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Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
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
The Triumph of Triviality
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk...
Douglas Haddow
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
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
From Nagasaki to Gaza: How We Learned to Stop Feeling
From Nagasaki to Gaza: How We Learned to Stop Feeling
Psychic numbing, organized forgetting and authoritarian culture are teaching Americans to witness mass suffering without demanding justice.
Henry A. Giroux
Jason Arday and the Machinery of Cruelty
Jason Arday and the Machinery of Cruelty
Arday's story exposes the cruel underside of performative inclusion: institutions can turn Black achievement into symbolic capital, advertise it as evidence of their own enlightenment...
Henry A. Giroux
My Thoughts on the Plight of Labour
My Thoughts on the Plight of Labour
The country is in a very grave crisis. That’s what we should be talking about, not the internal travails of the Labour Party. The Brexiteers have no plan; they began backtracking on...
Owen Jones
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Films For Action
Can't Face the Math: On Climate Science, We're All Karl Rove on the Night of the Election
Can't Face the Math: On Climate Science, We're All Karl Rove on the Night of the Election
Throughout this long, crazy campaign, there’s been a tension simmering between empiricists like Nate Silver and Sam Wang, who cited poll data showing Obama with a small but durable lead...
David Roberts
Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong
Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong
​When military members have claimed such power and refused blind military obedience—during the Vietnam War and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—it has had a significant impact...
Nan Levinson
The Hidden History of Muhammad Ali
The Hidden History of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.
Dave Zirin
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
How to Start a Food Co-Op
How to Start a Food Co-Op
Starting a food co-op takes a lot of work. But the rewards are many. This book provides an overview of the basic steps and procedures. The manual is not an exhaustive or comprehensive...
Patricia Cumbie and Margaret J. Goldstein
Resistance Is Only Half the Equation
Resistance Is Only Half the Equation
When movements are at their most powerful, they not only withdraw cooperation from unjust systems, but build the capacity to live without them.
Barbara Peterson
Where Is the Outrage?
Where Is the Outrage?
From education to politics and culture, corporate power is narrowing the spaces where people learn to question authority, imagine alternatives and act as
Henry A. Giroux
AI Populism Could Redeem the AI Transition
AI Populism Could Redeem the AI Transition
The political vehicle for a redemptive AI transition does not exist yet, but it is the only version of this story in which ordinary people come out ahead.
Joseph Gelfer
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
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
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
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
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?
Steve Bearman
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
"Socialism" has been used to describe everything from Soviet gulags to universal healthcare. The word was always vague. That's what made it so easy to weaponize, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
Bosses don't grow on trees. They don't magically appear at your job. They aren't born into their roles. They are created. They are manufactured to fulfill arbitrary positions of power...
Colin Jenkins
We Went on Rent Strike and Won
We Went on Rent Strike and Won
My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
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
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Ben Norton
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn anJeff Neumann
The White Man in That Photo
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
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
We’re awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence...
Tom Murphy
Don Corleone Trump
Don Corleone Trump
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos.
Chris Hedges
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014
This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
Films For Action
Terence McKenna: Memes are the Key to Societal Evolution
Terence McKenna: Memes are the Key to Societal Evolution
Tao Lin
Trump the God
Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders.
Chris Hedges
Understanding Patriarchy
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
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
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
Chomsky, Epstein, and Us: Far More Is at Stake Than One Man's Legacy
A comprehensive look at the evidence tell us criticism of Chomsky is absolutely warranted. This piece attempts to model what a fair and proportionate accountability process looks like.
Tim Hjersted
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at...
John F. Schumaker
There Is Often No Clear Demarcation Between “Legal” and “Illegal” Immigration.
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
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
The Boiling Frog (Is Us): Signs of Distress from 5000 B.C.E. to Today
Systems thinkers have given us a useful metaphor for a certain kind of human behavior in the phenomenon of the boiled frog.
Daniel Quinn
11 of the Best Astronomy Photographs to Inspire Awe and Wonder
11 of the Best Astronomy Photographs to Inspire Awe and Wonder
The Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is an annual celebration of the most beautiful and spectacular visions of the cosmos by astrophotographers worldwide. In 2015...
Royal Museums Greenwich
42 Ways to Build a Liberated Society Beyond Capitalism
42 Ways to Build a Liberated Society Beyond Capitalism
It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and...
James Herod
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living
Wisdom for aspiring leaders and change-makers of every kind
Stephen Mitchell
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods
The main purpose of this book is to try to persuade revolutionaries to shift the sites of the anticapitalist struggle and to select new battlefields. I identify three strategic sites for...
James Herod
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
'Cultural Marxism': a Uniting Theory for Rightwingers Who Love to Play the Victim
What do the Australian’s columnist Nick Cater, video game hate group #Gamergate, Norwegian mass shooter
Jason Wilson
The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems
The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems
“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable.”
Courtney Martin
Prospective Congo Palm Oil Plantation Wrecking Prime Great Ape Habitat
Prospective Congo Palm Oil Plantation Wrecking Prime Great Ape Habitat
The Atama plantation may never happen, but that uncertainty hasn’t prevented investors from potentially making a profit by clearing native forests and ruining ideal gorilla and...
Jeremy Hance
6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon
6 Reasons so Many Spiritual People Have Been Fooled by Qanon
At a time when paramilitary units snatch nonviolent protesters from the streets of big American cities and when even Fox News has finally begun to apply scrutiny on the occupant of the...
Martin Winiecki
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and...
Bruce E. Levine
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
The Price of Not Knowing: Iran, Corporate Interests, and America's Cycle of Violence
​Why did the United States help topple a democratic government in Iran some 70 years ago—and how did that decision create the conditions we’re seeing today?
Sarah Van Gelder
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
Musk and Rogan's Three-Hour Echo Chamber: Unpacking the Unfounded Claims
How a marathon conversation turned into a conspiratorial manifesto—unchecked claims about Democrats, voting, and immigration, fact-checked and debunked.
Jane Prescott
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out –...
Caitlin Moran
Children of the Lie
Children of the Lie
Renowned clinical psychologist and social critic John F. Schumaker examines the growing power and influence of the lie in relation to ongoing reality erosion and various cultural trends...
John F. Schumaker
The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West
The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West
Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.
Glenn Greenwald
So What Happens When You Make a Fake North Korean Propaganda Film?
So What Happens When You Make a Fake North Korean Propaganda Film?
From consumerism to Columbus Day to celebrity culture, the film "Propaganda" (available to watch in whole online) slices open contemporary Western culture for its rewriting of history...
Bryce J. Renninger
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
Coming Home to Roost: American Militarism, War Culture, and Police Brutality
"President Kennedy never foresaw that the chickens would come home to roost so soon..." - Malcolm X, December 1, 1963 "Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love...
Colin Jenkins
The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate
The Epstein Class: They Are the Elites They Pretend to Hate
When given the opportunity to seek justice for countless women and children who were trafficked, abused, and exploited by the world’s wealthiest, most powerful people, the MAGA movement...
Sonali Kolhatkar
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
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
93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness
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
Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression
Beyond Boiling Point: Historic Iranian Protests Continue Despite Blackouts, Repression
Unverified reports suggest thousands of people may have been killed, while Trump threatens the country with military intervention.
Kamin Mohammadi
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
Shopping Isn’t a Strategy. Here's How to Make Boycotts Effective.
With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a...
Eric Blanc
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down
9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down
Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day...
David Cain
Stop Saying "Do What You Love, Love What You Do." It Devalues Actual Work.
Stop Saying "Do What You Love, Love What You Do." It Devalues Actual Work.
“Do what you love. Love what you do.”
Miya Tokumitsu
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