinez
What if you thought of it
as the Jews consider the Sabbath
the most sacred of times?
Cease from travel.
Cease from buying and selling.
Give up, just for now,
on trying to make the world
different than it is.
Sing. Pray. Touch only those
to whom you commit your life.
Center...
Lynn Ungar
In this video we examine how fear can be used as a tool to manipulate others, and how those in positions of power, past and present, have effectively used fear to control certain aspects of society. =================================================== Support us on Patreon...
10 min
In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.
11 min
Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
780 min
"What makes nonviolence so different from violence, is the way that nonviolence seeks to address and confront root causes of problems: violence addresses the symptoms and nonviolence goes at root cause of the problem."
Paul K. Chappell
Matriarchies are not just a reversal of patriarchies, with women ruling over men as the usual misinterpretation would have it. Matriarchies are mother-centered societies. They are based onmaternal values:care-taking, nurturing, mothering. This holds for everybody: for...
Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
"Its all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we are in between stories. The Old Storythe account of how the world came to be and how we fit into itsustained us for a long time. It shaped our emotional attitudes, provided us with life purpose, energized...
Tim Hjersted
In this in-depth interview, Reverend angel Kyodo williams reflects on our widespread crisis of story, the failure of institutional religions to offer a new way forward, and her philosophy of Radical Dharmaa path to individual and collective liberation. A Sensei in the...
39 min
With climate change and biodiversity loss worsening every day, we're all asking ourselves: will humanity survive?
7 min
Nonty Charity Sabicis cofounder of the internationalRise Ubuntu Network, based on ubuntu, an indigenous South African philosophy that aims to teach and collectively remember the connection shared between humans and nature. Based in Barcelona, Sabic is involved in theWorld...
MarÍa Sanz DomÍnguez and Timothy McKeon
INHABITANTS follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization have disrupted...
76 min
California once had more linguistic variety than all of Europe. Language Keepers is a 6-part series following four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages.
105 min
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The design brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it.
Innovating and...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Walking along the Klamath River in Northern California, Phil Albers reflects on the Karuk language and the ancestral land of the Karuk people that surrounds it. This film premiered in the fifth issue of Emergence Magazine on "Language" as part of the six-part multimedia story...
5 min
Nearly all of Ethiopias original trees have disappeared, but small pockets of old-growth forest still surround Ethiopias churches, living arks of biodiversity amongst the brown grazing fields. In this film and essay, Jeremy Seifert and Fred Bahnson travel to Ethiopia to gain...
8 min
If you get into debt buying your child branded trainers, if you fear redundancy, if you suffer anxiety about the future of the planet and you blame yourself for all of these things then you are showing symptoms of drowning in the insidious and sinister ideology...
Brendan Montague
With this foundation, I think we can have healthy disagreements.
If you can dream it, you can do it, is a famous quote attributed to Walt Disney or one of his staff.
John Perkins
Effortless Actionis the sequel to my documentary The Art of Effortless Living. This documentary explores the spontaneous nature of the Taoist wisdom of wu-wei as explained by the great sages Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.
48 min
We often define ourselves by things that are "outside" us: relationships, work, family even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body irrevocably damaged? Who would you be then? This talk explores the impact of loss on the...
20 min
"The challenge of building trust across divides is universal and inescapable. Can we move from a culture of blame and avoidance to an acceptance of shared responsibility for a new future?"- Initiatives of Change International
Rob Corcoran
The goal of After Skoolhas always been to take the most empowering ideas and enhance them with art. Creating videos like this is my purpose on earth. When you find your purpose, nothing will stop you, because...the purpose is bigger than you.
12 min
David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university professor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.
24 min
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. ~ Bren Brown
Justice Bartlett
This collection of articles from the Films For Action library looks at the tensions, disagreements and varying strategies within the anti-fascist movement from a variety of authors.
The Theory of Enchantment by Chlo Valdary is a framework that seeks to end polarization in our society by teaching communities how to be in relationship with one another.
1 min
Focusing on identities in our political conversations is divisive and restrictive. How can we shift the conversation back to principles?
Christine Louis-Dit-Sully
"What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works." - Charles Eisenstein
13 min
What is wealthnot just spiritual wealth but material wealthas we move past the world-story of domination, competition, and control? How can we practice it now?
39 min
"If we want to be motivated by love, we have to ask 'where does that love come from?'" - Charles Eisenstein
11 min
A rare, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Jordan Peterson, the academic and best-selling author who captured the world's attention with his criticisms of political correctness and his life-changing philosophy on discovering personal meaning. Christened as the most...
90 min
From extreme nationalism and far-right politics to compassion and empathy, watch the incredible transformation story of Joram van Klaveren, a former Dutch parliamentarian.
Joram van Klaveren is now the president of the Anthony Janszoon Association. The English translation of...
7 min
Evil, even in the darkest moments, is impotent before the miracle of human kindness. This miracle defies prejudices and hatreds. It crosses cultures and religions. It lies at the core of faith. Take a brief journey through the eyes of American, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
8 min
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
41 min
Told through the life of Alan Clements, Spiritually Incorrect shatters numerous light-washed sacred cows of the spiritual movement and explores sustainability from an inner perspective - showing how we can escape the trap ofspiritual narcissism and heal from trauma with...
88 min
Believing otherwise corrodes us, corrodes freedom, and corrodes the world we live in
Chloé Valdary
Indigenous peoples worldwide honor plants, not only as our sustainers, but as our oldest teachers who share teachings of generosity, creativity, sustainability and joy. By their living examples, plants spur our imaginations of how we might live. By braiding indigenous...
22 min
The opioid addictions, the school shootings, the dronings, the prison industrial complex, the rising number of homeless, the one-crisis-after-another and for a while you might run with your fire hose, trying to put out one fire after another. But at some point you burn out...
7 min
In the days since the white supremacists marched into Charlottesville, Va., my Twitter feed has lit up with advice from black pundits, activists and even friends:
Its time to stop talking about racism with white people.
Whiteness is always protected, even at its...
Chloé Valdary
The Art of Effortless Living is a documentary based on the traditional philosophy and essential teaching of Taoism.
89 min
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce Parry (of the BBC's Tribe, Amazon & Arctic) embarks on an immersive odyssey to explore the...
100 min
In this talk connecting Yoruba indigenous philosophies, historical accounts of transatlantic slave crossings, new materialist/feminist insights, Bohrs scientific theory of quantum indeterminacy, Deleuzes musings about assemblages and rhizomes, and contemporary concerns with...
20 min
This documentary, which was produced and directed by Alfred Birkegaard and Katja Gry Birkegaard Carlsen, explores how the Internet is changing the way in which we do science and create knowledge. It takes the viewer on a journey from Danish biology papers all the way to...
56 min
Humanity is a part of nature and playing our perfect role just like the bees, flowers, sharks and trees. Intelligence with feeling and compassion for our predicament.
20 min
'Today, despite all the grim climate news, I actually feel more optimistic than ever.'
Peter Kalmus
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentaryLove School.
Oh, home, let me come home
Home is whenever Im with you.
~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
As I pul
Ian Mackenzie
Exploring the intimate relationship between self, story, and reality. Join the course at http://www.CharlesEisenstein.org/metaphysics
3 min
BeyondCommon Sense, most Americans know little about Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Few know that at the end of Paines life, he had become a pariah in U.S. society, and for many years after his death, he was either ignored or excoriatedthe price he paid forThe Age of Reasonand its...
Bruce E. Levine
Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.
25 min
A short film by the creators ofA Quest for Meaning, inspired byArnaud Desjardins, whichplunges us into the themes of spirituality and self-knowledge.
26 min
In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...
Jordan Engel
Going around New Zealand making a film like that's not gonna get you anywhere, that's irrational, impractical, unrealistic
71 min
Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere, a Traditional Maori Elder, Leader Creation, and a Tohuna, addresses the Spotlight on Indigenous Peoples plenary at the 2015 Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City, Utah on October 19th.
14 min
It is not as if the internet and age of information is bad, but it's not as if it's good. In this video, Pursuit of Wonder explores why, during an era where there is more information than ever about how to live and be happy, we are more confused and less happy than ever, in...
8 min
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser