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Food Inc.
Food Inc. (2008) ($3)
For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. Food, Inc. examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
93 min · 228,762 views · 4.6 stars
Food Matters (2008) (trailer)
Food Matters (2008) (trailer)
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." Hippocrates With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is...
7 min · 47,735 views · 3.7 stars
Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food
Food Fight: How Corporations Ruined Food (2012)
When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy...
72 min · 29,273 views · 4.3 stars
Food Waste Is a Massive Problem. Here's How to Fix It.
Food Waste Is a Massive Problem. Here's How to Fix It.
A new film highlights the food waste problem. Here are some things we can do to fix it.
Naomi Starkman · 14,066 views · 5 stars
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
Food Fascism in the Land of the Free
The food industry is no longer a free market. In fact, I'd go as far as saying it's becoming the most glaring example of corporate-government fascism in America. Actual monopolies fully control the basic building blocks of the food that makes up the majority of the...
Eric Blair · 9,390 views · 5 stars
Food Savers
Food Savers (trailer)
This follow-up to Valentin Thurns documentary, Taste the Waste, spotlights the people and companies throughout Europe who are working to salvage usable food. It is estimated that European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. Thurn asks why is it so...
4 min · 6,708 views · 5 stars
Food Fight (trailer)
Food Fight (trailer)
When we walk into a supermarket, we assume that we have the widest possible choice of healthy foods. But in fact, over the course of the 20th century, our food system was co-opted by corporate forces whose interests do not lie in providing the public with fresh, healthy...
2 min · 6,670 views · 4.3 stars
Food, Earth, Happiness
Food, Earth, Happiness
A majestic journey through Japan, Korea, and the United States that turns our perceptions of food (and life) upside down in a simple and poetic way. Solutions for our most pressing social and ecological issues come from unexpected places in a bite-sized film that New York...
20 min · 4,914 views · 4.3 stars
Food, Inc. 2
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar-nominated and Emmy-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors Michael Pollan (The Omnivores Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a fresh...
94 min · 3,662 views · 4.5 stars
Food Fight: A Brief History of American-centric Warfare
Food Fight: A Brief History of American-centric Warfare
An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict. For a breakdown of the actual battles portrayed in the film, visit the accompanying website link.
5 min · 3,598 views · 4 stars
Food Chains
Food Chains (trailer)
In this expos, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, whichpartners with growers and retailersto improve working conditions for farm laborers in the U
2 min · 2,454 views · 4.2 stars
Food Stamps vs. Farm Stamps: Subsidizing GOP Hypocrisy
Food Stamps vs. Farm Stamps: Subsidizing GOP Hypocrisy
Abby Martin breaks down the hypocrisy of the GOP pushing to defund food stamps by separating the program from the congressional farm bill, all the while accepting millions of dollars in kickbacks from the federal government in the form of subsidies for their private farms.
3 min · 1,858 views · 4 stars
Food Cooperatives and Garlic
Food Cooperatives and Garlic
Cooperatives are businesses owned by the people who use their services. Many communities look to their local food co-ops as a way to maintain greater control over their food. Garlic is isolated as just one of many foods that can communicate the importance of retail food...
5 min · 776 views · 4 stars
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
We Are Now One Year Away From Global Riots, Complex Systems Theorists Say
Whats the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are manypoverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etcbut the big one is more primal than any of the above. Its hunger, plain and simple. If theres a single...
Vice Motherboard · 7,002 views · 5 stars
In Our Hands: Seeding Change
In Our Hands: Seeding Change (2017)
Food and farming is in crisis. In just over a decade weve lost more than 33,000 farms from our countryside, and alongside this, bad diet is now causing more health problems than smoking! The fundamental link between people, food and the very land we stand on is being broken...
68 min · 15,308 views · 5 stars
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate?
Sustainable Table: What's on Your Plate? (2006)
Over nine months, director Mischa Hedges and his crew traveled the West Coast to learn more about our food system. While interviewing farmers, agricultural experts, nutritionists and activists, Mischa and his team learned that the standard methods of producing food do not...
50 min · 1,328 views · unrated
Tea Creek
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 family farm into a beacon of hope for Indigenous Food Sovereignty. In a world where the...
2 min · 488 views · unrated
The Farms of the Future
The Farms of the Future
Hou Xueying, a mother from Shanghai, was tired of food safety scares and of a city life disconnected from the land. So she moved her family to the country to learn about sustainable farming. Her parents disapproved; they had struggled to give her a comfortable life in the...
Isabel Marlens · 1,442 views · 5 stars
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days
Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)
"One thing you are going to learn about live food is that that's the diet that works the best. And what's the reason? When you cook the food, you lose 50% of the protein, 70% to 80% of the vitamins and minerals, and close to 100% of the phytonutrients." Gabriel Cousens...
91 min · 81,485 views · 4.6 stars
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 · 3,616 views · unrated
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Plant a Front Yard Community Garden and Meet Your Neighbors
Teaching you how to meet your neighbors, grow food together, share the harvest and create a life that excites you.
The Food is Free Project · 15,276 views · 5 stars
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
The Food Waste Fiasco: You Have to See It to Believe it
You may have already heard a few appalling facts about food waste but just in case you havent, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield · 7,415 views · 5 stars
An American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like
An American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like
This is what real revolution looks like. This is the future. Ron Finley in South Central LA was tired of living in a food desert and he decided to do something about it. He took back control over his food supply and health, while also setting his community on a path towards...
Dan West · 42,901 views · 4.9 stars
Wasted Waste
Wasted Waste (2018)
Watch on Vimeo | 3,6 million kg of food is wasted every day. 870 millionpeople could be fed only with the worlds wasted food (FAO). 800 millionpeople are starving around the world.1/3 of the food ends up in the trash while 198 000 hectares are used to produce food that is...
84 min · 6,770 views · 4.8 stars
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating (trailer)
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental...
3 min · 11,970 views · 5 stars
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Why aren't we talking about meat and climate change?
Reducing your carbon footprint by eating less red meat rarely gets attention. This strategy has been recommended by the UNs Food and Agriculture Organization, epidemiologists writing in The Lancet and a host of other highly-regarded researchers and organisations.But it...
Judith Friedlander · 6,336 views · 5 stars
Indigenous Board Game Brings Collaboration, Stewardship, Generosity, and Gratitude to the Table
Indigenous Board Game Brings Collaboration, Stewardship, Generosity, and Gratitude to the Table
If you look on a board game shelf, how many games will you see with actions based on collaboration, stewardship, generosity, and gratitude? Most likely, youll find mechanics like attacking, stealing, and backstabbing. Indigenous communities looking to facilitate...
Elizabeth LaPensée · 7,688 views · 4.5 stars
Farming for a Small Planet
Farming for a Small Planet
People yearn for alternatives to industrial agriculture, but they are worried. They see large-scale operations relying on corporate-supplied chemical inputs as the only high-productivity farming model. Another approach might be kinder to the environment and less risky for...
Frances Moore Lappé · 3,640 views · 5 stars
The World According to Monsanto
The World According to Monsanto (2008)
A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
109 min · 38,964 views · 4.1 stars
Eat Locally!
Eat Locally!
Supporting local farms is one of the best and easiest ways to eat healthy, reduce your carbon footprint, and strengthen your community.
Matthew Toplikar · 7,576 views · 4 stars
Supermarket Secrets
Supermarket Secrets (2007)
How and what we eat has radically changed over the past few decades with the all-consuming rise of the supermarket. But what price are we paying for the homogenized, cheap and convenient food that supermarkets specialize in? In a two-part programme, journalist Jane Moore...
99 min · 20,973 views · 4 stars
Edible City: Grow the Revolution
Edible City: Grow the Revolution (trailer)
Edible City tells the stories of the pioneers who are digging their hands into the dirt, working to transform their communities and do something truly revolutionary: grow local food systems that are socially just, environmentally sound, economically viable and resilient to...
10 min · 38,254 views · 4.6 stars
Fed Up
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S.
95 min · 9,399 views · 4.7 stars
A New Economy | New Business Models for a Cooperative Future
A New Economy | New Business Models for a Cooperative Future
Watch as several organizations move towards a more cooperative future by experimenting with open and non-traditional business models. Among them are a small craft-brew coop, a peer-to-peer open hardware lab and an urban agricultural social enterprise.
86 min · 1,637 views · unrated
Sustenance
Sustenance (2020) ($5)
A challenge instigated by a group of friends with different diets and eating habits takes the viewers of Sustenance on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability. Sustenance is a feature-length documentary about food's journey around the world and its...
88 min · 3,093 views · unrated
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
8 Foods That Food Experts Won't Eat
Food scientists are shedding light on items loaded with toxins and chemicalsand simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they wont eat these eight foods.
April McCarthy · 103,596 views · 4 stars
23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger
23 Food Sharing Projects That Are Disrupting Hunger
Food is one of our most basic needs. And yet, for over800 million people, food insecurity remains a daily issue. While top-down programs that address hunger certainly exist, more efficient, immediate solutions are sometimes found on the community level, where neighbors...
Cat Johnson · 12,679 views · 4.5 stars
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated filmtakes us into the world of animal agriculture to exposehow the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
4 min · 7,676 views · 4 stars
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
Bad Food Makes Kids Dumber, Study Says
A new study says 3-year-olds who mostly eat processed foods have lower IQs five years later. (So Pop-Tarts and Sunny-D are why we're "falling behind" China in math and science?) The study, cited in The Guardian, examined the diets of 14,000 wee Britlets, based on what their...
Holly Richmond · 5,024 views · unrated
Seafood Slaves - The Hidden Cost of Cheap Seafood
Seafood Slaves - The Hidden Cost of Cheap Seafood
In 2015, evidence of slavery on a massive scale surfaced in the remote islands of eastern Indonesia. Illegal fishing in Indonesian territorial waters had risen to an extreme level, but many of the Thai fishing boats responsible harboured a much worse secret aboard. In the...
24 min · 5,007 views · 5 stars
Our Food is Killing Us
Our Food is Killing Us
In thisvideo essay, I examine the causes and destruction of our current industrialized food system. Specifically, I dive into the capitalist commodification of food, and how most of the industrialized farming that takes place in the imperial core doesn't produce crops for our...
25 min · 1,704 views · unrated
Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
New Orleans, LA- "The fishermen have never seen anything like this," Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. "And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I've never seen anything like this either."
Dahr Jamail · 96,463 views · 5 stars
What Our Food Is Really Doing to the Planet, in 15 Jaw-Dropping Images
What Our Food Is Really Doing to the Planet, in 15 Jaw-Dropping Images
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 · 57,326 views · 5 stars
Waste = Food
Waste = Food (2007)
Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have...
49 min · 33,525 views · 4.8 stars
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the...
28 min · 6,650 views · unrated
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
If Fast Food Commercials Were Honest
Turns out the only thing grosser than the food is how the commercials are made.
3 min · 6,310 views · 4.9 stars
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition
Soul Food Junkies: Family, Food & Tradition (trailer)
Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt offers a fascinating exploration of the soul food tradition, its relevance to black cultural identity, and its continuing popularity despite the known dangers of high-fat, high-calorie diets.
2 min · 6,068 views · 4 stars
Tackling Food Waste Would Help Mitigate Climate Change
Tackling Food Waste Would Help Mitigate Climate Change
Eat your peas! Its the easiest way to fight climate change.
9 min · 2,924 views · 5 stars
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 tautahi 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 · 1,211 views · 5 stars
The Future of Food
The Future of Food (trailer)
There is a revolution happening in the farm fields and on the dinner tables of America a revolution that is transforming the very nature of the food we eat. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented...
2 min · 56,423 views · 4.9 stars
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
From Floating Food Forests to Vacant Lot Crops, Urban Farming Is Taking Root Across America
More than 1,500 community gardens have been started on vacant land in Detroit alone in recent years.
Sher Watts Spooner · 24,563 views · unrated
The Story of Food is Free
The Story of Food is Free
The Food is Free Project is creating a repeatable model of growing food and community. It is our vision and wish to empower you with the knowledge and know-how to transform your block and neighborhood step-by-step. Using salvaged materials we are building front yard community...
3 min · 14,684 views · 4.8 stars
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story (2014)
We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash?
73 min · 13,636 views · 4.8 stars
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat
A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is next for this new science and the public perception of this interesting field of research.
13 min · 6,717 views · unrated
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (2015) ($5)
Join best-selling author Michael Pollan (Food Rules, The Botany of Desire) on a fascinating journey to answer the question: What should I eat to be healthy? Cutting through confusion and busting myths and misconceptions, In Defense of Food shows how common sense and...
115 min · 6,031 views · unrated
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Do Synthetic Food Colors Cause Hyperactivity in Children?
Food coloring is the reason glace cherries are red rather than beige and that children's tongues sometimes appear freakishly blue. But man-made dyes may do more than make processed food look vibrant and whimsical. Some blame the additives for triggering behavioral problems...
Julie Deardorff · 5,716 views · 5 stars
In Defense of Food
In Defense of Food
Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible foodlike substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of 2006's ten best books by the New York...
11 min · 5,189 views · 3 stars
Watch Your Foodometer!
Watch Your Foodometer!
Interested in eating less oil? In this VideoNation/Hidden Driver report, animator Molly Schwartz keeps track of how many miles your food travels from field to fork.
3 min · 4,258 views · 4 stars
The Story of Food
The Story of Food (2020)
This is a 'No Fresh Carbon Footprint' Docuseries.
179 min · 3,695 views · 4.8 stars
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The Road to Food, Earth, and Happiness
The way we grow food has become one of the largest threats to our survival as a species, yet weve had a simple answer for millennia
Patrick Lydon · 866 views · 4.3 stars