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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
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra 70 min
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)
RE-LEARNING HOPE is the story of Unitierra, an autonomous university in Oaxaca, Mexico that is immersed in, and has emerged from, the social and indigenous movements of the region. The...
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.
Louis Theroux
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.
Adam Curtis
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
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
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 Devil Ark Story Part 1 28 min
The Devil Ark Story Part 1
The story of the building of Devil Ark, a breeding sanctuary set up by the Australian Reptile Park to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. Shown on CH 9 6/9/2013
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
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?
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
Power: One River, Two Nations 77 min
Power: One River, Two Nations (1996)
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant...
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...
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
Guns in America - A Six Part Series 89 min
Guns in America - A Six Part Series (2017)
AJ+'s documentary series Guns in America explores how fear and power define Americans' relationship with guns. The six-part series examines the controversy over assault rifles, guns in...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...
Marianne Osório
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...
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist 120 min
Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (2015)
What if telling a story that gives hope by pointing out solutions was the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that shake our world?
Mélanie Laurent
Apology Of An Economic Hitman 90 min
Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)
John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of “economic hit men”, who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and...
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
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...
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...
Gather 74 min
Gather (2020)
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the...
Sanjay Rawal
Unseen Tears 29 min
Unseen Tears (2009)
Native American families in Western New York continue to feel the impact of the Thomas Indian School and the Mohawk Institute. Survivors speak of traumatic separation from their...
Ron Douglas
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 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
Fed Up 95 min
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food...
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 Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity 49 min
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
A feature doc with George Monbiot, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Robin Dunbar that explores the current crisis in social connection, juxtaposed with its fascinating historical origins...
Adrian Tanner
The Need to GROW 96 min
The Need to GROW (2019)
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8 year old girl...
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters 115 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters (2011)
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed...
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.
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...
The Journey From Syria 71 min
The Journey From Syria (2016)
Reporter Matthew Cassel spent a year documenting the journey of Syrian jeweler Aboud Shalhoub as he travels from Turkey to Greece, and through Eastern Europe to the Netherlands to be...
Under Poisoned Skies: Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields 52 min
Under Poisoned Skies: Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields (2024)
From the front line of climate change in Iraq, BBC News Arabic unmasks an invisible killer: air pollution, investigating a hidden epidemic of cancer and the deadly impact of oil...
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity 75 min
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the...
Lucy Martens
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism 47 min
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked...
Sut Jhally
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood 66 min
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food to...
Adriana Barbaro
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 157 min
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist...
Slavery by Another Name 85 min
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation...
The Settlers 111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
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
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 War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States 104 min
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)
"In a time when many are questioning institutional integrity across society, seeking accurate and relevant information to help make sense of our supposedly post-truth era, Noble shines a...
Scott Noble
Sand Wars 74 min
Sand Wars (2013) ($8)
By the end of the 21st century, beaches will be a thing of the past. That is the alarming forecast of a growing number of scientists and environmental NGOs. Sand has become a vital...
Denis Delestrac
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America 40 min
Living for 32: Virginia Tech, Gun Shows & Mass Shootings in America (2010)
To help provide context for America's mass shooting crisis, Video Project is offering the Sundance-award winning documentary Living for 32 for free online streaming (get a classroom or...
Maria Cuomo Cole
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story 101 min
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.” - Polly Higgins
Pete Sequoia
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? 84 min
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
From Executive Producer Mark Ruffalo comes the world’s first documentary film on the Rights of Nature Movement, a “Paradigm Shifting” story where the 'Rights of Nature' has...
Joshua B. Pribanic
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
The Age of Stupid 90 min
The Age of Stupid (2009) ($5)
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays an old man living in the devastated world of 2055 in this documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning...
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.
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man 63 min
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)
The Canary Effect takes an in depth look at the devastating effect that US policies have had on the indigenous people of America.
Robin Davey
A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order 212 min
A Very Heavy Agenda Part 3: Maintaining the World Order (2016) ($3)
“Without doubt it is the best documentary I have watched – on any subject – in years” – Tom Secker [spyculture.com]
How Algorithms Created Fascism in America 405 min
How Algorithms Created Fascism in America (2026)
When we let algorithms and politicians decide what's true, the internet isn't the biggest casualty.... our humanity is.
Veritas
Hackers for Freedom 55 min
Hackers for Freedom (2019)
"Hackers for Freedom", this 55-minute long documentary takes us to meet with those who, from India to the United States via Europe, are experimenting with the emancipation tools of "free...
Philippe Borrel
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...
Seeds of Justice - In The Hands of Farmers 36 min
Seeds of Justice - In The Hands of Farmers (2015)
Seeds of Justice follows Ethiopian plant geneticist Dr Melaku Worede’s inspirational work to re-valorise farmers’ knowledge and protect their position as guardians of seed diversity...
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...
How TV Ruined Your Life 120 min
How TV Ruined Your Life (2011)
Comedy series in which Charlie Brooker uses a mix of sketches and jaw-dropping archive footage to explore the gulf between real life and television.
Imprint 75 min
Imprint (2023)
What can one person do? What can a group of people do? What do we want to leave behind? In the film "Imprint" we visit 13 projects in 13 different places where committed groups work for...
Mattias Olsson
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...
Chasing Coral 89 min
Chasing Coral (2017)
Chasing Coral taps into the collective will and wisdom of an ad man, a self-proclaimed coral nerd, top-notch camera designers, and renowned marine biologists as they invent the first...
Jeff Orlowski
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity 79 min
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
A Simpler Way follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group built tiny...
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.
Affluenza 56 min
Affluenza (1997)
AFFLUENZA diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the...
John de Graaf
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective 92 min
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What...
Costa Boutsikaris
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community 87 min
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Within Reach explores one couple's pedal-powered search for a place to call home. Mandy and Ryan gave up their jobs, cars, and traditional houses to 'bike-pack' 6500 miles around the USA...
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
Requiem For The American Dream 73 min
Requiem For The American Dream (2015)
In his final long-form documentary interview - filmed over four years - Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality...
Peter Hutchison
Beware Of Images 160 min
Beware Of Images (2016)
From cave paintings to virtual reality, Beware of Images embarks on a fascinating journey through the history of mediated representation. This is the history of media you will never find...
Sergio Toporek
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...
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours 110 min
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours (2019)
The Commons is a documentary film about communities re-asserting sustainable futures using consensus, equity and shared resources – ancient Commons principles.
Kevin Hansen
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...
Land Rush 58 min
Land Rush (2012)
In 2008, the world’s food system began to fall apart. However, threatened with hunger, rich countries have started buying up and leasing fertile tracts of the developing world.
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution 51 min
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Planet Local shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
The Israeli Lobby 50 min
The Israeli Lobby (2007)
Is the pro-Israel lobby so strong, financially and politically, that the U.S. relationship with Israel is taboo and therefore unmentionable? And what happens to those who dare expose the...
The Cross of the Moment 84 min
The Cross of the Moment (2015)
Fermi's Paradox, climate change, capitalism, and collapse are among the subjects discussed in this feature length documentary on the environmental crisis. Interviewees include Bill...
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...
Sut Jhally
Zeitgeist: Addendum 123 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in...
The Riot Report 114 min
The Riot Report (2024)
When Black neighborhoods in scores of cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders —...
Michelle Ferrari
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’.
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution 26 min
Permaculture: A Quiet Revolution (2008)
As corporate media fails to provide accurate news of the world's dire environmental predicament, the Earth sends a clear message in the form of record-breaking natural disasters, famine...
Vanessa Schulz
Rachel Carson 115 min
Rachel Carson (2017)
When Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed...
Michelle Ferrari
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...
After Winter, Spring 74 min
After Winter, Spring (2015) ($4)
Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the...
Judith Lit
No End in Sight 102 min
No End in Sight (2007)
A staggering portrait of arrogance and incompetence, the documentary No End in Sight avoids the question of why the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, choosing instead to focus on the war's...
Tashi And The Monk 40 min
Tashi And The Monk (2014)
On a remote mountaintop of the Himalayas sits Jhamtse Gatsal (Tibetan for “The Garden of Love and Compassion”), a special school and home for 85 abandoned and neglected...
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism 50 min
Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism," reveals how the biggest tech companies deal...
The Globalisation Tapes 70 min
The Globalisation Tapes (2003)
If we are united in our struggle against worker oppression, united in our search for truth amidst lies, united for a truly participatory democratic economic system, the possibilities are...
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...
Praying for Armageddon 94 min
Praying for Armageddon (2024)
Praying for Armageddon goes inside the evangelical Christian movement to explore its influence on US democracy and foreign policy. Preparing for the "end times", a grassroots pastor...
Tonje Hessen Schei
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life 60 min
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and...
Stephen R. Kellert
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...
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction 80 min
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
All over the world species are becoming extinct at an astonishing rate, from 1000 to 10,000 times faster than normal. The loss of biodiversity has become so severe that scientists are...
Monte Thompson
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