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Volontia - Fighting the spread of HIV in Vanuatu, 'the happiest country in the world' 12 min
'Voluntia' follows a group of local Ni-Van volunteers, who are working hard to raise awareness about safe sex. Fighting the spread of STI's including HIV/ AIDs throughout the pacific island communities of Vanuatu.
Team Tibet 31 min
"Team Tibet", follows a group of Tibetans living in exile in India, who want Tibet to be able to take part in the 2008 Olympics. Filmed August 2007 in McLeod Ganj and Delhi, it asks: Why did they flee Tibet? What is the situation in Tibet under Chinese occupation? What are...
Humano 88 min
Humano is a documentary that narrates a young man's journey to the Andes mountains, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the yearning to discover the origin of man. In Q'eros, he meets a shaman who will explain that before answering his questions, he must...
There are over 6,000 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness on just about every topic related to making the world a better place.
Trump is a Symptom, Not the Problem 3 min
Check out the Jimmy Dore Show.
Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.
License To Parent 63 min
License to Parent is a documentary film that focuses on the lack of any requirements needed for parenting. The film looks at people's stories--men, women, and children whose paths in life were set by the family to which they were born.
Dominion 120 min
Dominion uses drones, hidden and handheld cameras to expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture, questioning the morality and validity of humankind’s dominion over the animal kingdom. While mainly focusing on animals used for food, it also explores other ways...
In response to my recent newsletter, which I named “Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning as a Response to Patriarchy”, I received two comments from men that led me to choose to write this piece. In two very different ways they pointed me to the reality that the word...
What Is Toxic Masculinity? 7 min
You may have bumped into the term toxic masculinity during your travels around the internet. It usually shows up in connection with particularly abusive male behavior, but what does it really mean?
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as
Ever since the Brexit referendum was first announced, we have been bombarded by an array of starkly contradictory pronouncements – from the Leave camp’s now infamous claim that withdrawal from the EU would release £350 million a week for the NHS to the former Chancellor...
Identity: In & Beyond The Binary 64 min
This 60 min documentary features trans, genderqueer, butch and queer people interviewed on their varied experiences with gender identity. Addressing topics from hormones to employment to growing up, "Identity" is a series of enlightening and heartfelt interviews.
The Wholeness of Life Kanyini is best expressed in English as the combination of the two words ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Unconditional Love’, but it is actually a relationship; it is an enormous caring with no limit – it has no timeframe: it is eternal. – Uncle Bob...
Who Cares? 93 min
“Just who is changing the world?”
In my recent essay, I argued that power in our societies resides in structure, ideology and narratives – supporting what we might loosely term our current “neoliberal order” – rather than in individuals. Significantly, our political and media classes, who are of course deeply...
I rarely tell readers what to believe. Rather I try to indicate why it might be wise to distrust, at least without very good evidence, what those in power tell us we should believe.
Pedalling and Paddling - Two Climate Tales From Lancaster 76 min
In December 2015 a group of Lancaster climate activists set off to to join up with a mass cycle from London to Paris for the COP21 climate talks. Their intention was to add their voice to the grass roots call for meaningful action now to curb the worrying rise in CO2 levels...
Here's a PLAN to get us out of this CLIMATE MESS - Friends of the Earth Europe 2 min
You’ve heard the news about climate breakdown. It’s bad. BUT WE CAN GET OUT OF THIS MESS - if we act now and act together for a #fossilfree Europe....
We need new and better options for helping the world.
I was at the beach the other day with some friends and after a rousing game of ‘apprehend the frisbee before it nails an unsuspecting stranger,’ we all settled on the sand to chat and observe our fellow beachgoers.
Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide — erasing the memory of the Taíno from our nation’s classrooms
Land of Hope and Glory 49 min
The hidden truth behind UK animal farming - featuring approximately 100 facilities across the UK and never before seen undercover footage. Activist Earthling Ed produces and narrates this 'UK Earthlings documentary' with over a decade of undercover footage and Animal...
Exploring how altruism can drive a new global operating system.
International Day of the Girl - When I Grow Up… A Short Film by ONE 2 min
Around the world, millions of girls can’t choose their future, because #PovertyisSexist.
A Phrase Coined Hip Hop - Birth of Hip Hop 4 min
Legendary DJ Jazzy Jay explains how the phrase Hip Hop was coined.
The US government does not represent the interests of the majority of the country's citizens, but is instead ruled by those of the rich and powerful, a new study from Princeton and Northwestern Universities has concluded. The report, entitled Testing Theories of American...
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Brett Kavanaugh: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 30 min
John Oliver discusses the ongoing controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh, the sexual assault allegations against him, his Supreme Court nomination, and what that could all mean for the highest (mostly-dog) court in the land.
How We Know Kavanaugh Is Lying: Top 5 Times He Committed Perjury 16 min
Read the accompanying 10,000-word essay on his deceptions here, via Current Affairs magazine.
En tiempo de dragones: el documental 39 min
En Tiempo de Dragones busca analizar la manera en que las nuevas tecnologías afectan a los jóvenes. El efecto de esta nueva coyuntura es colectivo, tanto los jóvenes como las generaciones anteriores lidian día a día con la incertidumbre. Un trabajo de Novo Lenox. Un colectivo...
Homelessness: A Capitalist Problem 15 min
Video about homelessness in the modern age.
Unity 100 min
100 celebrities narrate this enlightening documentary that re-examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, ponders our place in the universe, while taking viewers on an epic journey through the history of civilization and beyond. In this compassionate and inspiring...
How many men have come forward and confessed to committing rape or sexual assault in the public eye?
From Shock to Awe 2 min
From Shock to Awe asks, ‘how do we heal our deepest wounds?’ An intimate and raw look at the transformational journey of two combat veterans suffering from severe trauma as they abandon pharmaceuticals to seek relief through the mind-expanding world of psychedelics. Recent...
"Elites" aren't accustomed to adversity, being challenged, or having their birthright entitlements questioned. They coast through their prep schools and Ivy League, and slide into their preordained adult lives without ever experiencing the daily struggles of working people...
Edmund Hillary Fellowship: Build the Future in New Zealand 3 min
The Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) brings together visionary entrepreneurs, investors, and change-makers to build solutions to global problems from Aotearoa New Zealand. International Fellows receive exclusive access to New Zealand’s new Global Impact Visa, an open work visa...
Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability 56 min
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
The Ride | MND Association 2 min
Imagine a terrifying rollercoaster ride where every turn and loop brings you closer to death... Around 5,000 people are stuck on this ride right now in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. That's why they need your help. Your donation can fund care support and research to...
Awareness Film Festival 2018 3 min
Join us for Awareness Film Festival - Sept. 27 - Oct. 7, 2018
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 79 min
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and...
"Despite our best efforts to eradicate racism, it comes back like a toxic weed because we fail to pull it up by its root."
1968 - The GlobalRevolt 2 min
The four-part documentary 1968 – The Global Revolt looks at 10 years of upheaval between 1965 and 1975 – an era whose legacy divides opinion to this day.
Dr. Vandana Shiva on food and its effects on us and our planet 12 min
In this bonus interview Physicist, Activist and Alternative Nobel Laureate, Dr. Vandana Shiva discusses the importance of educating ourselves about food and its effects on us and our planet, the broken system of animal agriculture and her hopes for a better, more united future.
Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels 12 min
In June this year, I spent two and a half months converting a 1986 Toyota Hiace into my home and office. Watch the camper conversion process and also see a tour of the finished van! - Jordan Osmond
Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living 49 min
Tony Wrench of Wales had a natural building that radically challenged and altered the government’s policy on low impact housing. This paved the way for Lammas - the UK’s first planned ecovillage, on brilliant display in this film.
If a man offers to help a woman with her heavy suitcase or to parallel park her car, what should she make of the offer?
Protecting Kybra 3 min
This is "Protecting Kybra" a glimpse into efforts by the Wadandi-Pibelmun People of southwestern Australia to protect a rock art site from degradation, including 3D modelling technologies.
Sacred Earth 41 min
“Sacred Earth” by Emmy Award® winning director Jan Nickman is a unique Nature Immersion Experience through the stunning beauty of the Sacred Lands of the American Southwest. White sand deserts, ancient slot canyons and the stunning red rock landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico...
Offline Is The New Luxury 47 min
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline?
The United States has repeatedly accused the Russian and Iranian governments of using social media to spread “disinformation” and foment chaos. Under US government pressure, Big Tech corporations have banned large numbers of accounts accused (in some cases falsely) of being...
Dear Future 3 min
Dear Future is Motherboard and CNET's new documentary series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us. Fusion energy, DIY off-grid energy systems, decentralized mesh networks, the search for life on other planets, and humanoid robots...
Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction. She...
SAYEIK: Destroying Villages, Building Mountains 24 min
A documentary film which discusses the importance of place names (toponyms) in the preservation of Alaska Native languages. The burning of Douglas Indian Village in 1962, and construction of Gastineau Elementary School over Tlingit graves in 1953.
A Beginners Guide To Occupy 5 min
A general introduction to the motivation behind the Occupy movement. This film is by no means an extensive documentary of the agenda but more of a general overview for anyone who doesn't understand what it's all about. I
Before You Have Sex, Watch This 4 min
Some people claim THIS is better than sex. Do You Agree? - Prince Ea
Future Dreaming 54 min
Future Dreaming is a remarkable documentary that will challenge the way you think about humanity. The film explores the narratives that drive our economic, social and political thinking and offers a new way of understanding the Human Condition.
Most people have passed through some kind of initiation in life. By that, I mean a crisis that defies what you knew and what you were. From the rubble of the ensuing collapse, a new self is born into a new world.
Change comes in waves, like the ocean, like sound, or ripples on a lake. Sometimes it’s all action – Occupy, the Arab Spring, the summer of 1968. Sometimes it feels like nothing’s happening, nothing’s ever going to happen, no matter how hard you try. Or even that things are...
Venturing into Sacred Space | Archetype of the Magician 13 min
Like Stories of Old: In this conclusion of my Archetype Series based on the book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette, I examine the archetype of the Magician and explore some related concepts such as initiation, ritual process and sacred space.
The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone 7 min
When kings went out of style, that impulse didn’t leave with them; it simply found a different way of manifesting.
Live Your Best Life - Without Even Trying (Inspirational Movie) 8 min
We so often live in the feeling of lack, that there is not enough to be who we are. But life can be so much more. We can choose to live in abundance, in harmony with who we are. Are you ready for a change?
WE ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN WE THINK
How a New Aristocracy's Segregation Puts Stress on Society 8 min
Growing class division is destabilizing our society, argues author and philosopher Matthew Stewart in a provocative Atlantic magazine cover story. He says there's a group in between the top 0.1 percent and bottom 90 percent that plays an important role in running the economy...
Succeed In Any Argument (Keys to handling disagreements) 7 min
Remember that disagreements in business and relationships are healthy and good, as long as they don't turn into an argument. Here are 9 rules to keep a disagreement from turning into an uncontrollable argument.
How The Last Jedi Defies Expectations 21 min
The Last Jedi is a movie that’s designed to defy fan expectations. Nowhere is this subversion more evident than in the way the film handles its three male heroes: X-Wing pilot Poe Dameron, renegade Stormtrooper Finn, and legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. // Pop Culture...
Our society is environmentally, economically and psychologically unsustainable.  We are already living beyond the means of our planet, we have high levels of inequality, and we are increasingly suffering from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.  As our society is...
Peace to you; if you’re willing to fight for it” – Fred Hampton The “founding fathers” deliberately arranged a system of governance that would protect the wealthy minority from the majority. Over time, as it fused with capitalism, this arrangement transformed the US...
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This Is Neoliberalism: Keynesian Embedded Liberalism (Part 2) 36 min
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the series for you. Neoliberalism was a reaction. It was an effort to disassemble a previous vision of society that once held sway over most of the world. In order to understand neoliberalism, it’s important...
A dear friend of mine passed away in 2016. He was a lifelong revolutionary activist and quite possibly the most interesting man in the world (sorry, Dos Equis guy). His name was Kwame Somburu, formerly Paul Boutelle.
I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home.
Viva Australis - Tiempo Circular 4 min
This is a videoclip about the cycle of nature and how tiny we are as humans in our planet. Everyone who was born  here will be part of this cycle and will be part of it forever , because we are one being.
This Restaurant Takeout Service Swaps Styrofoam for Sustainable 5 min
After big cities like San Francisco banned businesses from using styrofoam containers, a woman from Durham, North Carolina, who was fed up with the plastic trash began her own crusade. When her efforts toward passing a local ban failed, she decided to focus on small-scale...
Voices of Transition 65 min
This inspirational film presents innovative and very concrete solutions to the food security challenges of our crisis-ridden age. Its powerful images showcase community-led agriculture in Cuba, ingenious woodland farming methods in France and the influential Transition...
Environmentally, socially and psychologically our society is unsustainable. If consumption continues to increase at current rates, by 2050 we will need 3 Earths to sustain us (United Nations, 2015). Socially, income inequality is at the highest level in 50 years in OECD...
American Anarchist 2 min
This is the story of one of the most infamous books ever written, The Anarchist Cookbook, and the role it's played in the life of its author, now 65, who wrote it at the age of 19 in the midst of the counter-culture upheaval of the late 1960s and early ‘70s.
Alt-Right: Age Of Rage 3 min
In the first year of Donald J. Trump's presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the alt-right movement, while Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.
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The Disturbing History of the Suburbs 7 min
Redlining: the racist housing policy from the Jim Crow era that still affects us today.
Women go through their female cycle around 450 times in their lifetime. 450 times of bleeding. But also 450 times of ”letting go, letting a dying thing leave their own body, becoming new, regenerating and waxing and waning, not unlike the moon and tides.”* Alas, the average...
Movement, perception, thinking, effortless achievement and healing are inherent to life—they happen by themselves. When we observe children learning to walk or speak, ecosystems regenerating themselves, or animals self-organizing, we notice there’s a masterful way of...
Two top candidates say Congress should decriminalize unauthorized border crossings entirely, while aspiring U.S. Sen. Beto O’Rourke argues asylum-seekers should be exempted from illegal entry prosecution.
A Kaleidoscopic Culture: The Changing Colours of Women in the MENA Region 24 min
Womenquake interviewed women, men and youth on the way they see women and their social role in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region.
All the Financial Advice You’ll Ever Need Fits On a Single Index Card 8 min
At first glance, fiscal planning can seem more complex and time-consuming than it’s worth. But according to Professor Harold Pollack of the University of Chicago, you can fit all the financial advice you’ll ever really need on a single index card. Economics correspondent Paul...
PERIODE 28 4 min
An ode to periods.
Short film from Sumatran Orangutan Society shows Jungle Book characters homeless across the world 2 min
The homes of orangutans and many other animals in Sumatra are being destroyed.
The future we long for is alive and well in the more hopeful corners of our heart.
Beware Of Images 160 min
From cave paintings to virtual reality, Beware of Images embarks on a fascinating journey through the history of mediated representation. This is the history of media you will never find on TV.
Inequality - How Wealth Becomes Power 42 min
Germany is one of the world’s richest countries, but inequality is on the rise. The wealthy are pulling ahead, while the poor are falling behind. [Online until: 17 September 2018]
Men's Movement 2.0 - Raw Man Experience 4 min
Herman Ottoson of the Raw Man leads a group at the Nordic Men's Gathering - part of the launch of Men's Movement 2.0.
Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs and Prisons 23 min
Healing Trauma dives into the inner struggle of former gang members whose abusive childhoods inevitably lead to an anger that resulted in a criminal lifestyle and landed them in prison. Upon their release, these former gang members found their redemption with Homeboy...
Stoicism in The Shawshank Redemption – A Few Meditations 11 min
The Stoic Philosophy of The Shawshank Redemption, presented in a few brief meditations based on the writings by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus and Chrysippus. Video by Like Stories of Old.
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal.  This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees?  Do they have souls?  Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
Be A Mentor 10 min
“Be A Mentor” is a bilingual English/Spanish mentoring recruitment video short created by documentarian James E. Sanders, Jr. and Producer/Mentor Catherine Lee. It begins to explore the 10-year-old mentoring program at Beacon Hill Academy (BHA) in San Antonio, Texas. At BHA...
President Trump’s recent bawling at NATO was not the summit of his imbecility. No sir.
Matt Orfalea Interviews White Nationalists Attending "Unite the Right 2" in DC | August 12, 2018 4 min
I wanted to meet the people that many want to punch in the face without having met them. The conversation with 2 guys from Stormfront Action Radio was cut short when we arrived at the final destination. I left the group to get a wide shot with my camera and cops would not let...
Dear White Nationalists, White Rights Activists, and Neo-Nazis | Unite the Right protest in DC 3 min
August 12, 2018 - Support independent media! ▶ https://www.patreon.com/Orf Matt Orfalea
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