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Louis Theroux: The Settlers 62 min
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
Fourteen years after his first visit and 2011 film The Ultra Zionists, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the West Bank.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 174 min
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Adam Curtis directs this 3-part series about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built.
Resistance 101 50 min
Resistance 101 (2026)
With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These...
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Tapped 75 min
Tapped (2009)
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an...
How China Actually Works 85 min
How China Actually Works (2026)
"China defies easy labels. It's not the communist bogeyman of Cold War propaganda, nor the socialist workers' paradise some on the left imagine — and this documentary digs into why both...
Tony Chamas
The Secrets of Sugar 42 min
The Secrets of Sugar (2013)
We've heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that...
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...
Earthlings 95 min
Earthlings (2005)
EARTHLINGS is a feature-length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our...
I Am Fishead 78 min
I Am Fishead (2011)
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR WORLD? THIS IS A FILM FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW."
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe 29 min
Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)
COMMUNITIES OF HOPE is a film born from a quest to discover a regenerative culture.
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time 165 min
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
InterReflections is an experimental, mixed genre narrative feature film by Peter Joseph, adapted from his book The New Human Rights Movement. The ambitious, nearly 3 hour work challenges...
Peter Joseph
Hope in a Changing Climate 29 min
Hope in a Changing Climate (2009)
Hope in a Changing Climate optimistically reframes the debate on global warming. Illustrating that large, decimated eco-systems can be restored, the BBC World documentary reveals success...
Stepping Into The Fire 84 min
Stepping Into The Fire (2011)
'STEPPING INTO THE FIRE' is a feature length documentary that tells the story of a seemingly successful man living an unfulfilling life and his journey towards truth and happiness.What...
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces 70 min
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT...
Melissa Young
Hearts and Minds 112 min
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds confronts with stark frankness the United States' involvement in Vietnam and the development of its foreign policy in the 1970s. Using...
Peter Davis
A Quest For Meaning 87 min
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
A Quest for Meaning is an inspiring journey that connects personal growth and social change. It tells the story of two friends, Marc and Nathanael, who leave everything behind to go...
Kamea Meah Films
The Great Disconnect 60 min
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are...
Tamer Soliman
Saving Our Ecovillage 29 min
Saving Our Ecovillage (2020)
Off-grid with their own food, animals, water, power and waste disposal, a Welsh eco-community try to come up with a plan to save their homes and their future.
Prime Farmland: The Fight To Stop a Mega Data Center In New Carlisle, Indiana 39 min
Prime Farmland: The Fight To Stop a Mega Data Center In New Carlisle, Indiana (2020)
Farmers and activists fight together to stop Data Centers and the mega-sized 7,200 acre Indiana Enterprise Center in New Carlisle, Indiana.
Sybil Drew
Finding the Money 96 min
Finding the Money (2023)
"A masterpiece! By far the most inspiring economics film I have ever seen. This film is a gift to humanity. Everyone should watch it." - Prof. Jason HickelAn intrepid group of economists...
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry 58 min
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)
Official reports state that a worker falls victim to toxic chemical poisoning in the manufacturing process every five hours, though the actual toll is suspected to be much higher...
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson 59 min
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (2023)
Iceland has seen a dramatic transformation in recent decades, from being one of the poorest nations in the Western world, to a leader in many economic indices. What accounts for...
David Wallerstein
Our Consumer Society 85 min
Our Consumer Society (2022)
This documentary explores our consumer society, looking at the history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of what consumerism really means.
The War on Kids 95 min
The War on Kids (2010)
Blame for problems with schooling in America is often assigned to insufficient funding or the inherent failings of today's kids. In rare cases, parents, teachers, and administrators are...
Cevin Solig
Who is Peter Joseph? 49 min
Who is Peter Joseph?
A Mini-Doc by Charles Robinson. "In late 2009 I was able to interview Peter Joseph, the creator of "Zeitgeist: The Movie" and "Zeitgeist: Addendum"; Founder of The Zeitgeist Movement, in...
The Soldier’s Heart: Returning From the Iraq War With PTSD 56 min
The Soldier’s Heart: Returning From the Iraq War With PTSD (2005)
The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, how to survive. But who teaches them how to live with themselves? Examining an underreported story of the Iraq war: the...
Wasted Waste 84 min
Wasted Waste (2018)
Watch on Vimeo | 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...
The Corporation 145 min
The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the...
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism 76 min
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political...
Peter Hutchison
The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary 89 min
The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)
The Art of Effortless Living is a documentary based on the traditional philosophy and essential teaching of Taoism.
Southern Discomfort 79 min
Southern Discomfort (2017)
Southern Discomfort is a documentary film that examines white southerners' love affair with the Confederacy. It also examines the role that state governments in the south play in...
Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Dangerous Liaison 37 min
Hollywood and the Pentagon: A Dangerous Liaison (2003)
Somewhere in Texas, one of the most famous episodes of the Iraq war; the heroic rescue of U.S. Private Jessica Lynch was turned into a scene for a made-for-TV movie. The movie was...
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong 52 min
Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)
Around one billion people struggle with stress-related illness globally - and that figure is rising. What protects those with good mental health? Is their resilience innate? Or is the...
Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream 60 min
Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011)
Wake up to your own role in creating a new future. This empowering new perspective of the current state of our planet features top scientific, indigenous and activist minds from around...
Pachamama Alliance
HyperNormalisation 161 min
HyperNormalisation (2016)
We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis...
Adam Curtis
The Monopoly On Violence 106 min
The Monopoly On Violence (2020)
This is a story of the violence and coercion that underlies our modern societies. Most of the time, our interactions are peaceful and consensual, but there is a large notable exception...
Chris Cofer
Water is Love 61 min
Water is Love (2024)
What if, in the midst of global uncertainty and ecological distress, we chose to focus our attention on the ways people come together—across cultures and continents—to care for life’s...
Ludwig Schramm
The Century of the Self 230 min
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose...
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...
Amy Scott
A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan 44 min
A World Worth Imagining - Jacque Fresco: The Man with the Plan (2019)
Produced by S.O.U.L. Documentary, this is a film on the life’s work of late, legendary visionary Jacque Fresco, founder of The Venus Project. The movie features never before seen...
Tribes on the Edge 67 min
Tribes on the Edge (2021) ($5)
Tribes on the Edge follows Céline Cousteau as she returns to the Brazilian Amazon after a fateful email from Beto of the Marúbo tribe beckons her back to help tell his people’s story.
The Brainwashing of My Dad 90 min
The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)
What happened to Dad? As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers...
Jen Senko
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices 98 min
Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)
Brave New Films exposes Wal-Mart's unscrupulous business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Walmart executives.
Schooling the World 66 min
Schooling the World (2010)
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
Carol Black
Money Puzzles 130 min
Money Puzzles (2016)
Money Puzzles is a documentary film about money and debt and the widespread misunderstanding about what they are and how they function to be found in the media, everyday life and even...
"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media 55 min
"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)
David Fuller: “A Glitch in the Matrix" is about the relationship between truth and reality, the ideological blind spots of the mainstream media and the existential threat of polarisation...
Modulations 73 min
Modulations (1998)
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds.
Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields 61 min
Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields
Masanobu Fukuoka is a farmer/philosopher who lives on the Island of Shikoku, in southern Japan. His farming technique requires no machines, no chemicals and very little weeding. He does...
The Warning 55 min
The Warning (2009)
In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the derivatives dangers that would cause an economic meltdown nearly a decade later in the housing market. ...
Michael Kirk
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 780 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes you on an awe-inspiring cosmic journey to the edge of the Universe and back aboard the spaceship of the imagination.
David Oyster
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis 3000 min
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (2019)
Do you ever feel like we're swimming in an ocean of bullshit? This ground-breaking and viral 50-part series from John Vervaeke seeks to understand why this is so, and answer the...
Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners 118 min
Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners (2015)
When slavery was abolished in Britain, its government made the extraordinary choice of compensating slave-owners for their loss of ‘property’. Historian David Olusoga uncovers the untold...
Ben Crichton
The Stars at Night 54 min
The Stars at Night (2023)
The Stars at Night is a journey of young filmmakers, experts, artists and writers to the darkest skies around the world in a quest to re-discover the connection human storytelling has...
Elizabeth Buckley
Gasland 105 min
Gasland (2010)
The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas” just beneath us. But is fracking safe?
Josh Fox
The Politics Of Hate: The Far Right In The US And Europe 68 min
The Politics Of Hate: The Far Right In The US And Europe (2017)
Christian Picciolini, a former leader of the American white-supremacist skinhead movement, explores how so many young people are recruited into violent extremist ideologies and how he...
Michael Perlman
Examined Life 85 min
Examined Life (2008)
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most...
Astra Taylor
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