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Food Inc.
Food Inc. (2008)
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 · 226,815 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...
7 min · 47,291 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 · 28,026 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 · 13,964 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 · 9,346 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 · 6,363 views · 4.3 stars
Food Savers
Food Savers (2013) (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 European households throw away 100 billion Euros worth of food each year. Thurn asks why is it...
4 min · 5,962 views · 5 stars
Food, Earth, Happiness
Food, Earth, Happiness (2019)
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 · 4,581 views · 4.3 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 · 3,471 views · 4 stars
Food Chains
Food Chains (2014) (trailer)
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the U
2 min · 2,229 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 · 1,809 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 · 347 views · 4 stars
Food, Inc. 2
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) (trailer)
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 Omnivore’s Dilemma) and Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) to take a...
3 min · 156 views · unrated
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
What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single...
Vice Motherboard · 6,929 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 we’ve 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 · 14,048 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 · 1,199 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 · 1,354 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 · 80,027 views · 4.6 stars
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 · 14,951 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 haven’t, here are a few tidbits of information to catch you up on the issue.
Rob Greenfield · 7,336 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 UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, epidemiologists writing in The Lancet and a host of other highly-regarded researchers and organisations. But it...
Judith Friedlander · 6,290 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, you’ll find mechanics like attacking, stealing, and backstabbing. Indigenous communities looking to facilitate...
Elizabeth LaPensée · 7,585 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 · 3,531 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 · 37,873 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 · 7,445 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 · 20,568 views · 4 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 · 8,194 views · 4.7 stars
Wasted Waste
Wasted Waste (2018)
3,6 million kg of food is wasted every day. 870 million people could be fed only with the world’s wasted food (FAO). 800 million people 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 never consumed.
84 min · 6,446 views · 4.8 stars
Sustenance
Sustenance (2020)
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 · 2,710 views · unrated
In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth
In Our Hands: A Documentary Series about People Regenerating Their Lives & The Earth (2020)
‘In Our Hands’ / ‘En Nuestras Manos’ is a documentary series about a movement to restore ecological farming around the world. Filmmaker Matt Anderson (‘Fall and Winter’, 2013) traveled to over 40 farms and gardens in 7 countries to document the profound impact the GROW...
30 min · 16,380 views · 5 stars
Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots
Growing Solutions: Soil, Water, Farmers, Seeds, Roots (2020)
In the face of threats to our farming future such as climate change, people are innovating to protect and regenerate our most vital resources – soil, water, seeds, and our farmer workforce. Growing Solutions features a centuries-old water conservation method, a farmer who’s...
42 min · 1,239 views · 5 stars
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?
If Walmart Paid Its Employees a Living Wage, How Much Would Prices Go Up?
In the series “The Secret Life of a Food Stamp,” Marketplace reporter Krissy Clark traces how big-box stores make billions from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps. What’s more, the wages of many workers at these stores are so low that the...
2 min · 12,231 views · 5 stars
One Man's Epic Journey to Show The World Is Full of Good People!
One Man's Epic Journey to Show The World Is Full of Good People!
Rob Greenfield has a simple idea… that people are good and the world is a good place. So he decided to put his idea to the ultimate test by flying one way to a far off place with no money, no credit card, no cellphone, not even a toothbrush. Just the clothes on his back  and...
5 min · 3,277 views · 4.6 stars
A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
Londoners are rising to the challenges of climate change, food poverty, entrenched inequality and our nation’s mental and physical health crises by reviving one of the oldest human activities of all- sowing, saving and sharing seeds.
9 min · 17,005 views · 5 stars
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating
Fresh: New Thinking about What We're Eating (2009)
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...
70 min · 11,578 views · 5 stars
We All Live off the Land
We All Live off the Land
The other day I dreamed of a catfish being hooked in one of our lines during the 180 days I lived in the boreal forest. One of the reasons why I don't like living in civilization and eating food from the supermarket is that it is extremely easy to forget where food is coming...
Juan Pablo Quinonez · 1,653 views · 4 stars
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 chemicals–and simple swaps for a cleaner diet and supersized health. Experts from different areas of specialty explain why they won’t eat these eight foods.
April McCarthy · 103,349 views · 4 stars
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 · 96,324 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 with pictures — incredible, beautiful, literally awesome pictures — of planetary bodies 3 billion miles away, it's easy to forget what's happening on the soil beneath our own feet. 
Max Plenke · 57,226 views · 5 stars
The Future of Food
The Future of Food (2004) (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 · 55,995 views · 4.9 stars
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust
Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)
In this 30 minute video, Andrew Faust shares his inspiring vision for greater food and energy independence. It's a guide to feeding and providing power for our local communities in ways that are not just "sustainable" but truly regenerative and life-nourishing for humans and...
31 min · 35,786 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 · 32,398 views · 4.8 stars
Bonobo Starts Fires, Cooks His Own Food, and Knows 3,000 English Words
Bonobo Starts Fires, Cooks His Own Food, and Knows 3,000 English Words
A bonobo ape has learned how to start fires, cook his own food, put them out, and much, much more...
2 min · 28,301 views · 5 stars
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in creating your own garden of Eden.
82 min · 28,168 views · 5 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 · 24,293 views · unrated
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Local Futures · 18,637 views · 4.5 stars
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food
"As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud...
3 min · 18,513 views · 5 stars
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 1: Intro to the New Food Movement
Every person on earth needs food every day. Every day food is tended, harvested, transported, stored, and served up on our tables. In a very real sense, food cannot be separated from life itself. And so it has been said that changing the way we grow and eat food is one of the...
56 min · 16,971 views · 5 stars
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods
The Big Fat Truth about Low Fat Foods (2011)
For thousands across the UK, the new year usually means a new diet. But it's the supermarket rather than the health club that many are turning to. The low fat food industry is worth two billion pounds and there are more reduced calorie ready meals sold in January than at any...
57 min · 16,198 views · 3.2 stars
Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution
Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution (2011) (trailer)
Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger.  It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.  
2 min · 16,031 views · 4.2 stars
Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News
Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)
Thanks to the filmmakers, you can watch this film for free! If you'd like to show your thanks, you can buy a digital download of the film on this page for $10. All proceeds will go to the Media Freedom Foundation, which works closely with Project Censored. Whether you buy...
63 min · 14,722 views · 5 stars
Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry
Abolish Restaurants: A Worker's Critique of the Food Service Industry
"When one comes to think of it, it is strange that thousands of people in a great modern city should spend their waking hours swabbing dishes in hot dens underground. The question I am raising is why this life goes on--what purpose it serves, and who wants it to...
Prole.info · 14,645 views · 4.8 stars
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...
3 min · 14,532 views · 4.8 stars
Chipotle Fires First Shot to Take Down Big Food in This Brilliant Short Film
Chipotle Fires First Shot to Take Down Big Food in This Brilliant Short Film
Produced by Chipotle and created by the Academy Award–winning Moonbot Studios - this masterfully animated film feels like more than an implicitly subversive attack on big agribusiness corporations like Cargill, Tyson and Monsanto.
3 min · 12,892 views · 4.8 stars
Everything You Need to Know About Food Waste... In 11 Short Films
Everything You Need to Know About Food Waste... In 11 Short Films
1 in 7 Americans are food insecure, which means they are often hungry with no food to eat, yet we produce enough food to feed every American two times over. That’s about $165 billion worth of food that is not being eaten. So where’s all that extra food? Well it’s in our...
Rob Greenfield · 12,731 views · 4.2 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 over 800 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 · 12,581 views · 4.5 stars
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture
The Plummery is a suburban home where a backyard permaculture garden measuring only 100sq/m (1076 sq feet) produces over 400kg/900 pounds of food year-round. Kat Lavers describes her approach to gardening, including vertical and biointensive growing, and how important it is –...
9 min · 11,853 views · 4.2 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 · 11,773 views · 4.8 stars
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution
When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.
53 min · 11,556 views · 4 stars
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance
In the small town of Oxford, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. Their business Urban Gardener aims to build resilience and food security in their local community.
5 min · 11,456 views · 4.4 stars