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Why Andrew Tate & The Red Pill Seem Irresistible to So Many Men 43 min
Why Andrew Tate & The Red Pill Seem Irresistible to So Many Men (2023)
Male loneliness has been on the rise for the last several decades. With changing gender roles and men lost on how to live up to classical ideas of masculinities, Andrew Tate and The Red...
Grass: A Marijuana History 80 min
Grass: A Marijuana History (1999) ($5)
Grass, narrated by actor/activist Woody Harrelson, takes a highly spirited and innovative look into one of America's most deeply rooted cultural myths: the evils of "pot", "cannabis"...
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.
Israelism 84 min
Israelism (2023)
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young...
Starsuckers 72 min
Starsuckers (2009) ($5)
Starsuckers is a documentary about our celebrity-obsessed media. It uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid off the corporations and individuals who...
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.
For the Lives of Others 80 min
For the Lives of Others (2025)
An observational documentary following total liberation activism in Denmark, one of the world’s best democracies, where a group of activists is met with an unfiltered police response.
Yama Rauff
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...
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...
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
PBS FRONTLINE: Spying On The Home Front 56 min
PBS FRONTLINE: Spying On The Home Front (2007)
Five years before whistleblower, Edward Snowden released information on the extensive reach of the U.S. Government's foreign and domestic spying, the filmmakers and investigators at PBS...
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
Inside Job 108 min
Inside Job (2010)
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of...
The End of Poverty 105 min
The End of Poverty (2009)
Global poverty did not just happen. It began with military conquest, slavery and colonization that resulted in the seizure of land, minerals and forced labor. Today, the problem persists...
Philippe Diaz
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 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...
Tomorrow (with Epilogue) 35 min
Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Karis Campbell
The Settlers 111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
Disturbing the Peace 86 min
Disturbing the Peace (2016) ($5)
DISTURBING THE PEACE is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to...
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World 76 min
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
INHABITANTS follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans...
Costa Boutsikaris
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA 560 min
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
Gaza Fights For Freedom 84 min
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin is a documentary about the historic nonviolent Great March Of Return protests, which occurred every week from March 2018 until December...
Abby Martin
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
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film 96 min
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film (2026)
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck...
Martin Oetting
Human 382 min
Human (2015)
What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?
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
Mark Corske's Engines of Domination 60 min
Mark Corske's Engines of Domination (2014)
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The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire 79 min
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (2018)
At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secret jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands...
Michael Oswald
What's the Economy for, Anyway? 40 min
What's the Economy for, Anyway? (2010)
Ecological economist Dave Batker questions whether GDP is an adequate measure of society's well-being and suggests workable alternatives.
John de Graaf
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone 350 min
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (2022)
An epic documentary by British director Adam Curtis illustrating in seven parts state and decline of the Soviet Union and the development in Russia 1985–1999 using material from the BBC...
Adam Curtis
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.
Earth Days 102 min
Earth Days (2009)
On April 22, 1970, more than 20 million Americans across the country participated in celebrations and demonstrations — the largest in American history — demanding political action to...
Robert Stone
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...
Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade 95 min
Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016)
Shadow World reveals the shocking realities of the global arms trade – the only business that counts its profits in billions and its losses in human lives.
The Lottery of Birth 76 min
The Lottery of Birth (2013)
Do you shape the world or does it shape you? Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make...
Joshua van Praag
Together We Grow 39 min
Together We Grow (2022)
“This beautiful film is the perfect antidote to the cynical narrative that says people are inherently selfish... This film will melt your heart. Guaranteed.” – Rob Hopkins, author...
Jordan Osmond
The Wisdom of Trauma 88 min
The Wisdom of Trauma (2021) ($8)
One in five Americans are diagnosed with mental illness in any given year. Suicide is the second most common cause of death in the US for youth aged 15-24. Depression kills over a...
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber 36 min
State of the Forest: More Than Just Timber (2008)
State of the Forest is a hard-hitting report on the condition of Indonesia’s rainforest today. Still in the production phase, the film is presented above in 8 parts. Use the playlist...
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness 94 min
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
Directed by Marc J Francis & Max Pugh, ‘Walk With Me’ is a cinematic and immersive exploration into the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Marc J Francis
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes 53 min
How to Defeat MAGA Tyranny: A Multi-Part Guide to Social Strikes (2026)
From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
OfficialZNet
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
Humano 88 min
Humano (2013)
Humano is a documentary that narrates a young man's journey to the Andes mountains, accompanied only by a camera, two hundred questions and the yearning to discover the origin of man. In...
Alan Stivelman
Muslim in Trump's America 68 min
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
In this documentary I look at what it’s like to be a Muslim in a country where many people feel you don’t belong.Since 2015, anti-Muslim hate groups, conspiracy theories and hate crimes...
Deeyah Khan
Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion 43 min
Luxury: Behind the Mirror of High-End Fashion (2019)
From coats to handbags, the demand for brand name fashion accessories is at an all-time high. Beyond the glamorous façade lies a culture that thrives on the exploitation and abuse of its...
Sicko 123 min
Sicko (2007)
The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's new movie 'SiCKO,' they go together hand in...
We Are Many 105 min
We Are Many (2020)
On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. We...
The Bibi Files 116 min
The Bibi Files (2024) ($4)
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this portrayal of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines...
Alexis Bloom
Technocalyps 180 min
Technocalyps (2006)
Technocalyps is a three-part documentary series on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.
Can't Get You Out of My Head 489 min
Can't Get You Out of My Head (2021)
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today.
Adam Curtis
The Yes Men Fix The World 86 min
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences...
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
The Economics of Happiness 65 min
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic...
Local Futures
Israel’s Reel Extremism 40 min
Israel’s Reel Extremism (2025)
Critics have called this original Zeteo documentary a ‘gut-punching’, ‘extraordinary investigation’ that you must watch to truly ‘see Israel’.
Gimme Green 27 min
Gimme Green (2007)
Lawns are undeniably an American symbol. But what do they really symbolize? Pride and prosperity? Or waste and conformity?
Isaac Brown
13TH 101 min
13TH (2016)
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians 96 min
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians (2025)
Uncovering how Israel profits from surveillance technologies using occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground.
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless 58 min
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless
In a country where people can own two or three homes, these are the stories of those who don’t have one. All three girls and their families have endured the emotional trauma of being...
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary 27 min
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)
Class Dismissed provides a critical look at how U.S. history is taught in high school, at the myths that reduce the complexity of history into simple soundbites, and the information that...
The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes 50 min
The True Cost: Who Pays the Real Price for Your Clothes (2015)
This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing...
The Superior Human? 73 min
The Superior Human? (2012)
"The Superior Human?" systematically challenges the common human belief that humans are superior to all other life forms, which is often used as an excuse for animal cruelty and the...
Samuel McAnallen
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 78 min
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism pulls back the curtain on Fox News, revealing how it built a media empire on spin, fear, and partisan propaganda. Through insider accounts...
Humans of New York: The Series 37 min
Humans of New York: The Series
From the photo blog phenomenon comes Humans of New York: The Series. Creator Brandon Stanton worked with cinematographer Michael Crommett over four years to create the series. Taken from...
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future 85 min
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own...
The Forbidden Education 145 min
The Forbidden Education (2012)
The school has been around for more than 200 years and is still considered the main form of access to education. Today, the school and education are concepts widely discussed in...
Inequality For All 90 min
Inequality For All (2013)
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and former Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the...
Jacob Kornbluth
The One Percent 80 min
The One Percent (2006)
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical...
Laughology 66 min
Laughology (2010)
Laughter... Plato Hated it. The Bible discouraged it. The school you went to probably banned it. The first ever feature documentary about the subject, Laughology is a "screamingly...
Iran (Is Not the Problem) (2008) 79 min
Iran (Is Not the Problem) (2008)
IRAN (Is Not The Problem) is a feature length documentary film responding to the failure of the American mass media to provide the public with relevant and accurate information about the...
Paris Is Burning 76 min
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Paris Is Burning is a 1990 documentary film directed by Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American...
With God on Our Side 81 min
With God on Our Side (2010)
With God On Our Side takes a look at the theology of Christian Zionism, which teaches that because the Jews are God’s chosen people, they have a divine right to the land of Israel...
Fell in Love With Fire 65 min
Fell in Love With Fire (2024)
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by...
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations 360 min
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
"Scott Noble may have outdone himself with Counter Intelligence. The Psywar filmmaker amassed a tour de force of power elite and deep state scholars weighing in and synthesizing decades...
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series 146 min
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the video series for you.
Carnage 65 min
Carnage (2017)
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what...
Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists 58 min
Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)
One grandmother, one rabbi, one anarchist and one ex-soldier – four Israelis trying to put an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
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
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest 100 min
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Tawai is a word the nomadic hunter-gatherers of Borneo use to describe the connection they feel to their forest home. In this dreamy, philosophical and sociological look at life, Bruce...
Big Sugar 90 min
Big Sugar (2005)
From its early days with ties to slavery, to modern times with its political ties, "Big Sugar" explores the dark history and modern power of the world’s reigning sugar cartels.
Brian McKenna
The Future of Food 89 min
The Future of Food (2004)
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.
Deborah Koons
Democratic Schools: A Film About The Desire To Learn 33 min
Democratic Schools: A Film About The Desire To Learn (2006)
At democratic schools pupils themselves can decide, what and how they want to learn. There are no curricula, no marks and examinations are voluntary. Pupils and teachers have the same...
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution 150 min
Forward Ever: The Killing of a Revolution (2024)
The invasion of Grenada by US forces in 1983 echoed around the world and put an end to a unique experiment in Caribbean politics. What were the circumstances that led to this...
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