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Sir Ken Robinson - The Power of Imagination
Sir Ken Robinson - The Power of Imagination
"We have an extraordinary human power... the power of imagination" Ken Robinson
6 min
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
Abby Martin's exclusive interview with former NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander, Leroy Chiao, about US-Russian cooperation in space, life on other words and the reality of the film 'Gravity'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
13 min
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be defined by race, gender, nationality, religion or species) is one of the great challenges and...
13 min
Bullied to Silence (trailer)
Bullied to Silence (trailer)
This is THE Film about Bullying you MUST SEE! Bullied to Silence provides hope and a path for change to anyone who has ever witnessed or experienced being bullied or a bully.
3 min
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Imagine the following exercise: You enter with your spouse, partner or good friend. The purpose is to deepen and improve your relationship through honest communication -- a mutual assessment for growth.
Steve Nelson
Moyers & Company: Politics' Effect on Science & Education
Moyers & Company: Politics' Effect on Science & Education
Astrophysicist and celebrity science advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson recently, and at great length, discussed the importance of scientific literacy with Bill Moyers.
26 min
Slutwalk: A Day In Her Heels
Slutwalk: A Day In Her Heels
Slutwalk. After a local police chief accused college women of dressing like sluts, the students created a demonstration movement called Slutwalk. It is growing and getting attention. Slutwalk was made by students at Rowan University in the documentary production class taught...
17 min
Red Blooded Men
Red Blooded Men
Red Blooded Men is a documentary that covers multiple aspects of college life through a male's perspective. Through various interviews, from Northern Illinois University to the University of Iowa, and other schools across the country, we hope to enlighten audiences about...
23 min
Meditation Transforms Roughest San Francisco Schools
Meditation Transforms Roughest San Francisco Schools
At first glance, Quiet Time - a stress reduction strategy used in several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as in scattered schools around the Bay Area - looks like something out of the om-chanting 1960s. Twice daily, a gong sounds in the classroom and rowdy...
David L. Kirp
Perspectives
Perspectives
Perspectives asks the question: Given all that we know, why does sexual assault happen? "Perspectives" looks at different levels of knowledge (and experience) with sexual assault and rape on college and university campuses in the greater Boston area.
13 min
Invisible Fight
Invisible Fight
Invisible Fight is part documentary and part fictional film, with the focus on highlighting the stupidity and injustice of victim blaming. First-person testimonials of actual survivors of sexual assault are combined with vignettes depicting real world scenarios of assault...
14 min
$5 For Guys, Girls Free
$5 For Guys, Girls Free
$5 for Guys. Girls Free is a re-enacted close-up of the college generation and how quickly a typical night out can go wrong. The story is led by a Spoken Word artist and complemented by a sexual assault Psychologist. We took an interesting twist on the form of documentary and...
16 min
One Country is Digitizing All Books, And Making Them Free For Its Citizens
One Country is Digitizing All Books, And Making Them Free For Its Citizens
The news: Norway is well on its way to digitizing every book in its National Library and making them all free to access for any Norwegian citizen. That means hundreds of thousands of books will be available to anyone accessing the collection online with a Norwegian IP address.
Benjamin Cosman
Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make US Public Colleges Tuition-Free
Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make US Public Colleges Tuition-Free
And the grand total is...
Jordan Weissmann
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm
Valhalla is a sustainable community hell-bent on inspiring people to be the change they wish to see. Together we can create the beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.
4 min
The SOLD Project: Five Years
The SOLD Project: Five Years
Five Years celebrates the power of education to change the life of a child at-risk for sex trafficking. When Mai is solicited by a trafficker to enter the sex trade, we see the influence that education and positive mentorship can have to empower a girl to achieve her dreams...
14 min
The Kingdom of Children
The Kingdom of Children
Have a look at how photography is actually creating futures. Deep in the beautiful mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Picture Aid travels to meet one of the children that are supported with education through a picture hanging on a wall: A 15 year old girl who dreams of becoming a...
10 min
What Most Schools Don't Teach
What Most Schools Don't Teach
Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in 90% of US schools.
6 min
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
The Government Shutdown Opportunity: Public Workers Ignore Washington and Reorganize Cooperatively
Cory Doctorow, guest of honor at the upcoming FenCon science fiction convention in Dallas, notes (“During the shutdown, some scientists can’t talk about science,” Boing Boing, October 4) that some of his fellow speakers will be unable to speak if the government shutdown...
Kevin Carson
Schooling the World
Schooling the World (2010)
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
66 min
When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'
When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'
Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?
Liam O'Ceallaigh
9/11 in the Academic Community
9/11 in the Academic Community (trailer)
Coming this Fall of 2013 -- A Winner of the 2011 University of Toronto Film Festival, the film examines the academic community's treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government's narrative from scholarly examination.
3 min
School Is a Prison - And Damaging Our Kids
School Is a Prison - And Damaging Our Kids
Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work.
Peter Gray
Let's End the Pledge of Allegiance in Schools
Let's End the Pledge of Allegiance in Schools
Just in time for back to school: In Massachusetts this week, a venerable classroom tradition is facing a high court challenge. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court is currently weighing an atheist couple’s argument that the words “under God” be  struck from the Pledge of...
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
Ripping Off Young America: The College-Loan Scandal
Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone
The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today
The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today (2010)
"The Lord is Not On Trial Here Today" is a Peabody Award-winning documentary by Jay Rosenstein that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and how her efforts to protect her ten-year-old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases...
56 min
College? No Thanks.
College? No Thanks.
At TED talks, the most viewed video — now surpassing 14 million hits — is “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” by England’s Sir Ken Robinson.
Thomas Larson
Documentary Film Flowchart: Choose a Great Film Based on Your Mood
Documentary Film Flowchart: Choose a Great Film Based on Your Mood
Documentary films are not only wildly entertaining, but also serve as a powerful and engaging educational tool. As quality documentary films continue to be produced around the globe, we encourage teachers to take advantage and enlighten their students with some of these...
Chris Ingrao
CIA Popularized "Conspiracy Theory" Term to Silence Dissent
CIA Popularized "Conspiracy Theory" Term to Silence Dissent
Abby Martin talks to Lance deHaven-Smith, Florida State University professor and author of 'Conspiracy Theory in America', about some of the US' most controversial events and how labeling truth-seekers as 'conspiracy theorists' damages democracy. For further reading...
11 min
Who's Afraid of Howard Zinn's Radical History?
Who's Afraid of Howard Zinn's Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States A recent Associated Press expose—drawing on e-mails obtained under the Freedom of Information Act—revealed that in 2010, Mitch Daniels, then Indiana’s Republican governor, covertly set out...
Sonia Murrow & Robert Cohen
Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs
Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs
As parents begin to seek a more gentle method of discipline, they often start by dropping the obvious punishments, such as spanking or removal of unrelated privileges. Finding themselves without tools to enforce their instructions, they begin to rely heavily on traditional...
The Hippie Housewife
Art Saved My Life
Art Saved My Life (trailer)
Filmmaker Damon Lee Patterson attempts to immortalize the power of art in his feature documentary Art Saved My Life. The film aims to prove art has the power to transform, heal, progress, enrich, and even saves someones life.
4 min
The Edible Playground
The Edible Playground
The Edible Playground - a film about an inner city school where children are able to turn their playground into a vegetable garden!
5 min
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Use the Fed for an Absurd Thing: To Help Students Instead of Wall St.
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Use the Fed for an Absurd Thing: To Help Students Instead of Wall St.
In historic breakthrough, Mass. Sen. Elizabeth Warren offers bill to force the Federal Reserve to finance student loans at 0.75% with no cost to taxpayers; measure embodies principles needed for US economic recovery from current depression. I urge a...
Webster Tarpley
Frustrated With Growing Up? Watch This Video
Frustrated With Growing Up? Watch This Video
Apparently, empathy and enlightenment can be found right at the check-out counter. So can boredom and frustration. Freedom is realizing I have the choice.
9 min
When Kids Recite The Pledge of Allegiance in School This Is Basically What They're Saying
When Kids Recite The Pledge of Allegiance in School This Is Basically What They're Saying
Nationalism in schools - yeah it's gonna sound kind of creepy no matter what country you do it in.
2 min
A Cosmic Journey into the Fractal Universe
A Cosmic Journey into the Fractal Universe
The realm we exist in is so unimaginably huge, yet so incredibly detailed. We couldn't even begin to comprehend the true complexity of this cosmic domain. 
6 min
The World Becomes What You Teach
The World Becomes What You Teach
This video is a popular TEDx talk by Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (www.HumaneEducation.org). She is a pioneer in the comprehensive humane education movement and speaks and lectures throughout the world.
17 min
Educating on respect
Educating on respect
What is an animal sanctuary? Click the CC icon for English subtitles. El Hogar de Luci shows you its project: El Hogar. A place of respect for farm animals rescued of a certain death from the meat, dairy and eggs industry. An on-line tour to explain our daily work, not...
30 min
Solar Mamas
Solar Mamas (2012)
SOLAR MAMAS: Are women better at getting out of poverty than men?
58 min
The Gift of Learning
The Gift of Learning
The Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship commissioned ITN to make this short film to look at some of the key features of a Steiner School including: - how Steiner Schools nurture spiritual development in keeping with the cultural setting of the school and without being tied to...
11 min
Is Scott Noble’s Film, “Human Resources,” a Masterpiece?
Is Scott Noble’s Film, “Human Resources,” a Masterpiece?
Seeing gurneys of babies trundled through the chiaroscuro of old black-and-white footage at the start of Scott Noble’s Human Resources, the gurneys in the tunnels of God only knows what kind of institution, the viewer does well to brace herself for the coming onslaught. 
David Ker Thomson
Class Dismissed
Class Dismissed (trailer)
This is the new teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary Class Dismissed : A Film About Learning Outside of the Classroom. For more information and to find out how you can help see this film to completion please visit http://www.homeschoolfilm.com  The movie should be...
2 min
Education Education - Why Poverty?
Education Education - Why Poverty? (2012)
In China, education is considered the only way out of poverty. But as the nation’s higher education system has largely been privatized by for-profit companies, the future for millions of students is bleak. College is less accessible to Chinese youth than ever before, and...
59 min
The Case Against Competition
The Case Against Competition
When it comes to competition, we Americans typically recognize only two legitimate positions: enthusiastic support and qualified support. The first view holds that the more we immerse our children (and ourselves) in rivalry, the better. Competition builds character and...
Alfie Kohn
Two Spirits (trailer)
Two Spirits (trailer)
Fred Martinez was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and death of a boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender
2 min
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil (2011)
Today, 27 million men, women and children are held, sold and trafficked as slaves throughout the world. In Slavery: A 21st Century Evil, Rageh Omaar embarks on a worldwide journey to uncover the truth about the flourishing 21st century slave trade. Episode by episode, his...
223 min
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Teaching you how to meet your neighbors, grow food together, share the harvest and create a life that excites you.
The Food is Free Project
Join 1.1 Million People in Supporting the Student Loan Forgiveness Act
Join 1.1 Million People in Supporting the Student Loan Forgiveness Act
America has over $1 trillion of outstanding student debt. Over the last 30 years, the cost of college has skyrocketed, increasing by over 800 percent! In these tough economic times many are wondering how to balance the monstrous debt they have accrued while they struggle...
Films For Action
The Revisionaries
The Revisionaries (2012) (trailer)
Once every decade, the 15 members of the Texas Board of Education meet in Austin to revise the state's textbook standards. Led by Don McLeroy, a Young Earth Creationist, the panel will debate and implement new standards related to science, evolution, social studies, and...
2 min
The Failures of 'Race to the Top' and 'No Child Left Behind'
The Failures of 'Race to the Top' and 'No Child Left Behind'
Welcome to standardized testing season, when students nationwide are clearing their desks, sharpening their pencils and fighting feelings of anxiety to meet our schools’, states’, and federal government’s desire for a simple, quantifiable way to measure them. Is this really...
7 min
Healthy Homework Guidelines: A New Vision for Homework
Healthy Homework Guidelines: A New Vision for Homework
Together we can transform homework and encourage schools nationwide to reexamine and reimagine homework practices to better support student engagement, health and learning with healthy homework guidelines.
5 min
'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Is a Slick Marketing Piece Full of Half-Truths and Distortions
'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Is a Slick Marketing Piece Full of Half-Truths and Distortions
Davis Guggenheim's 2010 film Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions. The film suggests the problems in education are the fault of teachers and teacher unions alone, and it asserts that the solution to those problems is a greater...
Rick Ayers
The Forbidden Education
The Forbidden Education (2012)
The school has been around for more than 200 years and is still considered the main form of access to education. Today, the school and education are concepts widely discussed in academia, public policy, educational institutions, media and civil society spaces. Since its...
145 min
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
The Ultimate History Lesson is a 5-hour course, illustrating the cause and effect relationship of how Americans became incoherent, and thus how the American dream has was usurped by an international agenda.
300 min
Plant a Seed
Plant a Seed
To make a difference, one must be the difference. Get involved with the global project and help shift consciousness at http://ParadigmShiftCentral.com/plantaseed and https://facebook.com/events/373284992739951/
5 min
Alfie Kohn: No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning
Alfie Kohn: No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning (trailer)
In a thought-provoking presentation, Alfie Kohn makes a compelling case that two traditional features of schooling -- grades and homework -- are not only unnecessary but actually undermine students’ interest in learning. This trailer is made up of 4 clips from the DVD. Click...
5 min
How Films for Action Began, and Where It's Headed
How Films For Action Began, and Where It's Headed
This is a little window into our strategy to help catalyze a Global Paradigm Shift
Tim Hjersted
The Case Against Grades
The Case Against Grades
"I remember the first time that a grading rubric was attached to a piece of my writing….Suddenly all the joy was taken away.  I was writing for a grade -- I was no longer exploring for me.  I want to get that back.  Will I ever get that back?"-- Claire, a student (in Olson...
Alfie Kohn
The Perversion of Scholarship
The Perversion of Scholarship
Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities. Scholarship, inquiry, self-criticism, moral autonomy and a search for artistic and esoteric forms of expression—in short, the world of ethics...
Chris Hedges