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“The person who claims the legitimacy of the authority always bears the burden of justifying it. And if they can’t justify it, it’s illegitimate and should be dismantled. To tell you the truth, I don’t really understand anarchism as being much more than that.”
—Noam...
Bruce E. Levine
3 min
The Australien Government has made an ad about West Papua and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
11 min
In this interview, American physician and researcher Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. explains in detail the harmful effects animal products have on our bodies, and how in regions where people have a plant based diet heart disease is non-existent.
Thanksgiving is an important time, when schools teach the story of who we are and where we come from as a nation.
Sarah B Shear
5 min
This short film exposes the emotional, psychological and physical damage that can be done when children are imprisoned – even with their families.
2 min
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It was a moment of the kind that changes lives. At a press conference held by Extinction Rebellion last week, two of us journalists pressed the activists on whether their aims were realistic. They have called, for example, for carbon emissions in the UK to be reduced to net...
George Monbiot
10 min
A minimalist breaks down the biggest shopping day of the year.
42 min
The Monsanto Papers investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, #Roundup.
6 min
A 6-minute video on who Fred Hampton was and why he was assassinated at the age of 21.
4 min
A series time lapses filmed around the Exmouth region of North West Australia showing the beauty and the future challenges facing us with the ever looming danger of climate change.
Fall leaves are not a nuisance. They’re part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do […] HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?
— R. Buckminster Fuller
We cannot individually comprehend the range, depth and detail of the consequences we are collectively generating for...
Daniel Christian Wahl
23 min
A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures' systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is inevitable or "evolutionary" and argues that we need to reduce the distance...
10 min
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma On The People Of America? Today's video features Dr. Gabor Maté a renowned expert in addiction and trauma - here he is diagnosing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Obama! Check out the full Under The Skin episode here.
What is happening to Assange should terrify the press. And yet his plight is met with indifference and sneering contempt.
Chris Hedges
There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called...
George Monbiot
"We can set the legislative agenda with a bold progressive vision rooted in inclusion, fairness, and justice. But none of this is automatic—we have to demand it of Congress."
Jake Johnson
53 min
Since October 2017, America experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides with a frightening resurgence of white nationalism. Sometimes the two trends overlap. But why here? Both phenomena can be explained by a common historical...
136 min
A new 2-part documentary by Reich-Wing Watch looks at the rise of right-wing terrorism in the United States.
121,000 likes and 36,000 shares attest to a powerful story about how change is fought for.
Davis Hammet
Stepping up in the era of Me Too and Total Shutdown.
"The speedy rise of fascism always seems to hit the world by surprise. Yet what we're witnessing did not begin with the Bolsonaros, Trumps or Dutertes, just as German fascism did not begin with Hitler."
A meditation on the midterms, narcissism and causing transformation.
27 min
Is it Spam or Censorship?
46 min
The Solution to Facebook Censorship? Future of Social Media with MINDS Co-founder & CEO Bill Ottman Support my work! ▶https://www.patreon.com/Orf Subscribe ▶https://www.youtube.com/orf Matt Orfalea ▶https://twitter.com/0rf ▶https://medium.com/@0rf...
2 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3gaYQ4e4c4
110 min
A major investigation of Facebook’s impact on privacy and democracy around the world.
6 min
Sarah runs into her old pal Jesus at the polls. With returning guest star Fred Armisen.
Media coverage of tragedies like shootings and bombings is frequently politicized, particularly when jihadism is a factor in perpetrators’ motives. In its coverage of the recent outbreak of conspiracy-fueled far-right wing terrorism, however, many media outlets have rushed to...
Justin Anderson
16 min
This film tells the story of one small family practicing urban sufficiency. They live on 1/10th of an acre in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. By living more simply and utilizing alternative technologies this household draws 75-80% less electricity from the grid than the...
Our minds are connected. This is nothing mystical - but it changes everything.
When a pregnant mother has a drug or alcohol problem, or there is spousal abuse taking place, the effect that has on a child can be devastating.
33 min
We need a ban on factory farming! Take action today!
Cult leaders arise from decayed communities and societies in which people have been shorn of political, social and economic power. The disempowered, infantilized by a world they cannot control, gravitate to cult leaders who appear omnipotent and promise a return to a mythical...
Chris Hedges
Have you ever felt like you just don’t belong? Like you’re a pink chicken in a field of graceful giraffes, or that perhaps you came to the wrong planet? Certainly many people seem to feel this way, either about their families, or their community, their sexuality and culture...
Azriel ReShel
9 min
In this interview animal behaviourist Dr. Marc Bekoff talks about the complex emotional lives of animals, what humans can learn from them and his desire for a more peaceful future without slaughterhouses or factory farms.
This thing we call female body-image - the relationship which women have to our own bodies - is, without doubt, in need of urgent attention. I know from my own deep exploration of the subject, that as a woman, I am unable to really separate my own sense of self from the...
Ayla Amano
23 min
Watch the entire TED Talk with Julian Assange in Part 2.
42 min
The Life-Changing Cosmology is a poetic and challenging journey through the Danish writer Martinus' world picture.
How to make simple living go viral.
35 min
RIPPLE EFFECT is a short documentary film that shows how essential a life skills education is to all young people. There are many issues facing our children: bullying, substance abuse, violence, lack of employability, and graduating high school. RIPPLE EFFECT demonstrates how...
4 min
85 min
July 2018. The European media claim that the austerity cure in Greece has been successful and that peace has returned. This film proves the opposite. A musical journey, from the north to the south of Greece, among those who dream of love and revolution. 5 years after "Let’s...
When Blue Hess was with his biological family, both his parents and their extended family abused and neglected him and his siblings. They had drug abuse problems, and problems with alcohol. According to Blue, his dad would beat and punch him all the time.
9 min
In this second of our special bonus interviews, animal behaviourist Dr. Marc Bekoff talks about the complex emotional lives of animals, what humans can learn from them and his desire for a more peaceful future without slaughterhouses or factory farms.
16 min
Every year, more than twenty million people – an average of one person every second – are displaced because of climate-related disasters, such as floods, droughts, rising sea levels, and storms. They are forced to leave their homes and migrate elsewhere, either temporarily or...
Greetings from Trumplandia, also known as the second congressional district of Maine, which is now polling for Donald Trump. I have called Lewiston, Maine, home since 2001 when I moved there for university as a teenager. I am currently finishing a Ph.D. in Quebec, from where...
Ryan Conrad
7 min
Telling Helena Bourdillon's story is possibly the most important project I’ve ever undertaken.
Are you like me, looking at people you admire and see as successful, and assuming they’ve been lucky in life? That they’ve had it easy? That it’s alright for them?
Yet when you...
31 min
In this video we talk to a retired U.S. retired Army Colonel (31 years) and former Chief of Staff to Secretary of Staff Colin Powell (2002-2005), Prof. Lawrence Wilkerson, about the state of the U.S. Empire, its foreign policy and the ideology and forces that influence it. In...
"Ideological hegemony is the process by which the exploited come to view the world through a conceptual framework provided to them by their exploiters." - Kevin A. Carson
6 min
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23 min
In this video independent economic researcher, author and journalist, Dr. Shir Hever, explains Israel’s "Jewish Nation-State Law", provides context to it and examines its significance.
17 min
In the first part of the interview series with Léonce Ndikumana, Professor of Economics, Director of the African Development Policy Program and member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy, we examine how foreign direct investment, odious debt and capital...
40 min
With images obtained during an investigation carried out in fifty eight slaughterhouses in Mexico between 2015 and 2017, Slaughterhouse is a documentary that takes us into the hermetic world of the meat industry. The footage shows the systematic exploitation and violence...
5 min
Using archive footage I set to create a music video / documentary that captures the spirit of activism and people working together for change.
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.
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...
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.
3 min
Check out the Jimmy Dore Show.
Parenting is the most important role a person can fulfill in their lifetime.
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.
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...
Miki Kashtan
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
Isabella Tree
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...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
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...
Anneloes Smitsman
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...
Jonathan Cook
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.
Jonathan Cook
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...
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.
Brock Armstrong
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
Bill Bigelow
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.
Julyan Davey & Will Franks
2 min
Around the world, millions of girls can’t choose their future, because #PovertyisSexist.
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...
Zachary Davies Boren
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...
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.
16 min
Read the accompanying 10,000-word essay on his deceptions here, via Current Affairs magazine.
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...
15 min
Video about homelessness in the modern age.
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?
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...
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...
56 min
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
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...
3 min
Join us for Awareness Film Festival - Sept. 27 - Oct. 7, 2018
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."
Carlos Hoyt
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.