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Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face Collapse | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson 108 min
Ex-Oil Engineer Turned Climate Whistleblower: We Face Collapse | Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
The summer of 2026 will go down in history books as the hottest, driest and most deadly set of heatwaves Britain has ever experienced. This weather isn’t normal – but it is predictable...
Novara Media
He Was a Blackwater Mercenary. Here’s Why He’s Worried About the Board of Peace 16 min
He Was a Blackwater Mercenary. Here’s Why He’s Worried About the Board of Peace
Jared Kushner has a scheme to profit off world peace — and Gaza is the testing ground.
More Perfect Union
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
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month 32 min
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month
Xi Jinping pulled off something no one thought was possible.
Max Fisher
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
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram 84 min
The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram (2025)
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate how an online network known as the Terrorgram Collective grew and operated and what its rise and fall tell us about the evolution of far-right...
Thomas Jennings
The Best Media Covering War in the MidEast 36 min
The Best Media Covering War in the MidEast
I share what are, in my opinion, the best media organizations covering the US/Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon, as well as the regional conflicts that are erupting as a result. I'm so not...
Politically Depressed
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
Thom Hartmann: A Different Perspective on BLM & Bernie Sanders 3 min
Thom Hartmann: A Different Perspective on BLM & Bernie Sanders
Thom Hartmann says white people need to understand black people have suffered 400 years of genocide and the murders continue today. This is why members of the Black Lives Matter movement...
Thom Hartmann Program
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
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?
What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism? 14 min
What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism?
It's a common misconception that socialists want to...ahem...*bonk* the rich. So what do we really want to do? Come learn about how socialist societies treat those with wealth and power!
Second Thought
Was Biden Evil? 43 min
Was Biden Evil?
There's a narrative that took hold during the Gaza assault — that the Biden administration was working behind the scenes to restrain Israel, that diplomacy was happening, that American...
GDF
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil 35 min
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil
Billionaires can't exist without exploitation, so here's why that makes ALL billionaires are inherently evil... along with plenty of other things.
Ben Durham
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...
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.
This New Startup Can Query Anywhere You've Been... 6 min
This New Startup Can Query Anywhere You've Been...
How Flock Safety turned cheap edge ML cameras into a warrantless tracking network and the open source project trying to stop them.
Fireship
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
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
A Brief History of The 40 Hour Work Week 8 min
A Brief History of The 40 Hour Work Week
Have you ever wondered why the 40 hour work week is considered a standard working week for many? At one point, the US became very close to enacting a 30 hour work week. This video looks...
Prosocial Progress Foundation
Engaging People: Stories About Citizens Revitalizing Democracy 6 min
Engaging People: Stories About Citizens Revitalizing Democracy
Engaging People is a web series of short documentaries about people who are engaged and actively making change in their communities. They serve as models of service, volunteerism and...
Lori H. Ersolmaz
The Wealth Tax Is Hiding the Real Crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau 47 min
The Wealth Tax Is Hiding the Real Crisis - Yanis Varoufakis & Wolfgang Munchau
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk dominant economic orthodoxies surrounding wealth taxes as a quick-fix silver bullet for inequality...
UnHerd
Uganda Rising 70 min
Uganda Rising (2006)
The scramble for Africa never ended, it was renewed, renamed and redefined by the White supremacist power structure. The exploitation of Africa, its inhabitants, animals, flora and...
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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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
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...
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
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
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 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...
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
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...
The War You Don't See 98 min
The War You Don't See (2010)
A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of...
What Is Democracy? - Terms of Engagement 7 min
What Is Democracy? - Terms of Engagement
Democracy is something we can all agree on. But what does it actually mean? James Butler looks at the many ways the word gets used politically and what it means to attempt to run a...
Novara Media
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
Wrenched 93 min
Wrenched (2014) ($4)
Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation which will carry Edward Abbey's legacy into the 21st century. The fight...
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen 17 min
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen
Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, illustrates the flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture more clearly than...
How to Overcome Capitalism | Jason Hickel on Socialism, China, and the West 108 min
How to Overcome Capitalism | Jason Hickel on Socialism, China, and the West
My guest today is Dr. Jason Hickel – professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of The Divide and Less...
Michael Mezzatesta
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...
Squatting in Rome (2015) Medialien 22 min
Squatting in Rome (2015) Medialien
The presence of numerous squats, including the biggest in Europe, a militant student scene as well as unpunished police repression make Rome one of the strongholds of radical Italian...
Of Seeking Asylum: Amal's Story 2 min
Of Seeking Asylum: Amal's Story
Stories of asylum seekers, made by asylum seekers: This animation video was created, narrated and animated in a participatory workshop.
The Queen's University Talk: Jordan Peterson on The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech 106 min
The Queen's University Talk: Jordan Peterson on The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech
Jordan Peterson: "I was invited to Queen's University March 5 to give the inaugural lecture/discussion of the Liberty Lecture series, funded by Faculty of Law alumnus, Gregory Piasetzki...
Jordan B Peterson
Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu? 27 min
Who Is Benjamin Netanyahu?
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu — and what made him the man he is today?
uncivilized
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...
Money & Life 86 min
Money & Life (2013)
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard 27 min
Claiming the Commons: Food for All on Haultain Boulevard
Rainey Hopewell's crazy idea has ended up feeding a neighborhood and creating community. She and Margot Johnston planted vegetables in the parking strip in front of their house. They...
peakmoment
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres 4 min
Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
The Government™ made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
thejuicemedia
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’.
Clean a Beach! (A Fun Reminder that Doing Something Good for the World Can Be Pretty Simple Sometimes) 3 min
Clean a Beach! (A Fun Reminder that Doing Something Good for the World Can Be Pretty Simple Sometimes)
Feel like doing something fun, cool and important? Go out and clean a beach! This is an inspirational film about cleaning a beach, with information about where all the litter comes from...
Take your shoes off
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...
"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked) 12 min
"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked)
"Socialism Always Fails" is a claim I hear frequently. More often than not, when someone deploys this quip, it's meant to end any further conversation about socialism so they don't have...
overzealots
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...
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul 4 min
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace.""Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full of hope?...
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...
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism 157 min
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)
The Russian Revolution. The Spanish Republic. The Paris Commune. The Ukrainian revolution. The Mexican Revolution. From the late 19th century until World War II, anarchists played a key...
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.
Noam Chomsky on the Harper's Letter and Cancel Culture 5 min
Noam Chomsky on the Harper's Letter and Cancel Culture
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky
Chomsky's Philosophy
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...
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
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
The Encampments 80 min
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
THE ENCAMPMENTS follows student organizers at elite universities, including the recently detained Mahmoud Khalil, as they take a historic stand against their institutions’ investments in...
The Gleaners and I (clip) 4 min
The Gleaners and I (clip)
This is the first four minutes of Agnes Varda's award-winning documentary, "The Gleaners and I" (2000). Inspired by Realist painter Jean-François Millet's famous painting "The Gleaners...
CinemAmbiente
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
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
This Is The World As It Is 5 min
This Is The World As It Is
This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is.
The Cult of MAGA 33 min
The Cult of MAGA
This sharp, data-driven analysis traces the pipeline from mainstream conservative media to domestic extremism — and the answer is more direct than most people want to admit.
LJ
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick 75 min
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
One in five Americans, along with millions of children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs daily, and often for a lifetime. MEDICATING NORMAL follows the stories of five high-functioning...
Lynn Cunningham
Amtssprache: The Most Dangerous Language in the World 2 min
Amtssprache: The Most Dangerous Language in the World
When Adolph Eichmann was asked, "Was it hard for you to send these tens of thousands of people to their death?" Eichmann replied, "To tell you the truth, it was easy. Our language made...
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...
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...
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
Fall and Winter 102 min
Fall and Winter (2013)
This stunning film takes you on a hypnotic journey, reaching to the past to understand the origins of the catastrophic environmental transitions we now face. Over two years, director...
Matt Anderson
For The Next 7 Generations 84 min
For The Next 7 Generations (2009)
In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The...
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
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis 43 min
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
This 42-minute film is bursting with examples of exciting localization initiatives across the world.
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
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.
Israel’s War Machine 104 min
Israel’s War Machine
A thorough breakdown of the US-Israel alliance — how it works, who benefits, and why it persists despite being so clearly at odds with international law and basic human rights.
LJ
Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves 95 min
Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)
Since it mysteriously appeared on YouTube on July 18, 2012, ‘Propaganda’ has been described as ‘1984 meets The Blair Witch Project’, ‘A mouthful of scary porridge’, and ‘Even better than...
The Black Power MixTape 1967-1975 90 min
The Black Power MixTape 1967-1975 (2011)
Swedish journalists came to the United States to document the anti-war and Black Power movements of the late 60s and early 70s. The Black Power Mixtape combines music, original 16mm...
Bitter Lake 136 min
Bitter Lake (2015)
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new...
The Forgotten Hero of My Lai | Hugh Thompson Jr. 5 min
The Forgotten Hero of My Lai | Hugh Thompson Jr.
On March 16. 1968 American troops murdered over 500 innocent women, old men, and children in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. But it could have been much worse if not for one very brave...
Matt Orfalea
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound. 31 min
This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.
If everyone watched this it could transform the world.
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death 72 min
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
This critically acclaimed look at American war propaganda exhumes five decades of remarkable archival footage to show how presidents from both parties have relied on fear-driven...
Loretta Alper
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists 59 min
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political...
Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer 5 min
Notes of a Native Son: the World According to James Baldwin - Christina Greer
James Baldwin was an American novelist and social critic whose essays in “Notes of a Native Son” explored race, sex and class distinctions. -- In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000...
TED-Ed
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 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
The Art of Justifying Evil 44 min
The Art of Justifying Evil
The way some people answer the problem of evil can be an avenue to atrocity. - DARKMATTER2525▼
DarkMatter2525
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