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House Music: A Cultural Revolution
House Music: A Cultural Revolution (2024)
Chicago’s secret is very much out in the open now: house music DJs headline clubs and festivals from London to Cape Town. But this electronic dance music was born behind closed doors at underground venues. In the early 1980s, a band of mostly Black, gay artists created house...
53 min
The REAL Story of Jesus
The REAL Story of Jesus
This might be a controversial question. But the answer isn't straightforward and requires us to examine Jesus in a way many of have us have never before. 
12 min
Shocking New Details on Tesla Bombing Changes Everything!
Shocking New Details on Tesla Bombing Changes Everything!
Luke discusses the information coming out surrounding the heartbreaking Cybertruck explosion. 
15 min
The Truth About "Woke" Videogames
The Truth About "Woke" Videogames
It's not the "Wokeness" that's ruining video games, it's capitalism... 
38 min
If Aliens and T2 Came Out Today
If Aliens and T2 Came Out Today
This is a satire of how easily offended anti-woke critics would treat Aliens and Terminator 2 if they came out today. This is actually a segment toward the end of my last video, called “Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke.” 
6 min
A Video to Send to Your Trump-Voting Friends and Family
A Video to Send to Your Trump-Voting Friends and Family
Want a better economy? Hate elitism? The problem isn't the left vs right, it's the top vs the bottom. You might want to look up.
23 min
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
Material Conditions: How to Eliminate Sexism
What would happen if you could end sexism overnight by giving everyone a magic pink pill? Why changing hearts, minds and culture isn’t enough, you need to change the conditions that generate cultural attitudes in order for changing hearts and minds to have a long term effect. 
33 min
How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
How Jesus Turned Me Into A Marxist
While lots of politicians and hucksters would like you to believe that Christianity is antithetical to Marxism and Communism, they're absolutely wrong. I explain in this video about how my own experiences with Christianity led me to a radical politics grounded in Marxist...
19 min
The Red Pill Lie
The Red Pill Lie
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as the cure. I talk about why they're wrong and provide some actual guidance from my...
80 min
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
Why I Stopped Being Anti-Woke
I discuss how and why I changed over the last decade, from being more anti-sjw (anti-woke) to realizing the dangers of falling into that trap.
56 min
The Movement We Need
The Movement We Need
This series of writings is an experiment—a new way of writing a book that invites you all to participate in.  I’ve written or co-written thirteen published books over more than four decades as an author, and a number of others (we don’t talk about those), and seen publishing...
Starhawk
Why I left the Democratic Party #WalkAway
Why I left the Democratic Party #WalkAway
video by Orf Twitter  https://twitter.com/0rf  Rumble https://rumble.com/Orf  Patreon https://patreon.com/Orf  Substack https://substack.com/@MattOrf  Locals https://mattorfalea.locals.com  Truth
10 min
The Right Wing's Woke-a-Dope Strategy
The Right Wing's Woke-a-Dope Strategy
Middle Nation critiques the anti-woke pundit class.
15 min
Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart
Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart
A thorough and unbiased decoding of Jerry Seinfeld's recent controversial remarks made during his relentless media tour in support of his new film Unfrosted - and an examination of how Jerry has trapped himself in his own self-made comedy purgatory. Stop laughing, it's not funny.
39 min
Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land
Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land (2024)
“If we need to kill them all, we will” TRT World’s investigative documentary, Holy Redemption, unveils violent fanaticism of armed illegal Jewish settlers who aim to uproot Palestinians from the occupied West Bank. The documentary was made as our team infiltrated “Israel’s...
54 min
James Talarico Delivers POWERFUL Sermon Against Christian Nationalism, Revealing The True Spirit of Christ
James Talarico Delivers POWERFUL Sermon Against Christian Nationalism, Revealing The True Spirit of Christ
On October 22nd, 2023, James Talarico spoke at his home church in Texas about the dangers of Christian Nationalism.
19 min
The Top 250 Transition Documentaries Inspiring a Thriving Future
The Top 250 Transition Documentaries Inspiring a Thriving Future
A better world is possible. These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people rejecting despair, fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Films For Action
Where Olive Trees Weep: No One Is Free Until We Are All Free
Where Olive Trees Weep: No One Is Free Until We Are All Free (2024) (trailer)
Online Premiere, June 6-27, 2024 - "Where Olive Trees Weep" offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice. 
3 min
Tribes on the Edge
Tribes on the Edge (2021)
Tribes on the Edge follows Céline Cousteau as she returns to the Brazilian Amazon after a fateful email from Beto of the Marúbo tribe beckons her back to help tell his people’s story. 
67 min
Living Without: How Much is Enough?
Living Without: How Much is Enough?
Do you feel like life is a constant game of catch-up? No matter how much you strive to get and do, you feel like you need to do more or have more? 
11 min
SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance
SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)
SiDiKi is an inspiring feature-length documentary about legendary Guinean dancer Sidiki Conde, a man who--despite his physical limitations--found peace in dancing and guiding others toward the same healing. This film will change the way you view those labeled as disabled.
60 min
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)
Around one billion people struggle with stress-related illness globally - and that figure is rising. What protects those with good mental health? Is their resilience innate? Or is the ability to withstand chronic stress and crisis something that can be learned? In the search...
52 min
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ Oscar speech.” The angry letter is a tight script for a real-life drama of defending...
Norman Solomon
The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate
The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate
What if the addictions that grip so many are merely attempts to silence a deeper, emotional pain? 
7 min
The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein
The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein
What if the very definition of progress we've been chasing is leading us astray?
8 min
How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph
How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph
Are we shaping our lives, or is an invisible hand steering us towards a cliff? 
3 min
How to Change Your Mind
How to Change Your Mind (2022) (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 mind-altering substance: LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and mescaline. 
3 min
The Super Bowl as Weapon of Mass Distraction from Gaza
The Super Bowl as Weapon of Mass Distraction from Gaza
'There’s been no shortage of commentary in corporate media about pop superstar Taylor Swift helping to make this year’s Super Bowl the most-watched telecast in U.S. history.¹There’s been a lot less commentary about how Americans were fixated on football at precisely the same...
5 min
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalism: The Seven Principles
Unitarian Universalist congregations affirm and promote seven Principles, which we hold as strong values and moral guides. We live out these Principles within a “living tradition” of wisdom and spirituality, drawn from sources as diverse as science, poetry, scripture, and...
Unitarian Universalist Association
Geography of Hope: Becoming Native to a Place
Geography of Hope: Becoming Native to a Place (2017)
Brooke Hecht, Lyla June Johnston, Nicky Finney, and Ilarion Merculieff speak at the 2017 Geography of Hope Conference. This year's theme was “Ancestors & The Land: Our Past, Present, and Future" held in Point Reyes, California. 
70 min
The Village of Lovers
The Village of Lovers (2025)
Watch Now through Feb 2 | Globalized capitalism is destroying the biosphere while political unrest and war continue to dominate the headlines. Where might we turn for guidance in order to navigate these uncertain times? Enter Tamera: a radical intentional community 40 years...
74 min
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What?
In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams. There are many different...
12 min
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End
Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End (2017) (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 satiric humor has an ever-diminishing market value?
2 min
Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood
Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood
For the Mescalero Apache Tribe, girls are not recognized as women until they have undergone the Sunrise Ceremony- an ancient, coming-of-age ceremony that lasts for four days. 
12 min
How Netanyahu's War Could DESTROY Israel
How Netanyahu's War Could DESTROY Israel
“The Gaza war is a total disaster for Israel” - David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye   
13 min
Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations
Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)
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 and enlightened U.S.-led West and the barbaric and backward-looking totalitarian forces...
53 min
The Settlers
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank. 
111 min
Edward Said: On Orientalism
Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)
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, villains, and terrorists, and argues that this caricatured cultural heritage continues to blind...
41 min
Tech Leader Reveals Industry's Terrifying Pro-Israel Bias
Tech Leader Reveals Industry's Terrifying Pro-Israel Bias
Tech leader Paul Biggar calls out the pro-Israel bias of the industry (and how wrong it feels to go about business as usual while our government is funding a genocide).
21 min
How We Became the Loneliest Generation
How We Became the Loneliest Generation
In this deep dive episode, ColdFusion looks at the loneliness epidemic: its origins, causes, and some solutions. 
40 min
The Problem with Wokeness From a Left Perspective
The Problem with Wokeness From a Left Perspective
Identity, which is at the heart of wokeness, is often regarded as the most fundamental thing we have. But clinging too hard to your identity can lead to an emphasis on what makes us different, rather than what we all might have in common. Stylist and cultural commentator...
59 min
Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza
Honest Government Ad | Israel & Gaza
The Government™ has made an ad about what's happening in Israel & Gaza and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
3 min
Separated Interbeings | Volume 1
Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)
"One of the best things you'll (n)ever see." 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.
1020 min
A Rainbow of Inequality: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
A Rainbow of Inequality: When Social Control Masquerades as Social Justice
When ideas and movements that threaten to overturn established hierarchies of power are absorbed into elite institutions like Ivy League universities and for-profit corporations, they get transformed into ideas that support the status quo, while remaining cloaked in the...
89 min
How Brands Use Design & Marketing to Control Your Mind
How Brands Use Design & Marketing to Control Your Mind (2023)
As we navigate through the world, we are constantly being influenced by subtle design tactics that most of us aren't even aware of. These branding tactics can be found everywhere - in the layout of your favorite store, the colors of a pop-up ad, or even the design of your...
41 min
50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth
50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth
The human journey is at a crossroads. Authoritarianism is on the rise, the biosphere is destabilizing, and the capitalist global order is driving us towards the cliff with its head stuck in quarterly profit reports. From everything we've learned about climate feedback loops...
Films For Action
Privilege and Suffering Affects All Skin Colors | John Wood, Jr
Privilege and Suffering Affects All Skin Colors | John Wood, Jr
"Understanding is the foundation of empathy. In a polarized America, we need it now more than ever." - John Wood Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels. 
5 min
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
American Fascism And The Groomer Panic
We've seen a number of moral panics over the decades, and this one is no different. Come learn how the same old tropes are being recycled to animate this latest strain of American fascism. - Second Thought 
27 min
6 Black Men vs 1 Secret White Guy
6 Black Men vs 1 Secret White Guy
WHO IS JUBILEE? We believe in the power of empathy for human good. Ultimately, we aim to inspire people to EMBRACE EMPATHY.
20 min
Gratitude Revealed
Gratitude Revealed (2022)
Gratitude Revealed is a remarkable cinematic documentary that has been forty years in the making.
82 min
Remembering That Life Is Good
Remembering That Life Is Good
As humans, we are always trying to control everything. We think we have the ability to change anything that crosses our path and believe we have the capability to handle it to our perfect satisfaction every time.
14 min
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein
What Is the Next Story? | Charles Eisenstein
Inspired by a Charles Eisenstein essay, crafted by Tonika Todorova and narrated by Charles. 
15 min
I Have Arrived, I Am Home: A Documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh
I Have Arrived, I Am Home: A Documentary about Thich Nhat Hanh (2023)
Made specially for the first anniversary of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, "I Have Arrived, I Am Home" is a new documentary from filmmaker Max Pugh (A Cloud Never Dies, Walk With Me).
42 min
Black People Are Not a Monolith | Erec Smith
Black People Are Not a Monolith | Erec Smith
"If a white professional were to announce that, whenever she speaks, she does so as a representative of all of white America, I imagine that—from New England to Palm Springs—we would hear the response that no one person can speak for all America’s 197 million white people...
5 min
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo
Does Superman Have To Be White? | Angel Eduardo
"All I’ve ever wanted was to be Superman. Growing up, I did what all kids do: I ran around wearing a cape, I dressed up for  Halloween, I played with the action figures, I watched the movies and TV shows. But I  also picked up on more important things.
6 min
Why Serious Play Is Transformative
Why Serious Play Is Transformative
We shouldn't reduce all play to entertaining play. Some play is the serious play that engages fundamental transformative processes for us. Rafe Kelley in conversation with John Vaervake.
5 min
Frederick Douglass: “To Suppress Free Speech Is a Double Wrong."
Frederick Douglass: “To Suppress Free Speech Is a Double Wrong."
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” - Frederick Douglass
1 min
The Universal Christ | Richard Rohr
The Universal Christ | Richard Rohr
This hour-long video provides a deeper exploration into the Universal Christ. Father Richard Rohr delivers a framework for reading Scripture and understanding church history that demonstrates how these ideas have been a part of the Christian tradition since the beginning.
59 min
Cultural Relativism and the Importance of Anthropology in the Modern Age | Wade Davis
Cultural Relativism and the Importance of Anthropology in the Modern Age | Wade Davis
Bestselling author and anthropologist Wade Davis addresses The Royal Canadian Geographical Society's 2017 College of Fellows dinner, held November 16, 2017 at the Canadian Museum of History.
36 min
Capitalism Has Hijacked Christmas for Profit. We Need to Reclaim Its Humanitarian Origins.
Capitalism Has Hijacked Christmas for Profit. We Need to Reclaim Its Humanitarian Origins.
In this video essay, I look at why we need a war on capitalist Christmas. Specifically, I look at the history of how capitalism stole Christmas, and how we might be able to steal it back. Christmas wasn't always a holiday of private gift-giving, it used to be based in public...
22 min