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The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)
This Afristar (www.afristarfoundation.org) produced educational documentary offers step-by-step instructions on how to establish a permaculture garden at a school. 
28 min
How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever
How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever
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19 min
How Israelis are Brainwashed
How Israelis are Brainwashed
Why do Israelis dance and celebrate the death and destruction in Gaza? The answer lies in the dehumanization of Palestinians that is at the core of Israeli society. 
5 min
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning
This is the full interview of Dr Roxy Manning on the subject of Nonviolent Communication. 
35 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
Jewish-American Activist Maya Edery on Her Journey Away from Zionism
Jewish-American Activist Maya Edery on Her Journey Away from Zionism
“Our education was so entrenched in believing that you should support Israel and that being Jewish meant loving and supporting Israel that I didn’t know there was another way to be Jewish.” Jewish-American activist, Maya Edery, from Jewish Voice for Peace, speaks to MEE...
6 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
Battling Race Essentialism in Student Government | Sahar Tartak
Battling Race Essentialism in Student Government | Sahar Tartak
"Again these are kids. You don't teach kids that they're lousy and just [think] somehow that's going to redeem the world and make it less racist."
10 min
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2022) (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 American West and colonialism abroad. A film by Dru Holley.
2 min
10 Minutes Matter
10 Minutes Matter
70% of children experiencing mental health problems do not receive intervention early enough. That's why 10 minutes to talk to a child in your life could really make a difference.
2 min
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman
James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you. 
9 min
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
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
For marketers who wish to reach the lucrative youth market, the relatively uncluttered medium of the school environment represents the final frontier -- access to a captive audience of millions of students. Meanwhile dwindling federal, state, and local funding for education...
45 min
How To Make Communist Propaganda
How To Make Communist Propaganda
Ever wonder how I make my videos? Here's a good starting point!  – Second Thought
18 min
Human: The World Within
Human: The World Within (2021) (trailer)
Cutting-edge science and captivating personal stories collide in this illuminating docuseries about the incredible workings of the human body.
2 min
No Small Matter
No Small Matter (2019) (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.
2 min
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed (2021)
Raised on Porn exposes the ways pornography has become the new sex education for children and unpacks the dangerous lifelong implications of this global phenomenon. Through riveting firsthand accounts, cinematic re-enactments, 3D animation, and interviews with the world’s...
37 min
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Allergies, obesity, asthma, diabetes, auto-immune and intestinal disorders are all on the rise, with the incidence of some diseases doubling every ten years. New research points to changes in the ecosystem of microbes that live on and inside every one of us -- our microbiomes...
57 min
Why Student Debt Is So Hard to Forgive
Why Student Debt Is So Hard to Forgive
Americans are currently burdened with about 1.57 trillion dollars of student debt, and that number is climbing rapidly. For many, a lifetime of debt has become the painful reality of life in the United States. Why? What happened to make this country, and this economic system...
16 min
Making Sense with Scout Mindset | Julia Galef
Making Sense with Scout Mindset | Julia Galef
Why do some people see things that others don't? Julia Galef believes that it's because they're using what she calls Scout Mindset.
53 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
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community?
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
OYLER profiles how an innovative "community school" helped fuel a dramatic turnaround in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, part of a growing national movement to help poor children succeed by transforming schools to meet basic health, social, and nutritional needs. Before...
56 min
Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals
Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals
Today's school children are engulfed by corporate apps, software, and textbooks biased toward the corporate definitions of an economy and myths about "free markets."
Ralph Nader
The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot
The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot
And what we can do about it...
5 min
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains
Grading is a scam and motivation is a myth. Those sound like bold words, but today we're going to dive down the rabbit hole and prove, once and for all, that our current state of schooling (and of...well..._everything_) is rotten to its core. ...that's all a little dramatic...
53 min
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture (2020)
This 36-minute documentary follows the lives of 5 young explorers on their journey through the 5-week Ecovillage Design Education program in Switzerland, which navigates today's challenges as opportunities to build a regenerative future for all.
36 min
The Problem With American Education
The Problem With American Education
Americans from across the political spectrum tend to agree that our education system is failing our students. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at three of the biggest problems the system faces, and considers some possible solutions.
18 min
The Art of Letting Go (Taoism Documentary)
The Art of Letting Go (Taoism Documentary)
February, 2012, my wife, Gayoung, and I were moving back to Asia after two years in Australia. We had no plan. We just wanted to let go of our lives and return to Asia permanently. The Art of Letting Go is a full-length documentary that follows us for one year on an amazing...
93 min
Bullied
Bullied (2019)
From people who live with the scars of having been bullied to families who now grieve the loss of their child to suicide in the wake of brutal acts of bullying, this film examines the reasons why people bully and the fallout that occurs from that bullying. 
67 min
Vampires, They Exist?!
Vampires, They Exist?! (2020)
Vampires reveal their existence to human beings. The media reacts. In the first half, this film examines the reaction of two media outlets as well as the reaction of several college students, captured by a film student conducting man on the street interviews. In the second...
33 min
Happy Teachers Will Change the World: Bringing Mindfulness into Education
Happy Teachers Will Change the World: Bringing Mindfulness into Education (2015)
Being a teacher in the world of today is a demanding job with lots of challenges, often resulting in stress and burn-out. Is there a solution?
39 min
Chain Reactions
Chain Reactions (2019)
Is it possible to get into college if you’ve never been through the traditional k-12 school system? That’s one of the questions I explore in my new film Self-Taught. 
10 min
Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures
Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures
This week's video is about the imperialist practice of whitewashing and revising the histories of radical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Paine. Why do American history books leave out so much of King's activism? Come find out!
14 min
Just the Way You Are
Just the Way You Are
"Growing up I had vague memories of Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but watching his program now as an adult and as a filmmaker I was fascinated by the degree of sophistication and discipline Rogers brought to his show.
15 min
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards
We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people - we must examine privilege and power in our relationships with our children, the world’s most vulnerable citizens and embrace chaos in efforts to allow trust-based practices to emerge. We can do this...
12 min
To Return
To Return (2018)
A controversial film experiment, a courageous journey and a unique collaboration between filmmaker and refugee; which is not without consequences. A film by David Fedele & Kumut Imesh.
78 min
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and...
7 min
Student Debt Forgiveness: Let's Do Some Math
Student Debt Forgiveness: Let's Do Some Math
What would it cost to wipe out everybody’s student loans? The answer may surprise you.
Sparky Abraham
An Opportunity to Reconnect With Our Origins
An Opportunity to Reconnect With Our Origins
For generations, a variety of factors have weakened the traditional intergenerational socio-cultural structures of Indigenous people around the world.
Daniel Henryk Rasolt
Climate: A New Story with Charles Eisenstein
Climate: A New Story with Charles Eisenstein
Climate: A New Story shows us how we can reframe our thinking. Our Earth is not simply a resource, it is complex, living and fragile. Charles Eisenstein expresses how we might transform our mindset, to reveal a process that could be the quickest way to reverse climate...
13 min
Being and Becoming
Being and Becoming (2014)
Being and Becoming explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options.
99 min
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
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
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down
In this video we examine how public schools and the mainstream media have contributed to the growth of a passive citizenry, thus paving the way for the rise of tyranny. We then look at the role anti-authoritarians play in a free and flourishing society.
11 min
How Do We Transform Education? | Nariman Moustafa
How Do We Transform Education? | Nariman Moustafa
Most people sense that the conventional, industrial school system isn't working and that change needs to happen. But how do we transform education? In this video, Nariman Moustafa shares her "7Cs" framework for conceptualizing the bottom-up, radical shift that is taking place...
5 min
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
California once had more linguistic variety than all of Europe. “Language Keepers” is a 6-part series following four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize their languages.
105 min
Speaking of Nature
Speaking of Nature
A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths...
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
Towards a Regenerative Cosmology: Re-Inhabitation, Re-Enchantment, Re-Indigenisation
The ‘design’ brief to redesign the human impact on Earth from predominantly exploitative and destructive to by and large regenerative and health-generating invites us to ask fundamental questions that define the story we tell about the world and our role in it. Innovating...
Daniel Christian Wahl
Karuk: Language of a River
Karuk: Language of a River
Walking along the Klamath River in Northern California, Phil Albers reflects on the Karuk language and the ancestral land of the Karuk people that surrounds it. This film premiered in the fifth issue of Emergence Magazine on "Language" as part of the six-part multimedia story...
5 min
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)
Why is it that some children thrive while others do not? Is it a matter of genetics, IQ, socioeconomic background or education? Every child deserves to reach their full potential and the early years are the best possible start in life that could transform the world.
60 min
School Circles: Every Voice Matters
School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)
School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to dialogue, discuss proposals, mediate conflicts and make decisions about their school life.
89 min
The Deceptive Promise of Free Trade
The Deceptive Promise of Free Trade (2018)
Is free trade truly free - and fair? What roles do US President Trump, economic powerhouse China, and the EU play in global trade? When it comes to global trade, it would seem that trickery, threats and deception are the order of the day - yet all this takes place largely...
43 min
Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison
Documentary Provides Rare Look at Higher Education in Prison
Educating inmates is cheaper than locking them up again, in addition to being the right thing to do. A new PBS documentary goes behind the scenes.
Mneesha Gellman/Emerson College
Your Life in 1 Minute
Your Life in 1 Minute
This is the average Westerner’s life, condensed in a single minute.
1 min
35 Year Industry Veteran Takes on Climate Change Denial and Inaction With the Climate Trail
35 Year Industry Veteran Takes on Climate Change Denial and Inaction With the Climate Trail
The Climate Trail is a "good, realistic, and sobering" free game about the post-apocalyptic world we face if we continue on our current path.
William Volk
COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required
COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)
Common Notions is a film about the Purple Thistle Centre, a youth-run arts and activism space in Vancouver, BC, and about education, learning, friendship, and youth liberation.
38 min
European Paganism and Christianization
European Paganism and Christianization
In contemporary conversations about decolonization, this is a point which is often overlooked – Europeans are indigenous too. Before the spread of Christianity, Europe was home to a profusion of  religious beliefs, most of which are pejoratively referred to as paganism. The...
Jordan Engel
Scott Noble's History of Resistance
Scott Noble's History of Resistance
Scott Noble has been making documentary films for close to a decade. His films are consistently thoughtful and never superficial. Reminiscent of Chris Marker’s documentary work in style and approach, Noble’s films remind us that history is important. They also provoke a sense...
Ron Jacobs
The Way Politicians Talk about Economics is Wrong – and Dangerous
The Way Politicians Talk about Economics is Wrong – and Dangerous
The government is very excited about “returning to budget surplus”. But what does it actually mean? Because so far, chasing surpluses has gutted our schools and hospitals. It's stopped us from acting on climate catastrophe. It's condemned folks doing it tough to starve. Why?...
16 min
Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University
Vertical Literacy: Reimagining the 21st-Century University
The Fridays For Future (FFF) climate strike by high school students may well be one of the most important, yet hardly covered stories by the US media today. During the week of March 15th alone, 1.6 million strikers were counted across 125 countries. This environmental...
Otto Scharmer