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Why I Love Columbus Day
I love Columbus Day. Each year, I recall the simple song I learned as a child about the man who "discovered" America. I still recall the innocent boy whose imagination was taken by the story of adventure and discovery.
You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress
The following is an excerpt of “Columbus and Western Civilization” written by Howard Zinn that appears in the Disinformation anthology You Are Still Being Lied To edited by Russ Kick.
A People's History of the United States, Chapter 1: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
This is the first chapter from A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
Crude: The Real Price of Oil
Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial environmental lawsuits on the planet. The inside...
A River in New Zealand Gets a Legal Voice
It speaks the language of riffles and babbles, not legal rights and codes, but the Whanganui River, New Zealand’s third largest, has received something no other river in the country – and possibly the world – yet has: a legal voice.
In Our Backyard (A Monsanto Introspective) (2009)
The focus of the piece is on a small village just east of St. Louis known as Sauget. Years ago this tiny area was incorporated as Monsanto. For those who remain unaware Monsanto Company was one of the leading chemical producers of the twentieth century and has been...
The Sacred Science (2011) (trailer)
“The Sacred Science” follows eight people from all different walks of life, with varying physical and psychological ailments, as they embark on a one-month healing journey into the heart of the Amazon jungle.  Working with a handful of local Shamanic healers and using a...
The Next, Best West
The Next, Best West explores our changing relationship with the land that sustains us. It tells the story of how the conventional American concept of progress has steered our exploitation of the Western landscape, and takes you to three places – Colorado’s San Luis Valley...
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
An irony of modern life is that, in spite of spectacular increases in material abundance and centuries of technological progress, hunter-gatherers, people who have lived with almost no material possessions, have enjoyed lives in many ways as satisfying and rewarding as lives...
The Sioux campaign to buy back the Black Hills that belong to them
The Black Hills were stolen from the Sioux in 1877. Now, Indians are in a desperate quest to buy back their sacred sites When I was a little girl, a long time ago, we would go camping in the Black Hills of South Dakota. We had to pay, just as tourists do, to camp there and...
Unseen Tears
Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their families, abuse, and a systematic assault on their language and culture. Western New York Native...
anOther Story Of Progress
An anti-civ documentary by Thomas Toivonen. Covering various issues such as environmental destruction, indigenous struggles, anarcho-primitivism and much more. Featuring John Zerzan, Layla AbdelRahim and other prominet primitivist thinkers. 
2012: The Mayan Word
Everyone is talking about the Mayan Prophecies of 2012. But who is listening to the Maya?
The Fuck-it Point
A film about the dark side of civilization, why we should bring it down and why most civilized people don't.
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It is Russell Means's most famous speech.
You can’t Google it and get it back: Why the death of tribal languages matters
“You say laughter and I say larfter,” sang Louis Armstrong. The difference is subtle. Across the world, however, from the Amazon to the Arctic, tribal peoples say it in 4,000 entirely different ways. Sadly, no one now says “laughter” in Eyak, a language from the Gulf of...
First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture
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...
Malayasia: Bidayuh villagers set fire to logging camps, 13 heavy machines
Residents from 10 Bidayuh villagers this week set fire to five logging camps and thirteen heavy machines in a stark protest against logging activities on their land, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
Trudell
"The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most bloodthirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization." - John Trudell At its most basic...
Mine: Story of a Sacred Mountain
Mine, narrated by Joanna Lumley, tells the story of the remote Dongria Kondh tribe's struggle to protect Niyamgiri, the mountain they worship as a God. London-based mining company Vedanta Resources plans a vast open-pit bauxite mine in India's Niyamgiri hills, and the Dongria...
END:CIV
Directed by Franklin Lopez, END:CIV examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.
U.S. Pays For Corporate Profit At the Expense of Human Lives
Kansas City, Thursday March 1, 2011 a group of concerned citizens gathered at the Cherith Brook Community House (A Catholic Worker House) to educate and plan protests against the building of nuclear warheads in Kansas City. 
Poison Fire
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.
Other Economies are Possible! Organizing Toward an Economy of Cooperation and Solidarity
Consider this: thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects are in the process of creating the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism.   It might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker, consumer, and housing...
Uncontacted Tribes
A film produced by Survival International about Uncontacted Tribes and their typical fate. Narrated by Julie Christie.
America: The Silence of a Nation
Excerpts from Chris Hedges speech on Gaza and US apathy and silence over policies of foreign allies and participation in war crimes.
The Economics of Happiness
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There...
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man
The Canary Effect takes an in depth look at the devastating effect that US policies have had on the indigenous people of America.
FLOW: For Love of Water
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
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...
Crude (trailer)
Three years in the making, this riveting new documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger tells the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion Amazon Chernobyl case, Crude is a real-life...
Learn about Clear Cuts
This rough cut features Qwatsinas of the Nuxalk Nation who inhabit the central coast of British Columbia, Zoe Blunt from the Forest Action Network, and Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame. I shot the footage a few years ago at Wild Earth, an eco-activist camp on Vancouver...
Resist 2010: Eight Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics
Resist 2010: 8 Reasons to Oppose the 2010 Winter Olympics, is a short, fast-paced documentary focusing on the negative impacts of the 2010 Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada, and the ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements. Produced by No2010.com &...
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber
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...
American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian
The powerful and hard-hitting documentary, American Holocaust, is quite possibly the only film that reveals the link between the Nazi holocaust, which claimed at least 6 million Jews, and the American Holocaust which claimed, according to conservative estimates, 19 million...
Our Founding Illegals
Fark TV takes a comical look at some of the first immigrants ever to reach our shores.
From the Kalahari to Court: The Bushmen's Victory
The Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve have been forced from their ancestral lands in a wave of evictions by the Botswana government. In 2006 they won a historic legal victory when Botswana's High Court ruled that their eviction was 'unlawful and unconstitutional'...