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The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.

Chris Hedges

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.

Films For Action

Trump Declares War on Everyone

Trump has unleashed violence on America’s streets for much the same reason he has unleashed violence on Latin America and is planning to unleash it elsewhere: to display his own strength.

Robert Reich

Imperialism and Christian Nationalism Are Among History's Deadliest Forms of Collectivism

We've been trained to recognize collectivism only when it wears a hammer and sickle, but by branding American empire and Christian nationalism as defenders of liberty rather than as...

Tim Hjersted

Zohran Needs to Create Popular Assemblies

If Zohran Mamdani is serious about delivering on his promises, he needs more than policies — he needs institutions that empower working people. Popular assemblies offer a way to build a...

Gabriel Hetland, Bhaskar Sunkara

The Loneliness of Being an Iranian in the Diaspora

I sit with the reality that I have no idea what Iranians really want. I don’t know what they go through day to day. I haven’t been on the ground. I haven’t spoken to them.

Elaheh Farmand

Beyond the Border Wars: A Working-Class Approach to Immigration Reform

What would a genuinely humane immigration system actually look like? The answer is simpler than most politicians want to admit.

Tim Hjersted

Renee Good's Murder: a Rorschach Test About Defiance, Vulnerability, and Community

At the heart of this test lie two irreconcilable viewpoints: those who align themselves with armed agents and the task of protecting America from the “enemy within,” and those who...

Jordan Liz

Mayor Mamdani Proves Progress Does Not Need to Be Slow

Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

How to Start a Revolution in 2026

Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.

Roger Hallam

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators

ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany

How to Defeat Concentrated Private Power: A Practical Guide to Chris Hedges’ Prescription for Change

To defeat the rise of authoritarianism, Chris Hedges has called for mass movements, strikes and counter‑institutions to challenge corporate rule and revive democracy. This guide breaks...

Tim Hjersted

Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory

Gad Saad’s “suicidal empathy” thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.

Tim Hjersted

The Grand Illusion of Dying Empires

All empires, when they are dying, worship the idol of war. War will save the empire. War will resurrect past glory. War will teach an unruly world to obey. But those who bow down before...

Chris Hedges

The Pathology of Power: How America Learned to Love State Violence

The comments celebrating Renee Good's death reveal a psychological pattern familiar to anyone who has studied authoritarian movements: the sadistic pleasure derived from watching power...

Tim Hjersted

The Demoralized Mind

Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well?

John Schumaker

America the Rogue State

The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.

Chris Hedges

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!

Tim Hjersted

We Can't Battle the Bigotry Stoked by Trump without a Strategy to Alleviate the Chronic Misery Behind It

My relatives in Maine are deplorables. I cannot write on their behalf. I can write in their defense.

Chris Hedges

Four Kinds of Dystopia

The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:

Darren Allen

The Left's Self-Destructive Obsession with Shame

Perhaps the most redeeming aspect of my father’s ministry was his tireless work to help people heal from guilt and shame. I saw the transformative impact that his efforts had on people’s...

R.L. Stephens

Neoliberalism—The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.

George Monbiot

More and More Americans Want to Abolish ICE

Even before the Minneapolis shooting, polls showed public support for dropping Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Martin Burns

Footage From Phone of ICE Agent Who Shot and Killed Renee Good Released

New footage of ICE shooting in Minneapolis released, raising questions about officer's actions. Graphic content warning.

Brad Reed

The Hopeful Thing About Our Ugly, Painful Polarization

Look to Norway and Sweden, where cooperative, socially democratic countries emerged after a frightening period of extreme polarization and social fracturing.

George Lakey

Chomsky and Epstein: What the Evidence Actually Shows

Behind the sensational headlines and photos circulating online without context lies a more complex story—one that demands we distinguish between actual evidence of wrongdoing and...

Tim Hjersted

The Regenerative Revolution Is Now: 30 Documentaries About Regenerating Ecosystems, Local Economies, and Healthier, Joyful Lives

Regenerative living is a revolutionary philosophy rooted in reciprocity, creativity, and care.

Films For Action

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all...

Yasha Levine

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

There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.

It’s far easier to end up on the wrong end of the spectrum than you might think.

Rachel Rutter

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?

Steve Bearman

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub...

George Monbiot

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

For the majority of the past century, a battle has been waged between two dominant ideologies – capitalism and communism. Both competing economic systems focus on how best to allocate...

Chris Agnos

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

The disparity between what the average worker earns and what CEOs take home is staggering — and it makes clear that the 99% does, in fact, need a raise. But while fighting for a $15...

Tim Hjersted

From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel Use the Same Violent Playbook

Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to...

Ahmad Ibsais

When Cheering for Murder Is Disguised as Patriotism

To revel in the image of human beings being blown apart is to confess a kind of moral numbness that civilizations acquire only in their final stages of decay.

Tim Hjersted

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.

David Cain

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

Instead of fixating on a fight between capitalism and socialism, imagine innovating a future economy that transcends old binaries.

Jason Hickel and Martin Kirk

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*

You are not crazy, my friends

Julio Vincent Gambuto

The Right's Wokeness Problem

Paul Graham’s recent essay on “wokeness” is useful—not because it offers an entirely sound analysis, but because it provides a fascinating case study in ideological blind spots.

Tim Hjersted

The White Man in That Photo

Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer...

Riccardo Gazzaniga

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and...

George Lakey

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival...

Russell Means

Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World

In a world marked by division, inequality, and growing despair, navigating daily life with integrity and purpose can feel overwhelming. Yet, even amid this brokenness, profound change is...

Tim Hjersted

10 Crucial Things You Can Do to Take on Trump in 2026

Trump, his sycophants, and the billionaires behind him know that with the coming midterm elections, 2026 could be their last unconstrained chance to suppress democracy and siphon off...

Robert Reich

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

This is the crash-course in 'what the hell is going on here' that we surely all wish we got from our education growing up but probably never did.

Films For Action

How We Got Here: 17 Documentaries That Explain Why the Mass Media Is the Crisis

The crisis of mass media lies at the heart of every other crisis we face today. Economic inequality, a ravaged planet, endless wars—none of these can be addressed if the public is...

Films For Action

The Crisis Is Real, but the Story Is Wrong: What Scott Galloway Misses About Men, Power, and Society

Galloway describes real symptoms facing young men, but his analysis leaves the political economy that produced those symptoms out of view. To understand the crisis, we have to step...

Tim Hjersted

What Is Libertarian Socialism?

Libertarian socialism is a political tradition that argues real freedom requires both personal liberty and democratic control over the economic institutions that shape our lives.

Tim Hjersted

65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

We are living in a time of profound transition, a moment when humanity must choose its path forward. The old systems—of empire, domination, and exploitation—are showing signs of...

Tim Hjersted

We Are Made for These Times: A Letter to a Young Activist During Troubled Times

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in...

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

This is easily the best comic strip ever made.

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

John Pilger: Only When We See the War Criminals In Our Midst Will the Endless Violence Begin to End

In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama wages...

John Pilger

Anti-ICE Resistance Sprang Up Across Red States in 2025

In Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, and beyond, grassroots resistance to ICE is growing.

Sonali Kolhatkar

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of...

Tim Hjersted

'Reign of Terror': ICE Builds Appalling Record of Killings, Beatings, Kidnappings, and More

"We just saw them murder an American citizen in cold blood, in the street," said US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "This is an agency that must be reined in."

Jake Johnson

Understanding Patriarchy

Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men...

bell hooks

Playbook for Defeating the 1% - the Swedish and Norwegian Model

This playbook is inspired by the insights of George Lakey and the transformative movements of Norway and Sweden in the early 20th century. These nations, once marked by extreme poverty...

Films For Action

How Corporate Democrats Made Trump Possible: A 10-Year Timeline

Saving the country from autocracy requires recognizing—and then overcoming—the chokehold that Democratic leaders have on the party.

Norman Solomon

Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure

Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical...

Sara Burrows

50+ Films About Women That Will Inspire You, Anger You, and Make You Want to Change the World

Here are 50 documentaries, short films and other videos that focus on women's issues, perspectives and struggles. We're hoping to expand this list over time so feel free to share links...

Films For Action

A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality

"Intersectionality calls for the recognition of multiple forms of oppression and exploitation and the need for solidarity. These are ideas that should be supported by everybody. So where...

Sandew Hira

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

There are over 6,000 videos on Films For Action, hand-curated for their potential to inspire action and raise awareness on just about every topic related to making the world a better place.

Films For Action

The Iroquois Confederacy

In 1987, the United States Senate passed a resolution which acknowledged the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution...

Ojibwa

You Know How to Whistle, Don't You?

Resistance to ICE and the Trump regime gets creative…drawing on protest traditions from around the world, and starting some new ones.

Jennifer Thomas

Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is

Socialism is one of the most vilified and misunderstood ideas in modern political discourse. The number one reason for this hatred? Most people have no idea what socialism actually is.

Tim Hjersted

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren't Called 'Hitler'

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Liam O'Ceallaigh

Depression-Busting Exercise Tips for People Too Depressed to Exercise

If you’ve struggled with depression at any point in your life, you’ve probably heard some well-meaning soul say “just try to get some exercise, it’s good for your mood!” Annoyingly...

Sarah Kurchak

Modern Schools Stole Our Common Sense—Here's How We Take It Back

Long before we could vote, we learned to sit still, follow directions, and ignore the world outside the classroom window. This slowly dimmed the wild common sense we needed to fight...

Carol Black

The Premises of Endgame

These premises appear at the beginning of Endgame, Derrick Jensen's seminal critique of civilization.

Derrick Jensen

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and...

Daniel Quinn

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