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John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit 2 min
John Perkins Explains How Economic Hitmen Rob The World In Service of Corporate Profit
In two minutes, John Perkins explains how the globalized economy works today. It's pretty important that people understand what's driving the economic cancer that has now taken over the planet.
SENTIENTMIND · 72,555 views · 97%
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution 26 min
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)
As corporate media fails to provide accurate news of the world's dire environmental predicament, the Earth sends a clear message in the form of record-breaking natural disasters, famine and epidemics. People are mobilizing for what lies ahead.
Vanessa Schulz · 70,167 views · 90%
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture 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 like in the old days, by recreating villages. It is a sprawling film, shot on location...
68,384 views · 84%
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People 5 min
Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (trailer)
This groundbreaking 2006 documentary based on Jack Shaheen's acclaimed book of the same title critically examines a long line of degrading images of Arabs in Hollywood and U.S. popular culture -- from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding...
Media Education Foundation · 64,209 views · 96%
The Future of Food 2 min
The Future of Food (trailer)
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America — a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented...
57,047 views · 98%
The Secret of Oz 110 min
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Thirteen years ago, in a documentary called "The Money Masters", we asked the question why is America going broke. It wasn't clear then that we were, but it is today. Now the question is how can we get out of this mess. Foreclosures are everywhere, unemployment is...
51,678 views · 89%
We - Arundhati Roy 64 min
We - Arundhati Roy (2006)
We is a fast-paced 64 minute documentary that covers the world politics of power, war, corporations, deception and exploitation. It visualizes the words of Arundhati Roy, specifically her famous Come September speech, where she spoke on such things as the war on terror...
50,072 views · 82%
No Logo: Brands. Globalization. Resistance. 3 min
No Logo: Brands. Globalization. Resistance. (trailer)
In the age of the brand, logos are everywhere. But why do some of the world’s best-known brands find themselves on the wrong end of the spray paint can — the targets of anti-corporate campaigns by activists and protesters?
48,695 views · 84%
Garbage Warrior 3 min
Garbage Warrior (trailer)
What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing thermal mass and energy-independent housing.
45,570 views · 94%
War By Other Means 52 min
War By Other Means (1992)
John Pilger travels to many third world countries to investigate the devastating results of loans from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). This film shows how many wars today are not carried out at the barrel of a gun, but by the monetary policies of global...
45,301 views · 88%
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind 99 min
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the "elitist theory of democracy" and the relationship between war, propaganda and class.
43,972 views · 90%
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary 27 min
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)
Class Dismissed provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at the myths that reduce the complexity of history into simple soundbites, and the information that never seems to make it onto the textbook pages. How can we alter this system to address...
43,088 views · 91%
A Passion For Sustainability 56 min
A Passion For Sustainability (2008)
Envision a society where economic opportunity, social justice and sustainable culture all spring from environmental stewardship. Imagine a world where nurturing the health of the planet is the catalyst for global financial success and social stability. Can you? Ten years...
41,915 views · 88%
Palestine Is Still The Issue 53 min
Palestine Is Still The Issue (2002)
In a series of extraordinary interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis, John Pilger weaves together the issue of Palestine. He speaks to the families of suicide bombers and their victims; he sees the humiliation of Palestinians imposed on them at myriad checkpoints and...
40,098 views · 95%
Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority 88 min
Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006)
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict, "Occupation 101" presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding...
Sufyan Omeish · 37,223 views · 82%
A Crude Awakening 82 min
A Crude Awakening (2007)
Produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, A Crude Awakening tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly...
36,402 views · 100%
What I've Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy 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. foreign policy.
Frank Dorrel · 35,984 views · 96%
Tim Wise On White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality (2008) 10 min
Tim Wise On White Privilege: Racism, White Denial & The Cost of Inequality (2008) (trailer)
For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son...
35,609 views · 100%
Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video 5 min
Dream Worlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video (trailer)
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...
34,873 views · 92%
Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope
Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope
Each day there are opportunities for resistance, liberation, freedom, creativity, engagement, and meaning.
Jesse D. Palmer · 34,118 views · 95%
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime 72 min
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (2006)
Released in 2006, this is still one of the most compelling films outlining the disturbing and heavily censored facts associated with the worst terrorist attacks in American history. The film focuses on prior knowledge and established facts as reported by mainstream outlets...
34,001 views · 70%
Stephen Colbert Drops Truth Bombs in Front of Elites while George Bush Cringes 24 min
Stephen Colbert Drops Truth Bombs in Front of Elites while George Bush Cringes
This will forever go down in history as totally awesome
Political Comedy · 32,056 views · 80%
Vanishing of the Bees 3 min
Vanishing of the Bees (trailer)
Imagine half a million adults skipping town and leaving their children behind. Picture an opened suitcase filled with bundles of cash at a bus stop and yet no robber wants to snatch it. The apiary science mystery known as Colony Collapse Disorder displays these very symptoms...
30,611 views · 88%
9/11: Press for Truth 84 min
9/11: Press for Truth (2006)
9/11: Press for Truth follows three of the Jersey Girls (widows of individuals killed in the attacks) as well as other family members in their search for answers about what really happened on 9/11.
30,462 views · 77%
No End in Sight 102 min
No End in Sight (2007)
A staggering portrait of arrogance and incompetence, the documentary No End in Sight avoids the question of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, choosing instead to focus on the war's aftermath--and meticulously examines the chain of decisions that led Iraq into a grotesque...
30,218 views · 94%
The Impossible Hamster 1 min
The Impossible Hamster
What the impossible hamster has to teach us about economic growth. A new animation from nef (the new economics foundation), scripted by Andrew Simms, numbers crunched by Viki Johnson and pictures realised by Leo Murray. We wanted to confront people with the meaning and...
Undercurrents Media · 29,812 views · 73%
The Israeli Lobby 50 min
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the U.S. relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the unmentionable? In March 2006 the American political scientists John Mearsheimer...
29,109 views · 81%
The End of America 3 min
The End of America (trailer)
Wolf's impassioned arguments prove totally compelling, and the filmmakers' accompanying illustrations transport her comparisons from the abstract to the historic- VARIETY Expertly crafted by award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Devil Came on Horseback...
28,947 views · 75%
The Weather Underground 91 min
The Weather Underground (2002)
"Hello. I'm going to read a declaration of a state of war... Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice." -- Bernardine Dohrn Thirty years ago, with these words, a group of young American radicals called The Weathermen announced...
26,287 views · 80%
The End of Suburbia 52 min
The End of Suburbia (2004)
"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up" - James Howard Kunstler Global oil peak and the inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, Are today's suburbs destined to become the slums of the future? This is a short version of "The End...
25,978 views · 92%
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
This is the Definitive Argument Against Drug Prohibition. It's Time We Legalize All Drugs.
After you've finished reading this, there will be no doubt in your mind. Legalizing all drugs is the best way to lower the incidence of death, disease, crime and addiction. If you already know the drug war has failed, skip to the middle for an alternative policy. You will be...
Jack A. Cole (Retired Narcotics Undercover Officer) · 24,368 views · 100%
McLibel 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 Corporation. Filmed over three years, the documentary follows Helen Steel and Dave Morris as they are...
22,977 views · 85%
Harlan County, USA 105 min
Harlan County, USA (1976)
Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary depicted a group of coal miners' prolonged and frequently dangerous strike against the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
22,273 views · 92%
The New American Century 94 min
The New American Century (2009)
This film goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present. This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders...
Massimo Mazzucco · 22,125 views · 100%
The Kingdom of Survival 12 min
The Kingdom of Survival (trailer)
The Kingdom of Survival is an interdisciplanary documentary combining speculative travelogue and investigative journalism in order to trace possible links between survivalism, spirituality, art, radical politics, outlaw culture, alternative media and fringe philosophy...
21,948 views · 83%
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis 86 min
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis (1987)
In this documentary Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of the secret government. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected, top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret...
21,507 views · 100%
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media 37 min
50 Years Later, Edward R. Murrow's Famous Speech Is Still a Damning Critique of The Corporate Media
Such a powerful speech by one of our all-time heroes.
K D · 21,383 views · 94%
Lawrence Lessig Keynote at the National Conference on Media Reform 28 min
Lawrence Lessig Keynote at the National Conference on Media Reform
Keynote by Lawrence Lessig at the NCMR on June 6, 2008, framing the argument for CHANGE CONGRESS. One of our favorite speeches from the conference. Change Congress is a national movement to end corruption in America's congress. The initiative is organizing citizens to push...
lessig · 21,004 views · unrated
Medicinal Cannabis and its Impact on Human Health 47 min
Medicinal Cannabis and its Impact on Human Health (2011)
In this myth shattering, information packed documentary, learn from physicians and leading researchers about medicinal cannabis and its demonstrated affects on human health.
19,632 views · 100%
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7 15 min
Architects & Engineers: Solving the Mystery of WTC 7
This is AE911Truth's documentary on the mysterious destruction of World Trade Center Building #7 on 9/11/01. Join actor, Ed Asner, and architect, Richard Gage, AIA, as they narrate an unfolding story that decimates the official account ("collapse due to normal office fires")...
AE911Truth · 19,555 views · 90%
The Battle of Chernobyl 93 min
The Battle of Chernobyl (2006) ($5)
THE BATTLE OF CHERNOBYL dramatically chronicles the series of harrowing efforts to stop the nuclear chain reaction and prevent a second explosion, to "liquidate" the radioactivity, and to seal off the ruined reactor under a mammoth "sarcophagus." These nerve-racking events...
17,954 views · 88%
Waste Land 2 min
Waste Land (2010)
An uplifting documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the...
17,802 views · 88%
WikiRebels 57 min
WikiRebels (2010)
Exclusive rough-cut of the first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive media network WikiLeaks and its enigmatic Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange. Reporters Jesper Huor and...
17,785 views · 98%
The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied 94 min
The War On Democracy: Never Believe Anything Until It's Officially Denied (2007)
'The War On Democracy' (2007) was John Pilger's first for cinema. It explores the current and past relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.
17,534 views · 78%
Johnny Knoxville: Detroit Lives 36 min
Johnny Knoxville: Detroit Lives
Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America—some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own...
17,005 views · 75%
The Tragedy Of The Mental Commons
The Tragedy Of The Mental Commons
Driving to the airport to pick up a friend, I stop at a red light. My eyes wander to a bus-stop bench across the intersection. 'Norma Whitfield - Your Real-Estate Connection.' Wham. Before I even have time to react, the advertisement has entered my mind and lodged itself...
Kevin Arnold · 16,867 views · 94%
Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World 89 min
Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World (2005)
Excellent documentary showing how dangerous Aspartame - an artificial sweetener in most diet products - is to human health. From its history, to its effects this video is enough to shock anyone into really looking at their food labels next time they shop. Aspartame is a toxic...
15,773 views · 75%
¿Sería Buenos Aires? / Maybe Buenos Aires? 48 min
¿Sería Buenos Aires? / Maybe Buenos Aires? (2006)
A universal story that touches upon many of the themes that cross the modern world we live in: dislocation of people, destruction of their dreams overnight by crises they are not responsible for and their efforts to survive. (Spanish with English subtitles) (Español con...
15,744 views · 82%
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Anonymous Declares War On The Koch Bros.
Dear Citizens of the United States of America,
Anonymous · 15,716 views · 100%
American Blackout 89 min
American Blackout (2006)
Whatever you think you know about our election systems or Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the news media fails to accurately inform the public. Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba, creator of Eminem's "Mosh" music video, American Blackout...
15,666 views · 80%
The Wobblies 1 min
The Wobblies (trailer)
"Solidarity! All for One and One for All!" With that slogan, the Industrial Workers of the World, aka the Wobblies, took to organizing unskilled workers into one big union and changing the course of history. Along the way to winning an eight-hour workday and fair wages in the...
15,596 views · 83%
The Globalisation Tapes 70 min
The Globalisation Tapes (2003)
If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are only limited by our courage, our determination, and our capacity to imagine. A...
14,866 views · 75%
Processed People 40 min
Processed People (2009)
The statistics are terrifying. Two hundred million Americans are overweight and 100 million are obese. More than 75 million Americans have high blood pressure. 24 million people are diabetic. Heart disease remains the No. 1 cause of death for men and women, followed by stroke...
14,810 views · 75%
Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?
Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity?
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 · 14,711 views · 100%
Poison Fire 29 min
Poison Fire (2008)
Poison Fire, a documentary exposing oil and gas abuses in Nigeria and featuring Friends of the Earth Nigeria volunteers, was launched with a world premiere at the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA) Nov 20-30.
14,672 views · 88%
Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk 62 min
Peace Pilgrim: An American Sage Who Walked Her Talk (2002)
This is a powerful documentary about an extraordinary woman. At age 44, Mildred Norman left her life circumstances and became Peace Pilgrim -- walking coast to coast for peace for nearly 30 years, living on faith and sharing her wisdom and exhuberance generously with people...
13,524 views · 62%
PBS FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law 56 min
PBS FRONTLINE: Cheney's Law (2007)
If you're experiencing difficulties with this link, please watch the entire film for free at the OFFICIAL PBS FRONTLINE WEBSITE.
13,449 views · 92%
Operation Hollywood 58 min
Operation Hollywood (2004)
Since the 80's, and the success of Top Gun, Hollywood has increased its production of big budget war movies, using military bases, submarines and aircraft carriers that the armed forces have generously made available to the studios. In exchange, the Pentagon's experts vet...
13,302 views · 81%
The American Dream 29 min
The American Dream
The AMERICAN DREAM is a 30 minute animated film that shows you how you've been scammed by the most basic elements of our government system. All of us Americans strive for the American Dream, and this film shows you why your dream is getting farther and farther away. Do you...
westiesworld4u · 13,245 views · 87%
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action 98 min
Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action (2008)
Fueled by the belief that "another world is possible," the film portrays stories of what Martin Luther King called "Love in Action," and Gandhi called "Soul Force"; what Ripper is calling "Fierce Light."
Velcrow Ripper · 13,213 views · 75%
Elizabeth Warren: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class 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, distinguished law scholar Elizabeth Warren analyzes expenses and income of an average American family...
University of California Television (UCTV) · 12,849 views · 88%
Taking Liberties 101 min
Taking Liberties (2007)
Right to Protest, Right to Freedom of Speech. Right to Privacy. Right not to be detained without charge, Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Prohibition from Torture. TAKING LIBERTIES will reveal how these six central pillars of liberty have been systematically destroyed by the New...
12,824 views · 75%
The Meatrix 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 of what’s really going on with the food we eat today. Topics covered are industrial...
mediathatmatters · 12,644 views · 89%
The Most Hated Family in America 3 min
The Most Hated Family in America (trailer)
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...
12,437 views · 42%
Ayn Rand's Philosophical Influence on Neo Conservatives and Her Arguments Against Christian Morality
Ayn Rand's Philosophical Influence on Neo Conservatives and Her Arguments Against Christian Morality
“This odd little woman is attempting to give a moral sanction to greed and self interest,” Gore Vidal saidof Ayn Rand, writing for Esquire in July 1961, “and to pull it off she must at times indulge in purest Orwellian newspeak of the ‘freedom is slavery’ sort.”
Gore Vidal · 12,052 views · 100%
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber 36 min
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber (2008)
State of the Forest is a hard-hitting report on the condition of Indonesia’s rainforest today. Still in the production phase, the film is presented above in 8 parts. Use the playlist button next to the play button to watch parts 2 through 8.Through “a mixture of voices from...
12,002 views · 62%
Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk 86 min
Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk (2006)
The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided.
11,853 views · 88%
LEAKED EMAIL: Republican Pollster Caught Influencing Fox News
LEAKED EMAIL: Republican Pollster Caught Influencing Fox News
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 · 11,852 views · 100%
Slavery: A Global Investigation 88 min
Slavery: A Global Investigation (2000)
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...
11,726 views · 75%
Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Michael Moore: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that I have put up $20,000 of my own money to help bail Mr. Assange out of jail.
Michael Moore · 11,400 views · 100%
Debunking "The Great Global Warming Swindle" 14 min
Debunking "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
Two short debunkings of the British documentary that claimed people are not responsible for global warming. The audio quality of the presentation in part 1 is poor, but this and the video in part 2 are the best video responses we've found that directly critiques the main...
qbrev · 11,391 views · 88%
Not Just A Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (trailer) 6 min
Not Just A Game: Power, Politics & American Sports (trailer)
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...
10,553 views · 88%
It's Official! You're On Your Own
It's Official! You're On Your Own
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 · 10,142 views · unrated
The Earth Charter: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The Earth Charter: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Preamble We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst...
The Earth Charter Initiative · 10,062 views · 100%
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled 61 min
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled (2009)
Poppa Neutrino always said that "rent is the thing that kills us". So he and his wife and 5 kids picked up some instruments and hit the road. The ‘Travelling Neutrinos’ roamed from the USA to Moscow to Mexico. They slept on beaches, befriended circus folk and crossed the...
9,961 views · 75%
Numen: The Nature of Plants (Action Guide)
Numen: The Nature of Plants (Action Guide)
There is a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet and in books exploring different aspects of issues raised in the film.
Films For Action · 9,735 views · 100%
FRACK! New documentary puts controversial gas "fracking" technology under the spotlight
FRACK! New documentary puts controversial gas "fracking" technology under the spotlight
Frack! tells the story of the unconventional gas-drilling ("fracking") frenzy sweeping the Marcellus region, including the Catskills and Upper Delaware River watershed, threatening pristine areas which provide clean drinking water for over 15 million people.  Without a...
David Morris · 9,697 views · 100%
A Girl Like Me 7 min
A Girl Like Me
A Girl Like Me explores the standards of beauty imposed on today's black girls. The film delves beneath the surface in order to show how such standards affect self-esteem and self-image. This seven-minute film has touched the hearts and minds of viewers’ worldwide and serves...
mediathatmatters · 9,581 views · 75%
What Motivated the 9/11 Hijackers? See Testimony Most Didn't 5 min
What Motivated the 9/11 Hijackers? See Testimony Most Didn't
What motivated the 9/11 hijackers to attack the US? It is not because they "hate our freedoms." It is because of the United States foreign policy bias for Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. government support for other oppressive regimes in the Middle East...
Representative Press ☞ · 9,482 views · 83%
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
The food industry is no longer a free market.  In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies fully control the basic building blocks of the food that makes up the majority of the...
Eric Blair · 9,469 views · 100%
Stealing America: Vote by Vote 90 min
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (2008)
STEALING AMERICA unveils patterns of anomalies at every level of the electoral process. Controversial partnerships perpetuate a secretive environment, as relevant facts and figures remain hidden from view. As a result, most Americans have no real sense of the threat to free...
9,166 views · 50%
Economic Hit Men: How The Developed World Robs the Third 17 min
Economic Hit Men: How The Developed World Robs the Third
Riz Khan talks to John Perkins about his book on global corruption. Perkin's book, entitled "Confessions of an Economic Hit man," was on the New York Times best seller list when it was first published in 2004. "Economic hit men," John Perkins writes, "are highly paid...
Al Jazeera English · 9,137 views · 88%
Why Aren't Public Universities More Transparent and Accountable?
Why Aren't Public Universities More Transparent and Accountable?
Over the last six months of researching for my work-in-progress documentary about the pitfalls of American higher education, The Elephant on Campus, there have been many problems I have come across. One of the biggest and least talked about problems is that public...
Michael Newman · 9,012 views · 94%
Orwellian DoubleThink: War is Peace
Orwellian DoubleThink: War is Peace
No need to modernize the phrasing of this most obviously relevant Orwellian slogan. Obama, our Nobel Prince of Peace, continues the endless wars, warrantless and evidence-less detentions, and illegal torture.  The public is kept in an increasing state of fear of a...
Activist Post · 8,898 views · 100%
Right America: Feeling Wronged 45 min
Right America: Feeling Wronged (2009)
On the day Barack Obama was elected the 44th President, more than 58 million voters cast their ballots for John McCain. In the months leading up to this historic election, filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi (Friends of God, The Trials of Ted Haggard) took a road trip to meet some of...
8,830 views · 50%
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet 60 min
Us Now: The Power of Open Collaboration & the Internet (2009)
In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team for Ebbsfleet United's FA Trophy Semi-Final match against Aldershot . Around the world 35,000 other fans are doing the same thing, because together, they own and...
8,553 views · 75%
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability 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 a significant portion of its own food supply?" Composting, a water-conserving greenhouse...
peakmoment · 8,164 views · 75%
Barbershop Punk 2 min
Barbershop Punk (trailer)
In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free market protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero...
8,157 views · 92%
CIA Goes After "9/11: Press for Truth" Producers Nowosielski & Duffy
CIA Goes After "9/11: Press for Truth" Producers Nowosielski & Duffy
On Thursday, September 8, 2011, the CIA issued legal threats against producers Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy on their discovery of the identities of the two key CIA analysts who executed the Tenet-Black-Blee cover-up in the case of two key 9/11 hijackers. The analysts were...
Sibel Edmonds · 8,075 views · unrated
Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown? 27 min
Oil and Gas - The Next Meltdown?
Drawing parallels with the current financial meltdown, Matthew Simmons expresses his alarm about gasoline stocks being the lowest in several decades and refinery production down following recent hurricanes. He warns that if there were a run on the "energy bank" by everyone...
peakmoment · 8,059 views · 100%
Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again
Seoul tears down an urban highway and the city can breathe again
As a sustainability-loving transportation planner, I was thrilled to learn that Dr. Kee Yeon Hwang would be visiting Vancouver and talking about the project that has made Seoul, Korea a legend in urban planning circles: the
Kamala Rao · 7,864 views · 100%
The Sacred Balance 8 min
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.
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Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg 27 min
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg
Tour Janet and Richard’s quarter acre for an example of what’s possible in suburbia. Their front yard of edible plants also provides habitat for birds and insects. The backyard radiates out from an herb and kitchen garden to vegetable beds and containers; 25 fruit and nut...
peakmoment · 7,698 views · 44%
Shane Collins: Peak Oil, Drugs & Crime 18 min
Shane Collins: Peak Oil, Drugs & Crime
During a talk at the Urban Green Fair in Brockwell Park, south London Green Party Member Shane Collins discusses the need for government and social shifts in order to adapt to a changing world where oil levels are diminishing and drug crimes are still destroying communities.
myndzcommunity · 7,576 views · 75%
Why the U.S. Has a Quarter of the World's Prisoners 3 min
Why the U.S. Has a Quarter of the World's Prisoners
I can think of no greater hell on earth than spending day after day in a little box. What about non-violent offenders? The drug addicts, the bad check writers, the people that are filling up our jails and costing us money? The number of prisoners in prisons for drugs equals...
GOOD Magazine · 7,353 views · 100%
These Old Farts Don't Know Jack 6 min
These Old Farts Don't Know Jack
And they don't give a damn either. That's why the crazy rantings of these old fogies should be viewed purely as entertainment, as fiction, as the wild and deranged fantasies of a generation out of touch with reality. You've been warned. ;)
pennilesscripple · 7,228 views · 100%
Survival International
Survival International
Survival is the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide. We were founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK’s Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. Like many modern...
Films For Action · 7,202 views · 67%
Peak Oil - Visually Explained 3 min
Peak Oil - Visually Explained
A quick 3 minute video visually explaining Peak Oil, what oil is used for, and what the future may hold with regards to Peak Oil. This is the culmination of the creator's year-long thesis project looking at how Graphic Design can help communicate a complex topic such as Peak...
Scott McLean · 7,147 views · 75%
The War on Kids 95 min
The War on Kids (2010)
Blame for problems with schooling in America is often assigned to insufficient funding or the inherent failings of today's kids. In rare cases, parents, teachers, and administrators are also implicated. However, all efforts to improve the quality of education are doomed to...
Cevin Solig · 6,997 views · 100%
Unwritten Future 48 min
Unwritten Future (2008)
A documentary that looks into the events during the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN. Footage contains excessive use of force and questionable tactics used by police toward activists. It also includes interviews with citizens, asking them what they are...
6,909 views · 50%
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