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1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag
1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag (2023)
The one-million strong Landless Workers Movement (MST) is a backbone of the Brazilian left, famous for its mass actions and radical land occupations all across the Brazilian countryside. While fighting agribusiness giants, the MST has become the largest producer of organic...
20 min
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
The Secret Reason the Dems Keep Losing
Being part of a political party used to actually mean something other than being hounded for money over text and being disappointed by your choice of candidates at the polls every few years. Here’s how the death of mass-membership organizations tanked the American political...
19 min
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
Yasuní: The “Yes” Heard Around the World
“Leave the oil in the ground? Give up more than a billion dollars a year? Put nature above the economy? What madness is this?”
Pablo Solón
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
A tour of MIUFI (Michigian Urban Farming Initiative) and interview with its manager - Quan Blunt.
13 min
50 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
50 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of weakness, and in their wake, we have the opportunity to build something far more life-affirming. A...
Tim Hjersted
Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap
Why Ethical Consumerism Is a Trap
In this video essay, I explore the complicated nature of ethical consumerism. Specifically, I unpack what the idea of "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" really means, and look at how brands have co-opted ethical messaging for corporate gains. - OCC
21 min
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
This 35-minute film is a united call for a new economy, delivered by those who have committed their lives to working for systemic change. 
34 min
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
This 42-minute film is bursting with examples of exciting localization initiatives across the world. 
43 min
'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy
'Death Star' State: The GOP's War on Democracy (2024)
A battle for the future of democracy is raging in Greg Abbott's Texas. In the summer of 2023, amid a deadly, record-breaking global heatwave, Republican Governor Abbott signed a bill that eliminated mandated water breaks for outdoor workers. When TRNN's Marc Steiner traveled...
27 min
Power 2 the People
Power 2 the People (2013)
Produced by Afristar Foundation and Directed by FixerFilm, Power to the People is a documentary showcasing alternative energy and appropriate technology applications in South Africa. The film focuses both on low-tech, small-scale solutions implemented on household and...
49 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
How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities
How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities
Culdesac, a new car-free community in Tempe, Arizona, is the most Edenic urban space I have seen. Join me on a recent visit and conversation with its CEO Ryan Johnson—who explained how to unlock sustainability in the US and design our way out of the loneliness epidemic. This...
12 min
Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons
Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons
The City Food Commons shares the story of Roimata Food Commons, an urban food forest initiative driven by Ōtautahi Christchurch local Michael Reynolds. The aim of the project is to empower the community to co-create space in a public park, reviving the notion of the Commons...
13 min
Charles Eisenstein On Community & The New Story
Charles Eisenstein On Community & The New Story
Global Streaming Premiere of The Village of Lovers Feb 7-18, 2024 Watch here. 
6 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
Reimagining Safety
Reimagining Safety (2024) (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 everyone.
3 min
Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg: A Brief Introduction
Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg: A Brief Introduction
Marshall Rosenberg, PhD effectively mediated conflicts throughout the world for more than 40 years. His method, Nonviolent Communication, has brought together warring factions as diverse as Irish Catholics and Protestants, Rwandan Hutus and Tutsis, Israelis and Palestinians...
11 min
I'm a Rhino
I'm a Rhino (2023)
Elliot’s had a frightful epiphany: there are fewer rhinos left in the world than students at his university. So he’s become one, and set out single-minded to save them.
18 min
How To Build A Solarpunk City
How To Build A Solarpunk City
"I believe our cities should belong to us. They should be cooperative, co-creative, ecological, and egalitarian spaces, by and for the people. We have so much untapped urban potential just waiting to be explored. Join me as we determine how to build a solarpunk...
42 min
Elements of Mutual Aid: Experiments Toward Liberation
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 explores the origins, structures, healing ways, and logistics of grassroots mutual aid toward...
3 min
Imprint
Imprint (2023)
What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film "Imprint" we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for a vibrant future. A personal and poetic depiction of what it means to be fully human in...
75 min
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours (2019)
The Commons is a documentary film about communities re-asserting sustainable futures using consensus, equity and shared resources – ancient Commons principles. 
110 min
Connectivity Project
Connectivity Project (2021)
By exploring the ripple effects of our actions in an interconnected world, CONNECTIVITY PROJECT highlights how science and different cultures and traditions from around the world embrace the importance of interconnectedness. As we follow inspiring individuals who are making a...
44 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
We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned
We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (2021)
A film about the citizen-led community-energy movement in Europe and the visionaries lighting the way. 
39 min
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to Portland, Oregon to talk with architect Mark Lakeman, founder of Communitecture Architecture and the City Repair Project. Mark initiated a movement in Portland to transform the homogenous neighborhoods of the city into...
17 min
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
The Friendship Recession | Richard Reeves
Why friendships are becoming rarer in America, explained by author Richard Reeves. 
9 min
The Great Disconnect
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are isolating ourselves from one another, and because of this, facing a health crisis that affects...
60 min
This "I Trust You" Social Experiment Shows a More Beautiful World Is Possible
This "I Trust You" Social Experiment Shows a More Beautiful World Is Possible
Karim Sulayman is an Arab-American tenor from Chicago. Ten days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Sulayman teamed up with filmmaker Meredith Kaufman Younger to perform a trust experiment. Watch this silent video (set to Sulayman singing Sinead O'Connor's "In this...
4 min
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis
Why You Should Be Kind To Everyone | Daryl Davis
One person’s kindness has the power to change the world. Let me prove it. - Daryl Davis   "I’ve been to 57 countries on every continent except Antarctica. I’ve played music in every state except Alaska. I’ve gotte
7 min
The Shadow of Righteousness | Ayishat Akanbi & Anthea Lawson
The Shadow of Righteousness | Ayishat Akanbi & Anthea Lawson
This was a brilliant dialogue about the shadow of righteousness in progressive circles, between the cultural commentator Ayishat Akanbi and the author of the Entangled Activist, Anthea Lawson.
31 min
The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual | Wade Davis
The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual | Wade Davis
Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.
18 min
We The People | Mark Charles
We The People | Mark Charles
Mark Charles explains the fundamental design of the founding documents of the United States of America that allows white, landowning men to flourish and maintain power. He examines how the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence did not recognize all the...
6 min
How To Have A Relationship With A Wild Animal | Steve Karlin
How To Have A Relationship With A Wild Animal | Steve Karlin
How does a human being develop a relationship with a wild animal? Steve Karlin, of Wildlife Associates, is a wild animal rehabilitation expert that explains how animals can sense how we think and feel, and what they need in order to trust a relationship with a human.
7 min
How Trees Talk | Suzanne Simard
How Trees Talk | Suzanne Simard
Scientist Suzanne Simard explains the complex intelligence of how trees communicate with one another and are super cooperators rather than competitors. This beautiful story takes you into the forest to see how trees share resources and protect each other from invaders and...
5 min
How To Handle Our Inner Cynicism | Mr Rogers
How To Handle Our Inner Cynicism | Mr Rogers
I didn't know much about Mister Rogers nor his classic show "Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood" until I saw the Tom Hanks film, A Beautiful Day In The Neighbourhood. Here's my thoughts on what it can teach us about the inner cynicism that we all fall prey to from time to time.
13 min
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble
In his landmark provocative style, Stephen Jenkinson makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. Come of Age does not offer tips on how to be a better senior citizen or how to be...
Stephen Jenkinson
Tomorrow's Children
Tomorrow's Children (2001)
Do politically expedient proposals for more testing prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century? What is the role of schools in a time when the mass media are children's most frequent teachers? In Tomorrow's Children, based on her groundbreaking book of the same...
35 min
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons
This Land is Our Land: The Fight to Reclaim the Commons (2010)
For more than three decades, transnational corporations have been busy buying up what used to be known as the commons -- everything from our forests and our oceans to our broadcast airwaves and our most important intellectual and cultural works. In This Land is Our Land...
47 min
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that offer practical...
47 min
To Coddiwomple: to Travel in a Purposeful Manner Towards a Vague Destination
To Coddiwomple: to Travel in a Purposeful Manner Towards a Vague Destination (2021)
A journey away from the rat race..
63 min
Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation
Into the Soil | Regenerative Farming & Food Fermentation (2022)
”A refreshing perspective on what it means to be wealthy” – Don Smith, Kiss the Ground
32 min
The Local Planet VS the Global Empire of Corporations
The Local Planet VS the Global Empire of Corporations
If you judge that the world is dominated by the American, Russian, Chinese or European empire, you are completely wrong. The real (silent and invisible) empire is that of the corporations (giant companies and banks) that today control practically all fields of human activity...
Victor M. Toledo
The Modern Eco Village | BedZED
The Modern Eco Village | BedZED
The BedZED eco-village is a sustainable housing development based in London, UK. Going Green went to the eco-village to see both the green building design and the sustainable community.
4 min
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution, a film by the international NGO Local Futures, shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
51 min
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
"Of all the reasons why we moved to the Netherlands, the independence of children is probably the most important one." 
13 min
Redefining Prosperity
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The story of how a mining town recovered from its legacy of pollution and prospered by building community around the battle to save their beautiful river. Born in the California Gold Rush, Nevada City was once the scene of some of the most destructive environmental...
57 min
Wild Family — A Film About Parenting
Wild Family — A Film About Parenting (2015)
Eight-months pregnant with their third child, the parents of preschoolers trail blaze across the U.S.A., cameras firing. They record the stories of 40 wild families, exploring new ways to raise kids. Through outdoor adventures and in-depth interviews, their findings reveal a...
98 min
Wake Up Child - A Short Film on Intimacy with Nature
Wake Up Child - A Short Film on Intimacy with Nature
In these times of great transitions, Mother Earth speaks to us in a call for empowerment and greater intimacy with Her as a way to a Regenerative Future. This is an invitation to join the movement for a Transformative Culture, a culture where being part of Nature is our...
7 min
A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems
A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems
Many people think, “There always has been war and there always will be war.” But scientific evidence shows that some societies have successfully shunned war by creating peace systems.
9 min
A Gathering of the Tribe | POWERFUL Short Film by Charles Eisenstein
A Gathering of the Tribe | POWERFUL Short Film by Charles Eisenstein
"This story made me cry the first time I read it in Charles Eisenstein’s book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible” and every time I have watched it since. Because to me, it is a true story. Whether actually true or metaphorically true, it doesn’t matter. It...
10 min
Together We Grow
Together We Grow (2022)
“This beautiful film is the perfect antidote to the cynical narrative that says people are inherently selfish... This film will melt your heart. Guaranteed.” – Rob Hopkins, author; co-founder Transition Network
39 min
Prime Farmland: The Fight to Stop a Mega-Sized Industrial Park in Rural Indiana
Prime Farmland: The Fight to Stop a Mega-Sized Industrial Park in Rural Indiana (2020)
This documentary film follows residents, farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a 7,200 acre mega-sized industrial park planned in rural Indiana.
39 min
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories (2022) (trailer)
On Australian Shores: Survivor Stories is a new documentary which will be released in 2022: watch this space for more information!
1 min
230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage
230 People LIVING COMMUNALLY: Tour of Ithaca EcoVillage
The EcoVillage at Ithaca was established in 1991 and has become a mature communal village with three neighborhoods developed on 10% of the land with 90% of the land devoted to farmland and natural areas. Given that we're interested in communally living at Flock, we took quite...
75 min
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Inspired by Lewis Hyde’s beloved classic “The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World”, GIFT is a tribute to something that can’t be measured or counted, bought or sold. An intimate exploration of real-life gift economies, it’s a reflection on the creative...
91 min
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and Moved to the Netherlands Instead)
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia (and Moved to the Netherlands Instead)
I was always told, growing up, that the suburbs (of Canada) are a good place to raise children. But I've come to appreciate the importance of independence for the a child's development, something that's nearly impossible in today's car-dependent suburbs. It was pretty clear...
12 min
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their neighborhoods. In Washington, DC, where high school dropout rates average 40%, a group of...
83 min