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Want to have a pervasive effect on the subconscious attitudes of our culture? Get into the entertainment business.
10 min · 4.9 stars
Animated sequences from the feature documentary H2Oilexplain, in a nutshell, the issues and problems associated with oil/tar sands production in Canada. You can view the full film here.
3 min · 4.9 stars
Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill Moyers to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism's wake, and discusses how to battle for economic justice. A noted professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and now visiting professor at Manhattan's New...
44 min · 4.9 stars
The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, Were fucked.
Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen · 4.9 stars
When whales were at their historic populations, before their numbers were reduced, it seems that whales might have been responsible for removing tens of millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere every year. Whales change the climate. The return of the great whales, if...
5 min · 4.8 stars
A discussion on Kings vision of economic justice, and how so little has changed for Americas most oppressed.
33 min · 4.9 stars
Peter Joseph is the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, a grassroots, worldwide organization that advocates an alternative economic system based on sustainability, cooperation and human need. His most recent book, The New Human Rights Movement, delivers a startling expos about...
45 min · 4.9 stars
We live in the beginning phase of a global revolution which will turn societal conditions upside down. We cannot stop this transformation, but we can influence where it will go. Will the disintegration of the globalized systems lead to fascist violence and molecular civil...
Martin Winiecki · 4.9 stars
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned -- and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted...
Johann Hari · 4.8 stars
Ivan Illichs groundbreaking bookDeschooling Society(1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the school...
Daniel Lattier · 4.9 stars
Since 1980, we have militarily intervened at least 35 times in more than 27 countries. We keep bombing, we continue spending trillions of dollars, but we're no safer as a result. WATCH MORE.
2 min · 4.8 stars
Wake up to your own role in creating a new future. This new perspective of the current state of our planet features top scientific, indigenous and activist minds from around the world. Now available for the first-time ever on video, TheAwakening the Dreamer, Changing the...
90 min · 4.7 stars
Nationalism in schools - yeah it's gonna sound kind of creepy no matter what country you do it in.
2 min · 4.8 stars
This consumer madness is consuming us.
4 min · 4.7 stars
What are modern workplaces doing to people? Umair Haque suggests they are turning them into assholes.
Umair Haque · 4.7 stars
The Emotional World of Farm Animals is a delightful documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals that are all too often just viewed as food.
56 min · 4.8 stars
With this film, I'm trying to tell a wider story about what is happening to my city through the inspiring words and passion of Vanessa Garrett, owner of Food For Thought in Covent Garden, London. I first visited the restaurant with my mother in the 80's and it has remained...
8 min · 4.8 stars
The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were run by those who followed the rules.
2 min · 4.8 stars
Is it melancholy to think that a world that Robin Williams cant live in must be broken? To tie this sad event to the overarching misery of our times?
Russell Brand · 4.8 stars
This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin is a documentary about the historic nonviolent Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December 2019, but covers so much more.
84 min · 4.8 stars
We may have many answers...but do we ask the right questions? My name is Spencer Cathcart and this is the first short film I have released since "The Lie We Live" in 2015. In this video I question our relationship with life on this planet.
5 min · 4.8 stars
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...
53 min · 4.8 stars
Congratulations to the United States Govt. for just accumulating $18 Trillion in debt! But no worries let's look at some of the biggest reasons why YOU don't need to worry about it.
2 min · 4.8 stars
Sometimes it seems like we live in nonsensical times. Do you ever wonder what happened to good old common sense? Indigenous voices from around the world who are fighting for cultural survival and protection of nature in their homelands offer simple wisdom in the face of...
Rucha Chitnis · 4.9 stars
What role does art play in the transition to a new kind of world? This video explores this question with beautiful sounds, images and ideas that will likely leave your imagination stimulated with evocative dreams and visions of your own.
10 min · 5 stars
Over the past few weeks, Redneck Revolt has been communicating with a former member of a III% Patriot Militia based out of Ohio. Peter made contact with our organization after questioning the basis for an upcoming operation that his local militia group was asked to be...
6 min · 5 stars
Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use up Earth's limited resources, but they are less happy and...
5 min · 4.8 stars
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia to the UNHuman Rights Council, leaked diplomatic cables have revealed the UKwas a key player in the election of the Gulf State despite the Saudis appalling human rights record.
Michaela Whitton · 5 stars
Boomerang Bags presents the Bag Monster in an initative to promote the use of reusable bags, reducing plastics and fostering sustainable behaviour among local communities. For more information about the initiative, and to get involved visit www.boomerangbags.org or find us at...
4 min · 5 stars
Noam Chomsky on the relationship between capitalism and democracy.Deleted scene from the documentary "Can We Do It Ourselves?"
4 min · 5 stars
We are in the middle of a growing housing crisis (the UK is in breach of its own United Nations human rights commitment to provide people with adequate homes) which is resulting in a social cleansing of London. This film looks at the West Hendon Estate, Barnet, where over 600...
15 min · 5 stars
Seriously, though, come on, guys.
Emil Mella · 5 stars
In this myth shattering, information packed documentary, learn from physicians and leading researchers about medicinal cannabis and its demonstrated affects on human health.
47 min · 5 stars
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer's original words. He draws upon James Baldwin's notes on the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
93 min · 5 stars
Dan Mathews reveals common misconception in how we deal with banks. Watch and laugh as Dan catches our politicians off guard with some simple questions. These questions are simple, but you'd be surprised who actually has trouble answering.
96 min · 5 stars
Leaked UN report calls on governments around the world to decriminalise drug use and possession for personal consumption for all drugs
Richard Branson · 5 stars
BBC documentary in which Jacques Peretti investigates how the super-rich are transforming Britain.
113 min · 4.8 stars
Donald Trump and his campaign rhetoric against Muslims is a major issue for Dr. Suzanne Barakat, sister of Deah Barakat, a victim in the Chapel Hill shooting. Here's what she has to say to the current leading Republican 2016 Presidential candidate.
2 min · 5 stars
Members of the Los Angeles based literacy group, Get Lit, perform "Rape Joke" atBrave New Voices 2014, a youth-centric poetry slam created by Youth Speaks.
4 min · 5 stars
A lot of people reacted tomy comment on Facebookthe other day that greed is more a symptom than a cause of our current system, with all its inequities. Im asked, What is the cause of greed? First Ill say what I think greed is: Greed is the insatiabl
Charles Eisenstein · 4.8 stars
There are myriad reasons why the rallying hashtag for the movement that grew out of#Fergusonis#BlackLivesMatterand not
In the years following the financial crisis, the UK wasted 375bn on a failed scheme to stimulate the economy and end the recession. This was one of the biggest missed opportunities in history. Here's how it happened and what would happen if the Bank of England had taken just...
6 min · 5 stars
In 2015 the bees are still dying in masses. Which at first seems not very important until you realize that one third of all food humans consume would disappear with them. Millions could starve. The foes bees face are truly horrifying some are a direct consequence of human...
6 min · 5 stars
As the US and Iranian governments escalate tensions in the already volatile Straits of Hormuz, and China and Russia begin openly questioning Washington's interference in their internal politics, the world remains on a knife-edge of military tension.
14 min · 5 stars
In this beautifully animated clip from Dirt! The Movie, Wangari Maathai tells an inspiring tale of doing the best you can under seemingly interminable odds.
2 min · 5 stars
Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some ofways citiesare changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he couldn't visit he crowdsourced footage from residents. This film is made in collaboration withThe Nantucket...
18 min · 5 stars
In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of a major project.
8 min · 5 stars
The EU is negotiating two far-reaching trade agreements: one with the USA (TTIP = Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) andone with Canada (CETA = Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement). The official line is that this will create jobs and increase economic...
Stop TTIP · 5 stars
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Heres how that can stop.
Frances Lee · 5 stars
How do we change? How do we adapt our lifestyles to become resilient to the changes we are facing today?
11 min · 4.8 stars
One year on, the children of Gaza still face suffering and trauma. Jon Snow has returned to the territory on the anniversary of the conflict. He found children scavenging in the ruins of a mosque destroyed in last year's bombardment.
5 min · 5 stars
Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...
Charles Eisenstein · 5 stars
Around the world development is robbing tribal people of their land, self-sufficiency and pride and leaving them with nothing.
2 min · 5 stars
Bernie Sanders spoke to Trump supporters, and the results were surprising. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
6 min · 5 stars
There are some disturbing facts buried in the debris of ExxonMobil's $19 billion liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guineafunded in part by a U.S. government loan. A landslide from an ExxonMobil quarry there killed 27 people in 2012a disaster ExxonMobil and the PNG...
14 min · 5 stars
Once again, for the umpteenth time in the Democratic presidential primary, there is a dominant narrative in the establishment news media that it is over for Bernie Sanders. News outlets have crunched the numbers, again, and after the loss to Hillary Clinton in New York...
Kevin Gosztola · 5 stars
It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around now for 10 years. From our early years focusing on local film screenings to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a DIY alternative...
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 · 5 stars
"We have an extraordinary human power... the power of imagination" Ken Robinson
6 min · 5 stars
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser · 5 stars