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Shakespeare Behind Bars: How Three Films Sparked Transformation in an Upstate New York Prison 10 min
Shakespeare Behind Bars: How Three Films Sparked Transformation in an Upstate New York Prison
Rehabilitation through the Arts brought a screening of three films based on Shakespearean works to an upstate New York prison with powerful results. The timeless themes of Shakespeare's writings, themes such as what it means to be a man, to be human, to live in a society with...
CultureWorks
Teaching for Tomorrow: Flipped Learning 3 min
Teaching for Tomorrow: Flipped Learning
In "flipped learning," students watch podcasts of their teacher's lectures on their own time and spend their time in the classroom applying what they've learned at home. This allows students to learn at their own pace by watching the lecture as many times as they need...
GOOD Magazine
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
A 10-Point Eco-Socialist Education Agenda
There's much more we can and should do. But this plan would get us moving in the right direction: expanding educational public goods that are democratic, ecological, and life-affirming.
TheLastFarm
The Librarians 87 min
The Librarians (2025)
When lawmakers seek to review a list of books, librarians find themselves on the frontlines of a national battle. Across the U.S., librarians face the impact of uniting against library collection standards that include restrictions on race-related and LGBTQIA+ content...
‘You Said You Wanted a Fight’: On Memory, Solidarity, and Collective Struggle (Music Video) 4 min
‘You Said You Wanted a Fight’: On Memory, Solidarity, and Collective Struggle (Music Video)
“You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making people forget how often collective struggle and solidarity have already worked.
CRITICAL ACTION
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Breaking the Sound Barrier
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan have written a weekly column for nearly two decades. This is their final dispatch, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities in people-centered journalism.
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers
LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers
“Politicians should not be rewarded for enabling a genocide nor in perpetuating Israel's periodic bombing attacks on Palestinians.”
Marcy Winograd
Inequality and the Rise of the Nationalist Right 37 min
Inequality and the Rise of the Nationalist Right
Nationalist right parties aren’t winning because their ideas are new or good. They’re winning because after 40 years of bipartisan neoliberalism, people are desperate, angry, and looking for anyone who seems to actually name their pain and offer a way out.
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids Do All the Socialism 89 min
Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids Do All the Socialism
The leading actors of the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917 sought to establish socialism: a deeply democratic economic and political system where the employee/employer relationship is abolished, and where workers control their workplaces, the means of...
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps...
Liam Kavanagh
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
The Central Function of Race in America Has Been to Prevent Class Solidarity
From the very beginning of the American project, race has been the primary tool for dividing the population against itself.
Tim Hjersted
The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say | Nate Hagens 27 min
The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say | Nate Hagens
In this week’s Frankly, Nate considers the ways in which our social species overvalues false-confidence rather than the more honest and inquisitive response of “I don’t know.” He invites us to consider the science behind this cultural bias towards certainty: from our...
Nate Hagens
‘I’m More American Than You’ - Mehdi Unloads on Matt Walsh 9 min
‘I’m More American Than You’ - Mehdi Unloads on Matt Walsh
Watch Zeteo’s editor in chief Mehdi Hasan educate the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh on the history of slavery, including Muslim slavery, in the United States; point out the many and varied contributions of Muslim Americans to this country; and debunk his lazy conservative talking...
Zeteo
Why Feeling Informed Isn't Being Informed (Goose Explains) 6 min
Why Feeling Informed Isn't Being Informed (Goose Explains)
goose explains why knowing headlines isn’t the same as understanding the world.
Honkology
How the Germans Fell for Fascism 10 min
How the Germans Fell for Fascism
How did the Germans fall for fascism in the first place? Chris Valenti explains how the climate for a dark disgusting myth festered into the rise of the Nazis
Valenti Videos
Is ANTIFAscism Really a Violent, Extremist Movement? | Matthew Cooke 7 min
Is ANTIFAscism Really a Violent, Extremist Movement? | Matthew Cooke
Is ANTIFAscism a terror movement? History answers clearly.
Matthew Cooke
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
The True Meaning of Democratic Socialism: A Union Educator’s View
If Mamdani is elected mayor, as it now looks he will be, he will not be the first democratic socialist elected as the mayor of New York City.
Leo Casey
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education 77 min
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
1942. Occupied Norway. Teachers must join the Nazi Teachers’ League and teach Nazi ideas in their classrooms. 8,000 of them write protest letters. They are threatened with salary withdrawal and the sack. Still they refuse. In a desperate attempt to break them, the Nazi...
Jon Seal
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green 23 min
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Whether conversing with friends, family, spouses, teachers, bosses or employees, the methods in which we’ve learned to communicate often fail us. There is much misspoken/misunderstood and all parties deal with frustration and confusion as a result. As a remedy, NVC teaches...
kat green
FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America 14 min
FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America
What really happened in the United States in 1933?
Taken for Granted
The War on Thinking in America 58 min
The War on Thinking in America
Why does America distrust experts and celebrate ignorance? From Hofstadter to Postman to Jacoby, this video explores how anti-intellectualism shaped U.S. culture turning politics into entertainment, worshipping technology, and making truth optional.
SPARKUP
The Death of the Holocaust Industry | Chris Hedges 16 min
The Death of the Holocaust Industry | Chris Hedges
The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponization of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 29 min
Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
John Oliver discusses Donald Trump’s war on higher education, the history of right-wing attacks on what universities research and teach, and how a weird little tree frog might – might! – just save us all.Subscribe to the #lastweektonight YouTube channel for more almost news...
LastWeekTonight
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
Missing Words: How Can We Respond to Our Biggest Challenges If We Don't Have Words to Describe Them?
In 2022, I did an Earth Day talk called Words vs Reality, and it cataloged three dozen or so terms that – from a systems perspective – would actually require new labels. For example, fossil fuels might better be labeled flammable fossils, or consumer might be human. After...
Nate Hagens
Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby On American Academia 56 min
Velvet Prisons: Russell Jacoby On American Academia (2016)
This provocative documentary on maverick academic Russell Jacoby explores the ignominious fate of public intellectuals, the neutering of radicalism in American public life, and the need for daring Utopian thought.
This Will Be My Most Disliked Video On Youtube 23 min
This Will Be My Most Disliked Video On Youtube
Climate change is happening, but has it ever happened before?
Astrum
Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street? 8 min
Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?
Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It’s part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think.
Robert Reich
Atomic Bombing of Japan Was NOT Necessary To End WWII. US Gov't Documents Admit It 26 min
Atomic Bombing of Japan Was NOT Necessary To End WWII. US Gov't Documents Admit It
US government documents admit that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not necessary to end WWII. Japan was on the verge of surrendering. The nuclear attack was the first strike in Washington's Cold War on the Soviet Union. Ben Norton reviews the historical record.
Geopolitical Economy Report
How Decades of Fake History Led To the Destruction of Gaza 84 min
How Decades of Fake History Led To the Destruction of Gaza
A message to Jews who support the war in Gaza. How lies about 1948 and Oslo, led to the destruction of Gaza.
WHAT IS POLITICS?
The Last Class with Robert Reich 3 min
The Last Class with Robert Reich (trailer)
Robert Reich has run the Labor Department, racked up over a billion video views, and shaped public debate. But his true calling is teaching. After a lifetime of impact, he's stepping into the classroom one final time.
Why Modern Democracy Is Just a Polite Dictatorship – Plato Knew This 30 min
Why Modern Democracy Is Just a Polite Dictatorship – Plato Knew This
Is modern democracy truly freedom, or just a more polite form of control? In this eye-opening analysis, we explore Plato's philosophy, uncovering how democracies evolve into authoritarian systems, not through force, but through psychological manipulation, media control, and...
Philosophy Coded
What Is Zionism? 37 min
What Is Zionism?
The first of an in-depth, three part series explaining the Israel / Palestine conflict through the lens of the movement at its heart: Zionism. - Ryan Chapman
Ryan Chapman
CUBA 1961 31 min
CUBA 1961
In 1961, over 250,000 Cubans joined their country’s National Literacy Campaign and taught more than 707,000 other Cubans to read and write. Almost half of these volunteer teachers were under 18. More than half were women. This documentary explores the experiences of several...
Catherine Murphy
This Bill Could Destroy Texas Public Schools. Your State Could Be Next. 10 min
This Bill Could Destroy Texas Public Schools. Your State Could Be Next.
Texas is on the verge of passing a law that could defund public education. Vouchers send public taxpayer dollars to private schools. It could cost taxpayers $10 billion by 2030. And, it could destroy Friday Night Lights.
More Perfect Union
"Encouraging & Important": Harvard Rejected Trump Takeover. Will Other Institutions Join the Fight? 17 min
"Encouraging & Important": Harvard Rejected Trump Takeover. Will Other Institutions Join the Fight?
Harvard University has pushed back as President Trump ramps up his attacks on higher education. After Harvard rejected demands by the Trump administration to eliminate all DEI initiatives and further crack down on Palestinian rights protests, including reporting international...
Democracy Now!
What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War 6 min
What They Didn't Teach You About the Civil War
What do you know about the Civil War? Everyone knows the familiar images: soldiers in Union blue versus troops in Confederate gray, the Emancipation Proclamation, the triumphant end of slavery. But there’s something schools don’t teach about the Civil War: it was also...
The Gravel Institute
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
Restoring Lies and Insanity to American History
The assault on historical memory by the Trump administration is designed to obliterate our shared understanding of reality and whitewash the crimes of the past to whitewash the crimes of the present.
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Trump's War on Education 14 min
Chris Hedges: Trump's War on Education
Read the full article here (originally published March 11, 2025):
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley) | The Chris Hedges Report 60 min
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (w/ Jason Stanley) | The Chris Hedges Report
Jason Stanley, author, American philosopher and Yale professor, joins host Chris Hedges on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report to give proper context to what fascism means and how the Trump administration’s second term could really mean the completion of the American...
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Colorblind | Tim Wise 75 min
Colorblind | Tim Wise
Anti-racist writer and educator Tim Wise presented a talk on “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity,” at Stetson University in February.
Stetson University
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States 91 min
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2016)
“As long as rabbits don't have historians, history will be written by the hunters.” With the tremendous success of his book, A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn...
Azam Olivier
Worbs: When Political Terms Have No Meaning 34 min
Worbs: When Political Terms Have No Meaning
Politics is the only practical discipline where none of the basic concepts have clear consensus definitions. This is why everything is so dumb.
WHAT IS POLITICS?
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Tim Hjersted
The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School 28 min
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.
How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever 19 min
How The Internet Destroyed Critical Thinking Forever
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Moon
How Israelis are Brainwashed 5 min
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.
uncivilized
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning 35 min
Nonviolent Communication with Dr Roxy Manning
This is the full interview of Dr Roxy Manning on the subject of Nonviolent Communication.
BodeRiis
Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg: A Brief Introduction 11 min
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...
morley1tube
I'm a Rhino 18 min
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.
Elliot Connor
Jewish-American Activist Maya Edery on Her Journey Away from Zionism 6 min
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...
Middle East Eye
50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth
50 Paradigm-Shifting Documentaries for a Wise Earth
Documentaries have an incredible power to create wiser, engaged citizens and thus a wiser Earth.
Films For Action
Battling Race Essentialism in Student Government | Sahar Tartak 10 min
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."
Fair For All
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts 2 min
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (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.
10 Minutes Matter 2 min
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.
The Happy Confident Company
Anthropologist Debunks Darwin’s Most Abused Idea | James Suzman 9 min
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.
Big Think
Tomorrow's Children 35 min
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...
Media Education Foundation
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom 45 min
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...
Sut Jhally
How To Make Communist Propaganda 18 min
How To Make Communist Propaganda
Ever wonder how I make my videos? Here's a good starting point!  – Second Thought
Second Thought
Human: The World Within 2 min
Human: The World Within (trailer)
Cutting-edge science and captivating personal stories collide in this illuminating docuseries about the incredible workings of the human body.
No Small Matter 2 min
No Small Matter (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.
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed 37 min
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...
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes 57 min
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...
Rivkah Beth Medow
Why Student Debt Is So Hard to Forgive 16 min
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...
Second Thought
Making Sense with Scout Mindset | Julia Galef 53 min
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.
Julia Galef
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature 83 min
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.
Ellie Walton
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? 56 min
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...
Amy Scott
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 5 min
The Massive Failing in Children's Education | George Monbiot
And what we can do about it...
Double Down News
Grading is a Scam (and Motivation is a Myth) | A Professor Explains 53 min
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...
Zoe Bee
The Hardest Thing I've Ever Loved: Creating a Transformative Culture 36 min
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.
The Problem With American Education 18 min
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.
Second Thought
The Art of Letting Go (Taoism Documentary) 93 min
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...
Jason Gregory
Bullied 67 min
Bullied (2019) ($4)
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.
Vampires, They Exist?! 33 min
Vampires, They Exist?!
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...
Jordan Ferraro
Happy Teachers Will Change the World: Bringing Mindfulness into Education 39 min
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?
Chain Reactions 10 min
Chain Reactions
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.
Self-Taught Movie
Why American History Whitewashes Radical Figures 14 min
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!
Second Thought
Just the Way You Are 15 min
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.
Travis Lee Ratcliff
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards 12 min
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...
TEDx Talks
To Return 78 min
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.
How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History 7 min
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...
Vox
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 13 min
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...
Global Documentary
Being and Becoming 99 min
Being and Becoming (2014) ($6)
Being and Becoming explores the theme of trusting children and their development, and invites us to question our learning paradigms and options.
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners 77 min
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.
Why Public Schools And The Mainstream Media Dumb Us Down 11 min
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.
Academy of Ideas
How Do We Transform Education? | Nariman Moustafa 5 min
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...
EDIT - Education in Transformation
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California 105 min
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.
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
Conversing with Nature: The Linguistic Roots of Environmental Consciousness
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 5 min
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...
Emergence Magazine
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First 60 min
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? BRAIN MATTERS reveals that learning begins way before children go to school and that it's the experiences children are exposed to that determine...
Carlota Nelson
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands 89 min
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (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.
Marianne Osório
The Deceptive Promise of Free Trade 43 min
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...
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 1 min
Your Life in 1 Minute
This is the average Westerner’s life, condensed in a single minute.
Sofo Archon
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 38 min
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.
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
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