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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an APOCALOPTIMIST 3 min
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an APOCALOPTIMIST (trailer)
"The most urgent film of our time.” THE AI DOC: OR HOW I BECAME AN APOCALOPTIMIST is only in theaters March 27. Watch the trailer now.
If an Owl Calls Your Name 3 min
If an Owl Calls Your Name (trailer)
Streaming December 9–13, 2025.
Let the Canary Sing 2 min
Let the Canary Sing (trailer)
Let the Canary Sing chronicles Lauper’s meteoric ascent to stardom and her profound impact on generations through her music, ever-evolving punk style, unwavering feminism and tireless...
Stateless 3 min
Stateless (trailer)
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, based on anti-black hatred fomented by the Dominican government...
Michèle Stephenson
ORWELL: 2+2=5 3 min
ORWELL: 2+2=5 (trailer)
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) takes a deep dive into the writing of George Orwell (1984) to explore its potent relevancy to our current times.
Raoul Peck
The Riot Report 3 min
The Riot Report (trailer)
When Black neighborhoods in scores of cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil...
Feels Good Man 3 min
Feels Good Man (trailer)
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness. A Frankenstein-meets-Alice in Wonderland journey of...
The Last Class with Robert Reich 3 min
The Last Class with Robert Reich (trailer)
Robert Reich has run the Labor Department, racked up over a billion video views, and shaped public debate. But his true calling is teaching. After a lifetime of impact, he's stepping...
Why Do I Feel So Lonely Inside? 6 min
Why Do I Feel So Lonely Inside? (trailer)
('Cause all of my society is supporting genocide)
Sivan Misgav
This Film Is Garbage! 2 min
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
Andrew Nisker is back with a new documentary, This Film is Garbage! Is the future greener—or bleaker—than before? Nisker is determined to find out. In this film, he challenges the...
The Eternal Song 3 min
The Eternal Song (trailer)
Watch here → https://theeternalsong.org
Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar 3 min
Radical Love: The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar (trailer)
Best known for his 8,000-mile walk for peace, former monk, activist, author and educator Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for nearly 70 years. Between his home in the south...
Common Ground 3 min
Common Ground (trailer)
Sobering yet hopeful, ‘Common Ground’ exposes the toxic interconnections of American farming policy, politics, and health, by sharing stories of destruction and healing across the United...
Josh Tickell
The Dark Money Game 3 min
The Dark Money Game (trailer)
The Dark Money Game features two documentaries, Ohio Confidential and Wealth of the Wicked, both directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney. The films investigate how an...
Red Fever 2 min
Red Fever (trailer)
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining documentary about the profound Indigenous influences on Western culture and identity, from sport and fashion, to politics and the environmental...
Free For All: The Public Library 2 min
Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)
From award-winning filmmakers comes the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen.
No One Is Illegal: Every Day Tomorrow 97 min
No One Is Illegal: Every Day Tomorrow (trailer)
The war in Ukraine has exposed the double standards of European migration laws applied to women, children and men of different nationalities, mainly non-European.
Carlos Underwood
Tea Creek 2 min
Tea Creek (trailer)
Against the backdrop of colonization and the climate crisis, Jacob Beaton, a passionate Indigenous entrepreneur, has embarked on a remarkable journey. His vision is to transform his...
Ryan Dickie Writers
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza 3 min
From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (trailer)
From Executive Producer Michael Moore and Palestine's Official Submission for the 2025 Academy Awards, From Ground Zero, is a collection of revealing stories from 22 Palestinian...
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film 2 min
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Film" featuring the groundbreaking work of Zen teacher & therapist Barry Magid.
Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore 2 min
Fahrenheit 11/9 | A Film by Michael Moore (trailer)
"Fahrenheit 11/9" is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It will explore the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and...
Stopping The Steal 2 min
Stopping The Steal (trailer)
The inside story of 2020. The HBO Original Documentary #StoppingTheSteal premieres September 17 on @StreamOnMax.
Works for All: Cincinnati’s Co-Op Economy 2 min
Works for All: Cincinnati’s Co-Op Economy (trailer)
Cincinnati is an historic city, just across the Ohio River from Kentucky in the heart of the American Midwest. In the years when people were fleeing slavery in the South, the city became...
Mark Dworkin
Where Olive Trees Weep: No One Is Free Until We Are All Free 3 min
Where Olive Trees Weep: No One Is Free Until We Are All Free (trailer)
Sign Up on the Official Website to Watch - "Where Olive Trees Weep" offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It...
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet 3 min
Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet (trailer)
Breaking Boundaries tells the story of the most important scientific discovery of our time - that humanity has pushed Earth beyond the boundaries that have kept Earth stable for 10,000...
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump 2 min
Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (trailer)
Is Donald Trump fit to hold the office of President of the United States? In the military, there's a program called the Personnel Reliability Program (PRP), which assesses individuals...
Dan Partland
This is [Not] Who We Are 4 min
This is [Not] Who We Are (trailer)
This Is [Not] Who We Are explores the gap between Boulder, Colorado's progressive self-image and the lived experiences of its small but resilient Black community. Boulder is emblematic...
The Interrelated Structure of Reality 7 min
The Interrelated Structure of Reality (trailer)
The work-in-progress film will be an expansive deep dive into our socioeconomic system as the interconnected root cause of all our crises. It's about the two systems that are locked in...
It's Basic 3 min
It's Basic (trailer)
When the Coronavirus Pandemic threw livelihoods into uncertainty and consequently spurred the creation of multiple direct government assistance programs, every American was given...
How to Change Your Mind 3 min
How to Change Your Mind (trailer)
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney and New York Times best-selling author Michael Pollan present this documentary series event in four parts, each focused on a different...
Alex Gibney
Contemplations: On the Psychedelic Experience 2 min
Contemplations: On the Psychedelic Experience (trailer)
Contemplations is a documentary film exploring the furthest reaches of psychedelic exploration.
Maxima 3 min
Maxima (trailer)
An indigenous woman from the Peruvian Andes who cannot read or write, stands up to the largest gold producer in the world, US-based Newmont Mining Corporation.
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End 2 min
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (trailer)
We find Mr. Fish, once successful outrageous editorial cartoonist, as his profession is dying out. Can he support his family and maintain his unique defiant voice in a world where biting...
Pablo Bryant
Reimagining Safety 3 min
Reimagining Safety (trailer)
Ten experts explore the false premise that more police and more prisons make us safer while providing practical and actionable solutions towards achieving systems of safety that work for...
Until the Last Drop 3 min
Until the Last Drop (trailer)
The documentary exposes the global cost and consequences of the destruction of nature. Life-giving rivers have been especially badly hit. Shot on location in Canada, the Netherlands...
The Burden 3 min
The Burden (trailer)
The Burden presents the determined voices of those within the military and across the political spectrum who advocate for breaking America’s addiction to fossil fuels as essential to...
Roger Sorkin
How Racism Harms White Americans 7 min
How Racism Harms White Americans (trailer)
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from...
Sut Jhally
Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations 6 min
Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (trailer)
Legendary scholar-activist Edward Said delivers a powerful lecture dismantling the persistent ideological belief that the world is riven by a clash of civilizations between the civilized...
Sut Jhally
Edward Said: On Orientalism 6 min
Edward Said: On Orientalism (trailer)
In this 1998 film based on his paradigm-shifting book, Edward Said excavates and deconstructs deeply rooted Western perceptions of the Middle East as a mysterious land of exotics...
Sut Jhally
Constructing The Terrorist Threat 5 min
Constructing The Terrorist Threat (trailer)
In this illustrated 2017 talk, Rutgers University media scholar Deepa Kumar, one of America's foremost experts on Islamophobia, looks at how Arabs and Muslims have become the predominant...
The War Around Us 2 min
The War Around Us (trailer)
In this powerful 2013 documentary, award-winning filmmaker Abdallah Omeish chronicles the experiences of Al Jazeera's Cairo-born, Arab-American Ayman Mohyeldin and Arab-British Sherine...
Four Died Trying: JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy 1 min
Four Died Trying: JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert F. Kennedy (trailer)
The opening instalment of an unprecedented multi-part documentary series, filmed primarily from the vantage point of their children, close associates, and witnesses to their...
River 3 min
River (trailer)
A cinematic and musical odyssey that explores the remarkable relationship between humans and rivers. Written by Robert Macfarlane with music by Richard Tognetti and the Australian...
Elements of Mutual Aid: Experiments Toward Liberation 3 min
Elements of Mutual Aid: Experiments Toward Liberation (trailer)
A compilation of footage from the upcoming, independent docuseries "The Elements of Mutual Aid." Spanning North America and including over 60 voices from the frontlines, this project...
Zeitgeist | Requiem by Peter Joseph 4 min
Zeitgeist | Requiem by Peter Joseph (trailer)
This is the official Film Trailer for “Zeitgeist | Requiem” by Peter Joseph. Fourth in the series, Peter Joseph continues to explore the incompatibility of modern capitalism with future...
I Am Greta 3 min
I Am Greta (trailer)
The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary from Swedish director Nathan Grossman. Starting...
YOUTH V GOV 2 min
YOUTH V GOV (trailer)
YOUTH v GOV is the story of the Juliana v. The United States of America constitutional lawsuit and the 21 American youth, ages 14 to 25, who are taking on the world’s most powerful...
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts 2 min
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (trailer)
BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS, explores the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers throughout American history, with particular emphasis on the settling of the...
Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL 2 min
Behind the Shield: The Power & Politics of the NFL (trailer)
Acclaimed journalist Dave Zirin of The Nation magazine tackles the politics of manhood, militarism, nationalism, and race in the NFL, America's most popular and influential sports...
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales 3 min
The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales (trailer)
Abigail Disney looks at America's dysfunctional and unequal economy and asks why the American Dream has worked for the wealthy, yet is a nightmare for people born with less.
Abigail E. Disney
The Magnitude of All Things 2 min
The Magnitude of All Things (trailer)
When Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate...
Human: The World Within 2 min
Human: The World Within (trailer)
Cutting-edge science and captivating personal stories collide in this illuminating docuseries about the incredible workings of the human body.
No Small Matter 2 min
No Small Matter (trailer)
No Small Matter is the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for change in America today: early childhood education.
Danny Alpert
Cosmos: Possible Worlds 3 min
Cosmos: Possible Worlds (trailer)
Possible Worlds translates the revelations of science into a lavishly transporting experience, taking audiences on a series of spiritual voyages of exploration. We are living in the...
Hiding in the Walls 2 min
Hiding in the Walls (trailer)
Hiding in the Walls captures the complicated and devastating story of Baltimore’s lead poisoning epidemic. It takes a deep dive into the origins of lead poisoning, the failures of local...
Angel King Wilson
The Wikipedia Promise 2 min
The Wikipedia Promise (trailer)
Can the world's most widely accessed collection of information be trusted? And if not, is it possible to change it for the better?
Lorenza Castella
The Story of Plastic 3 min
The Story of Plastic (trailer)
Learn how the mass production of single-use plastic has put us in the biggest environmental crisis in history.
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories 1 min
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories (trailer)
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories is a new documentary which will be released in 2022: watch this space for more information!
Dr Magali McDuffie; Dr Alexander Hayes
First We Eat 2 min
First We Eat (trailer)
What happens when an ordinary family, living just south of the Arctic Circle, bans all grocery store food from their house for one year? Add three skeptical teenagers, one reluctant...
Stuart Hall: Through The Prism of an Intellectual Life 2 min
Stuart Hall: Through The Prism of an Intellectual Life (trailer)
The Media Education Foundation presents Stuart Hall: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life A Lecture by Stuart Hall In this recently discovered, newly restored video of one of Stuart...
Not Going Quietly 3 min
Not Going Quietly (trailer)
Ady Barkan’s life is upended when he is diagnosed with ALS, but a confrontation with a powerful Senator catapults him to national fame and ignites a once-in-a-generation political movement.
Nicholas Bruckman
The Big Scary "S" Word 2 min
The Big Scary "S" Word (trailer)
Featuring interviews with Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cornel West, and Naomi Klein, THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD explores the rich history of the American socialist movement.
Yael Bridge
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power 3 min
Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (trailer)
An intimate portrait of Congresswoman Barbara Lee, a pioneer on behalf of racial and economic justice and the lone voice in opposition to the authorization of military force after the...
Abby Ginzberg
Exterminate All The Brutes 3 min
Exterminate All The Brutes (trailer)
Exterminate All the Brutes is an eye-opening journey through time, offering an incisive look at the history of European colonialism in Africa and the Americas. The groundbreaking series...
Earth's Greatest Enemy 2 min
Earth's Greatest Enemy (trailer)
A new documentary by Abby Martin exposing the world's biggest polluter: the US military.
THE CON: A 5-Part Docuseries 2 min
THE CON: A 5-Part Docuseries (trailer)
An in-depth investigation into the 2008 financial crisis nine years in the making. Through interviews with regulators, former officials, foreclosure victims, industry whistleblowers, and...
THE CON 3 min
THE CON (trailer)
The American Dream Dies Where Power Lies From writer/director Eric Vaughan, producer Patrick Lovell and executive producer Adam Bronfman, The Con is an in-depth investigation into the...
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault 3 min
Hold Me Right: The Aftermath of Sexual Assault (trailer)
A filmmaker tries to cope with the aftermath of her own sexual assault while filming first-hand testimonies ––ranging from a nurse that performed her own rape kit to a pedophile molested...
How The World Went Mad - Animated Docuseries 10 min
How The World Went Mad - Animated Docuseries (trailer)
How the World Went Mad is a five-part animated docuseries that combines satire and science to explore the wave of political insanity sweeping the globe.
Food Savers 4 min
Food Savers (trailer)
This follow-up to Valentin Thurn’s documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that...
The Condition of the Working Class 3 min
The Condition of the Working Class (trailer)
Everything changes and yet everything stays the same. 1844: Friedrich Engels writes his book The Condition of the Working Class in England, a classic denunciation of the appalling living...
Michael Wayne
Seaspiracy 3 min
Seaspiracy (trailer)
Seaspiracy examines the global fishing industry, challenging notions of sustainable fishing and showing how human actions cause widespread environmental destruction.
'Til Kingdom Come 2 min
'Til Kingdom Come (trailer)
Millions of American Evangelicals are praying for the State of Israel. Among them are the Binghams, a dynasty of Kentucky pastors, and their Evangelical congregants in an impoverished...
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress 2 min
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress (trailer)
For the last two centuries progress has been our reason for being; progress has provided us with better ways of living. But progress has also given us napalm, pesticides, nuclear waste...
They Call Us Criminals 2 min
They Call Us Criminals (trailer)
This upcoming documentary aims to expose the reality of the animals suffering within industries that exploit them, as well as showcase the work of Animal Rights activists in Canada. All...
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence 1 min
Sacheen: Breaking the Silence (trailer)
SACHEEN is a story of redemption and resilience, of pride and perseverance. Sacheen Littlefeather remains proud that she is the first person, the first woman of color, to utilize the...
The Minimalists: Less Is Now 2 min
The Minimalists: Less Is Now (trailer)
They've built a movement out of minimalism. Longtime friends Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus share how our lives can be better with less. Directed by Matt D'Avella.
Expedición Tribugá 3 min
Expedición Tribugá (trailer)
"EXPEDICIÓN TRIBUGÁ" is a documentary film that seeks to raise awareness in the world about the importance of conserving one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The Tribugá...
The Social Dilemma 3 min
The Social Dilemma (trailer)
We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon...
Detropia 3 min
Detropia (trailer)
Originally the birthplace of the middle class, Detroit is now on the brink of complete collapse. Loosing over 25% of it’s population and 50% of its manufacturing jobs over the past...
My Octopus Teacher 3 min
My Octopus Teacher (trailer)
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm 3 min
Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm (trailer)
INFINITE POTENTIAL tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s...
Kiss the Ground 3 min
Kiss the Ground (trailer)
Kiss the Ground reveals that, by regenerating the world’s soils, we can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies. Using...
Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism 4 min
Revolution In Reverse: Debt, Work and the New Colonialism (trailer)
Anthropologist David Graeber guides us on a profound analysis of the financial systems, current crisis and upheavals in the world. Taking as a starting point the tireless Occupy Wall...
2040: Join The Regeneration 2 min
2040: Join The Regeneration (trailer)
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already...
Film School Africa 2 min
Film School Africa (trailer)
Katie Taylor, a Hollywood casting director, leaves her career behind in order to teach filmmaking to the youth of an impoverished South African community. Originally intending solely to...
Giant Slaves 2 min
Giant Slaves (trailer)
This expository documentary is shedding some light on the southeast asian elephant industry. What is this dark secret? And why is it harmful for the elephants?
The Blood is at the Doorstep 3 min
The Blood is at the Doorstep (trailer)
After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a quest for answers, justice, and...
The Condor & The Eagle 2 min
The Condor & The Eagle (trailer)
Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown
Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown (trailer)
On August 9th, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson stopped Michael Brown in the street. 95 seconds later Officer Wilson killed this 18-year-old recent high school graduate in cold blood. After...
Peace Officer: The Militarized State of American Police 3 min
Peace Officer: The Militarized State of American Police (trailer)
Peace Officer is a documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of "Dub" Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his...
Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police 2 min
Copwatch: An Organization Dedicated to Filming the Police (trailer)
COPWATCH follows WeCopwatch, an organization dedicated to filming the police. Among its members are the individuals who captured the original videos of the deaths of Eric Garner in...
Whose Streets? An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising 3 min
Whose Streets? An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising (trailer)
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, Whose Streets? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is...
The Talk: Race in America 3 min
The Talk: Race in America (trailer)
The Talk – Race in America is a two-hour documentary about the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes and communities across the country between parents of color and...
Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson 3 min
Show Me Democracy: Student Activism Amidst the Uprising in Ferguson (trailer)
Amidst the uprising in Ferguson, 7 St. Louis college students evolve into advocates and activists as they demand change through policy and protest.
Dispatches From Cleveland 2 min
Dispatches From Cleveland (trailer)
Dispatches from Cleveland is a feature-length documentary in five parts that closely examines the early 21st century, rust-belt city of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most racially divided...
Out of Omaha 3 min
Out of Omaha (trailer)
OUT OF OMAHA is an award-winning, intimate portrait of twin brothers Darcell and Darrell Trotter, young black men coming of age in the divided city of Omaha, Nebraska. Directed by Clay...
The Carbon Rush 2 min
The Carbon Rush (trailer)
From indigenous rain forest dwellers having their way of life completely threatened, to dozens of Campesinos assassinated, to the livelihood of waste pickers at landfills taken away, THE...
BERNIE BLACKOUT | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 2 min
BERNIE BLACKOUT | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (trailer)
Proud to be a producer on this epic new documentary, "Bernie Blackout" on Vice. Premieres 5/13 at 8pm. Check it out! - Matt Orfalea
Harmony 3 min
Harmony (trailer)
Inspired by HRH The Prince of Wales, HARMONY captures on film in a way we’ve never seen before, an authentic leader on critical global issues. For the better part of three decades, The...
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