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When current science news is filled withpictures incredible, beautiful, literally awesomepictures of planetary bodies 3billion miles away, it's easy to forget what's happening on the soil beneath our own feet.
Max Plenke · 5 stars
Exctract from Zeitgeist: Addendumfeaturing "ecomomic hitman"John Perkins.
24 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
Everyday Rebellion is a documentary about the power of the peaceful protests and the new forms of civil disobedience in a time of global upheaval.Featuring Femen, The Yes Men, Srdja Popovic, Reverend Billy And The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, John Jackson, Monica Hunken, Amin...
4 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
Traditionally the climate talks have been a lot of talk and very little action... We sat down with world renowned environmentalist Dr. Vandana Shiva to discuss what she thinks, you'llbe surprised what that is...
25 min · 5 stars
Separated Interbeings is a film collage of our diverse and complex world caught on camera, creatively put together to open deeper perspectives and insights on the world we live in.
900 min · 5 stars
In October 2014, the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research (www.pipr.co.uk) asked Noam Chomsky to comment on some important world developments, including the threat of nuclear war, the recent escalation of violence in Gaza, and the growth of ISIS in Iraq.
Noam Chomsky · 5 stars
All over the world there is a feeling that something is deeply wrong. It is often felt more than seen, an unnamed darkness that keeps millions (even billions) of people disconnected from the reality of authentic life-affirming experience. Too many of our so-called leaders are...
Joe Brewer · 5 stars
We invited Native Americans to respond to "Christopher Columbus." These are their responses.
3 min · 5 stars
The week of Venezuela's presidential election, John Oliver dedicated an ENTIRE episode of his HBO show "Last Week Tonight" to the countryfull of distortions and highly misleading to progressive-minded people.
47 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
When the war broke out in Syria, Abdullah had just enrolled in university to study law. The war intensified, and his home town of Dier Ezzor became a major battleground in the fight between Assad's forces, anti-government rebels, and eventually Daesh. Russian and American-led...
42 min · 5 stars
Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income.
8 min · 5 stars
"Five Broken Cameras" was nominated to the Oscars for 2013, but will the Oscars help to bring this film to Israeli youth? "Five Broken Cameras" is the engaging story of Palestinian cameraman, Emad Burnat, who documented 6 years of the Non-violent movement in his village, Bil'in.
9 min · 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
How many more disaffected black men have to self-radicalize before we take their claims seriously?
Tavis Smiley · 5 stars
Through the stories of six extraordinary individuals, Self-Taught explores what self-directed education means to them and the impact it has had on their lives, ambitions, work and beliefs.
77 min · 5 stars
President Trump announced the U.S.s intent to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement what many said was the worlds best chance to collectively limit the impact on the planet.
The first effects of climate change are already being felt, and projections show that...
28 min · 5 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
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
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Heres how that can stop.
Frances Lee · 5 stars
500 innocent Americans are murdered by police every year (USDOJ). 5,000 since 9/11, equal to the number of US soldiers lost in Iraq.
In 1994 the US Government passed a law authorizing the Pentagon to donate surplus Cold Wa
10 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
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
Comedian John Cleese is taking advantage of the huge tax breaks given to churches by founding a new one - The Church of JC Capitalist. Praise be the almighty $.
2 min · 5 stars
This New Zealand film has won 4 international environmental awards - but here in NZ, TV channels refuse to play it. Why? Because if they did, there would be outrage and riots over New Zealand's use of aerially applied 1080 poison. See for yourself ...
97 min · 5 stars
It's been five years sincetheFilms For Action project began in Lawrence, Kansas. It started with one simple idea:wecan't depend onthemainstream mediatoinform us, so let's becomethemedia ourselves by hosting documentaries on issues thatthecorporatemedia ignores.
The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man's violent exploitation of Earth and her resources, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The fight to save the Earth must begin with the empowerment of women...
Nafeez Ahmed · 5 stars
Wherein the most popular arguments for capitalism are looked at more closely.
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Worldwide, 13% of workers feel engaged with their work
9 min · 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
Lancashire County Council and local residents said NO to fracking. The government overturned that decision and allowed fracking firm Cuadrilla to drill at a site on Preston New Road near Blackpool. Now local residents, councillors and concerned citizens are taking direct...
10 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
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
This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management with its own coins, the Eco; and finally, the self-sustaining community Tamera also in Portugal. The...
2 min · 5 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
A dystopian warning from the future
So-called "balanced" climate change coverage usually means a skeptic is put up against a climate expert. Watch HBO funny man John Oliver explain why this set up is so absurd (warning: he likes to swear).
4 min · 5 stars
Every drone flown by the U.S. military has inside a piece of the Democratic Republic of the Congo--a valuable mineral, of which the DRC has trillions of dollars worth buried underground.
27 min · 5 stars
In this video, Dr. Gabor Mat explains how addiction imprints itself on the brain and how ayahuasca can help release people from their destructive habits. "Ayahuasca shows you very clearly the psychological baggage that you've carried all your life," Mat says. "You no longer...
6 min · 5 stars
After years of hating the iconic photo, Kim Phuc came to embrace it as a powerful tool to teach peace.
Abby Zimet · 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
Peter Joseph addresses the opening arguments put forward by Jordan B. Peterson, from Peterson's debate with Slavoj Zizek called "Happiness: Capitalism vs. Marxism" - April 19th 2019 (Sorry for the typos. Mostly min. 46-48)
54 min · 5 stars
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
82 min · 5 stars
"To those of you that care about diversity, about the environment, about the beauty of queer sexual orientations, about indigenous lands and their right to thrive, and about policing practices that have led to the deaths of many black men and women...I write." How do we...
Who let the Logs out!? Wikileaks drops 400,000 classified documents shedding new light on the Iraq warthe biggest leak of classified military documents in historysending shockwaves across the Fourth Estate. Rap News marks the occasion by inviting into the studio the...
6 min · 5 stars
Can you name Africas last colony? Western Sahara has been occupied by neighboring Morocco for over 40 years, yet most people have never heard of the conflict. NO country in the world recognizes the Moroccon occupation, and time after time the UN Security Counsil has stressed...
3 min · 5 stars
The line between editorial content and advertising in news media is blurrier and blurrier. That's not bullshit. It's repurposed bovine waste.
11 min · 5 stars
McMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
Ronald Purser · 5 stars
America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world or is it? David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide discusses why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of living than...
13 min · 5 stars
Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most...
22 min · 5 stars
Ever wondered what it might take to rid the world of conflict and live in happiness forever? Well, the journey to world peace begins here, and ends with 1000 episodes of the SRSLY WRONG podcast.
6 min · 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...
There are myriad reasons why the rallying hashtag for the movement that grew out of#Fergusonis#BlackLivesMatterand not
An interview covering neoliberalism, migration, Brexit, Trump, community-building, climate change, democracy, power, globalization, and lots more.
2 min · 5 stars
Sometimes I feel nostalgic for the cultural mythology of my youth, a world in which there was nothing wrong with soda pop, in which the super Bowl was important, in which America was bringing democracy to the world, in which the doctor could fix you, in which science was...
Charles Eisenstein · 5 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
The crisis of corporate influence over American democracy is the latest subject of award-winning Internet filmmaker, Annie Leonard.
9 min · 5 stars
In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...
31 min · 5 stars