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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.
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
A New Economy: Inside the Revolution You’re Not Hearing About 85 min
A New Economy: Inside the Revolution You’re Not Hearing About (2016)
What if working together for the good of all was the most common business model? Watch as several organizations strive towards building a more cooperative future. By putting humanity...
Trevor Meier
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.
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...
In God We Trust? 126 min
In God We Trust? (2012)
From the author: When I was given a DVD of a protest rally in the small town of King, near where I live, I was shocked by the sight of five thousand people waving Christian Flags and...
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
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...
9/11: Press for Truth 84 min
9/11: Press for Truth (2006)
9/11: Press for Truth follows three of the Jersey Girls (widows of individuals killed in the attacks) as well as other family members in their search for answers about what really...
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
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America 100 min
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America (2016)
Accidental Courtesy follows Daryl Davis, a Black musician who has spent decades engaging in courageous conversations with members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups...
Matthew Ornstein
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
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...
Bringing Down A Dictator 55 min
Bringing Down A Dictator (2011)
In the year 2000, in a war barely noticed outside Yugoslavia, the indicted war criminal Slobodan Milosevic fought to hold power. He controlled a battle-hardened army, a tough police...
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...
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
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine 65 min
Soldiers of the Vine: Healing War Trauma with Plant Medicine (2017)
In May of 2016, six American Veterans with PTSD went to the Amazon in search of healing. What they found was another war...for the soul of humanity.
What Lies Upstream 85 min
What Lies Upstream (2017)
In this scandalous political thriller, the filmmaker behind TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY takes his investigatory grit to West Virginia where he looks into a mysterious chemical spill...
Cullen Hoback
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
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 1985 MOVE Massacre: When Cops Bombed Philadelphia 57 min
The 1985 MOVE Massacre: When Cops Bombed Philadelphia (2019)
In 1985, Philadelphia police bombed a residential building to end a standoff with Black militant group MOVE, setting a new standard for institutionalized violence and the dehumanization...
Sean Slater
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.
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
The Crisis of Civilization 87 min
The Crisis of Civilization (2011)
The Crisis of Civilization investigates how global crises like ecological disasters, financial meltdowns, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism, and food shortages are converging symptoms of...
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization 90 min
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
70 years ago Costa Rica abolished its army and committed itself to fostering a peaceful society. It has been reaping the benefits ever since.
Boycott 73 min
Boycott (2021)
As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their...
Julia Bacha
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 Real Dirt on Farmer John 82 min
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer.
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.
BlackRock Is Terrifying 61 min
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
This is not another mainstream video about BlackRock.By now, people know the public narrative:
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.
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 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
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 Settlers 111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
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
Singapore: Biophilic City 44 min
Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)
A whirlwind week in Singapore exploring the amazing story of how Singapore came to be one of the most 'biophilic' cities of the world, on the cutting edge of ecocity design and...
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
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
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?
PBS Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma 110 min
PBS Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma (2018)
A major investigation of Facebook’s impact on privacy and democracy around the world.
PBS Frontline
Climate Extremes 53 min
Climate Extremes (204)
Are we at risk of crossing planetary tipping points? Are we at risk of pushing the planet toward a trajectory where it could unstoppably drift away from a state that can support life as...
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 Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil 52 min
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells...
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...
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 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 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
HOME 93 min
HOME (2009)
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the...
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
Private Violence 77 min
Private Violence (2014)
Private Violence explores a simple, but deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. Every day in the U.S., at least four...
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 Next Industrial Revolution 54 min
The Next Industrial Revolution (2002)
Chris Bedford and Shelley Morhaim made this award winning 56 minute long film on the sustainability revolution in materials and manufacturing. "The Next Industrial Revolution" tells the...
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny 26 min
Vietnam: The Quiet Mutiny (1970)
In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military...
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? 177 min
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares) that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of...
Adam Curtis
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...
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis 52 min
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis (2021)
Skinhead culture started as multi-cultural, working-class, and anti-racist, but soon was co-opted by white supremacy. To fight back against Nazis, the Baldies were formed in Minneapolis...
David Roth
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
White Right: Meeting The Enemy 55 min
White Right: Meeting The Enemy (2017)
In this Emmy-winning documentary, acclaimed Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan meets U.S. neo-Nazis and white nationalists including Richard Spencer face to face and attends the now-infamous...
Deeyah Khan
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...
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence 71 min
Behind the Rage: America's Domestic Violence (2022)
In America, most female homicide victims are killed by their current or former partner, and one in four women experiences domestic violence or abuse. In this documentary, I ask a simple...
Deeyah Khan
Lessons Of Darkness 54 min
Lessons Of Darkness (1992)
Straddling a line between documentary and science fiction, Werner Herzog's Lektionen in Finsternis is an epic visual poem set in the burning oil fields of Kuwait following the 1990-1991...
Werner Herzog
Seeing Beautiful 60 min
Seeing Beautiful (2024)
A deeply personal and reflective cross-cultural journey unpacking the quiet yet powerful forces shaping women’s relationship with beauty. Through authentic, vulnerable sharing and...
Anjula Ram
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward 162 min
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward is a feature-length documentary by Peter Joseph that argues for a global transition away from our current monetary-based economic system toward a more...
Peter Joseph
Iris Chang - Nanking Massacre by Japanese in World War II (張純如 - 南京大屠殺) 103 min
Iris Chang - Nanking Massacre by Japanese in World War II (張純如 - 南京大屠殺)
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937--1938 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and...
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...
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...
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
Metamorphosis 85 min
Metamorphosis (2018) ($4)
A poem for the planet, Metamorphosis captures the true scale of the global environmental crisis. Forest fires consume communities, species vanish, and entire ecosystems collapse. But...
Nova Ami
The Resurrection of Victor Jara 98 min
The Resurrection of Victor Jara (2015) ($5)
This feature length film explores the legacy and cultural resurgence of South American singer-songwriter and activist Victor Jara, who was brutally killed in 1973 following a military...
John Travers
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
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
Symphony of the Soil 60 min
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
Drawing from ancient knowledge and cutting edge science, Symphony of the Soil is an artistic exploration of the miraculous substance soil. By understanding the elaborate relationships...
No Impact Man 91 min
No Impact Man (2009) ($4)
Colin Beavan decides to completely eliminate his personal impact on the environment for the next year. It means eating vegetarian, buying only local food, and turning off the...
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