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7 min
Your Reality Narrows After Trauma — Here’s How To Expand It
What if the way you see the world is shaped by trauma you haven’t fully processed?
Big Think
14 min
What Makes Trump & MAGA So Cruel? A Psychiatrist Explains
Have you ever wondered why Trump and MAGA seem so cruel to many people? In this video, psychiatrist Dr Russell Razzaque explains the psychological factors at play. We'll dive into the...
Dr Russell Razzaque
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...
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"...
2 min
Terence McKenna: Reclaim Your Mind
Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 -- April 3, 2000) was a modern philosopher, whose main interest was psychedelics and their role in society and existence beyond the physical body"
Olivier Ferland
23 min
Why Trump's China Trip Was a Total FAILURE
Donald Trump said his visit to China was a success, but he failed to pressure Beijing to make any significant concessions. Ben Norton fact-checks the claims of the White House, showing...
Geopolitical Economy Report
15 min
Radical Honesty – What If We All Told The Truth?
Video essay on the ubiquity of lying, both in the stories we tell as well as in real life, and why perhaps we should try being a little more honest.
Like Stories of Old
39 min
The CIA Coup That Broke Latin America
This is the story of how an exotic berry in Jamaica built a multinational empire: the United Fruit Company, El Pulpo, The Octopus, a corporation so powerful it could make and break nations.
Cogito
3 min
The L- Curve
The income distribution of the United States is far more unequal than most people realize. In fact it is so lopsided, it is hard to represent on a graph. Still, this low-fi video does a...
David Chandler
58 min
What Are Tankies Really?
I've talked about it here and there for years, but this is my actual attempt to talk, definitively, about Tankies.
Politically Depressed
15 min
How Cities of the Future Are Embracing Nature
Cities account for 70% of energy consumption and between 40-50% of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Urban designer Alex Washburn, former Head of Urban Planning for the City of New...
Condé Nast Traveler
118 min
Charlie Kirk and the Conservative Death Cult
In this sprawling 2 hour video, F.D Signifier argues that Charlie Kirk’s career and death illustrate how modern U.S. conservatism functions as a “death cult,” using culture-war...
F.D Signifier
25 min
Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements
Elon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under the country's racist apartheid laws. Musk's family history reveals ties to apartheid and...
Democracy Now!
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.
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...
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.
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
10 min
DINNER FOR FEW (Short Film)
“Dinner For Few” is an allegorical depiction of our society. During dinner, "the system" works like a well-oiled machine. It solely feeds the select few who eventually, foolishly consume...
Nassos Vakalis
14 min
Billionaires’ Shocking Plan to Silence Working-Class Voters
50% of voters say being forced to show a passport would be a barrier to voting, according to a new poll we conducted.
More Perfect Union
54 min
A Forgotten '60s Radical Movement
An in-depth look at the New Left of the 1960's.
Ryan Chapman
23 min
Why the Far Right is Always Worse Than the Far Left
In this video, we dive deep into the complexities of extremism on both the left and right, challenging the popular "horseshoe theory" that suggests both ideologies are equally dangerous.
Know way no how
20 min
El Mencho & CJNG: How Mexico Erupted Overnight
LJ discusses the death of El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), on February 22nd, 2026, and the immediate, widespread violent retaliation across Mexico.
LJ
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?...
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...
2 min
The Story of the Chinese Farmer
"The whole process of nature is a process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad." A parable about life and nature...
Sustainable Human
3 min
Comedian Brian Dunkleman Takes On the Stigma of Socialism
There's nothing more American than Football. There's also nothing more socialist. Brian Dunkleman Takes On the Stigma of Socialism.
Fusion Comedy
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...
47 min
TYT is Dead! Long Live TYT! The Folly, Failure, and Fall of Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian
In this in-depth analysis, Pastor Ben breaks down the crisis facing progressive media through the lens of The Young Turks (TYT). Once a beacon of independent journalism, TYT has drifted...
The Benjamin Dixon Show
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
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
4 min
G20 Brisbane Summit: What's the Point of the G20 Anyway?
Why does the G20 - meeting this year in Brisbane, Australia - exist? And what's it supposed to do? The group is a forum for the governments and central bank governors from 20 major...
Guardian Explainers
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...
64 min
Abby Martin on Hillary's NeoMcCarthyism and 'Gaza Fights for Freedom,' Plus #BerniesBack
Abby Martin joins the show to discuss Hillary vs. Tulsi and her film 'Gaza Fights for Freedom, Katie recaps Bernie's rally in Queens
Rolling Stone
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
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
21 min
The Banker Ladies
Created by the Diverse Solidarity Economies Collective, The Banker Ladies tells the stories of Ginelle, Aisha, and Mabinty, three Black women in Toronto creating diverse financial...
35 min
Western Patriarchy vs. Indigenous Male Roles
Join us in this thought-provoking series as we explore the complexities of Western patriarchy and its impact on traditional Indigenous male roles.
Thosh Collins
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
32 min
This Is the REAL Reason for Trump's Visit to China
Donald Trump took a trip to China to meet President Xi Jinping. He was joined by the CEOs of a dozen top US corporations, including billionaires Elon Musk, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, Tim...
Geopolitical Economy Report
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...
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...
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
60 min
Mark Corske's Engines of Domination (2014)
OUT NOW! NEW IMPROVED 2018 DIRECTOR'S CUT VERSION: WATCH IT HERE.
6 min
Machiavelli’s Advice For Nice Guys
Nice guys too often finish last; they need to read the advice of one of the wisest and most realistic thinkers in the history of philosophy: Niccolo Machiavelli. For gifts and more from...
The School of Life
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...
8 min
No Matter What Happens: Don't Tax The Rich (An Animated Fairy Tale)
Narrated by Ed Asner, "tax the rich" is an 8 minute video about how we arrived at this moment of poorly funded public services and widening economic inequality. Things go downhill in a...
Fred Glass
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...
4 min
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic...
Sustainable Human
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
16 min
BlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don’t Know
BlackRock and other asset managers are profiting off of every aspect of your life. It's not a conspiracy — it's an open restructuring of society.
More Perfect Union
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
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
24 min
So Close to America: Undocumented Farm Workers & The Myth of The 'Free Ride'
Farmworker Realities vs Immigrant Fear Mongering in the Days of Trump and Beyond.
Peter Carrs
111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
35 min
Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
Karis Campbell
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
239 min
How to Make a Fascist (2025)
This epic four hour doumentary explores the "ingredients" that contributed to the rise of fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. It argues that fascism wasn't a simple anomaly but...
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...
27 min
Why Are UK Authorities Ignoring Honour Killings?
There are 8 to 10 thousand forced marriages in the UK every year. As authorities are accused of taking 'honour' crimes too lightly, girls who resist or refuse a marriage can face abuse...
Journeyman Pictures
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
93 min
A Narrative Strategy for the Earth Regeneration Fund
In this important webinar, we share how to create a strategy for storytelling that rapidly scales to regenerate the Earth.
Joe Brewer
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?
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...
180 min
The Power of Nightmares (2004)
The Power of Nightmares is a BBC documentary 3-part film series. The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement...
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
6 min
How 8 European Cities Turned Waste Into a Resource
The eight UrbanWINS cities are currently implementing pilot actions to prevent and manage waste. These actions are taking into account their urban metabolism data, as well as the...
icleieurope
445 min
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
Planet Local Voices is video and podcast series featuring cutting-edge thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from across the world, united by a planet local vision of...
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness)
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...
60 min
Russell Tribunal Finds Evidence Of Incitement To Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine’s Emergency Session held on 25 Sept 2014 in Brussels on Israel’s Operation Protective Edge has found evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity...
Frank Barat
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
19 min
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
What do humans who aren't consumers look like? What happens when we find ways of feeding ourselves and each other without buying or selling food?
Campfire Stories
21 min
How Israel Will Collapse
From the outside, Israel looks like an impenetrable fortress. But power and permanence are not the same thing. The settler-colony is collapsing because it's as fragile as a house of...
uncivilized
26 min
Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? A 800 Year Fight for Public Goods
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, and this weeks show marks that occasion with a discussion on the rights of the commons with author Peter...
Laura Flanders & Friends
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...
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
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.
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...
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
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...
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.
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...
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...
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
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
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...
9 min
Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience
Part 1:
Voices of a People's History of the United States
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...
86 min
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance (1982)
Ko.yaa.nis.qatsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. Crazy life. 2. Life in turmoil. 3. Life disintegrating. 4. Life out of balance. 5. A state of life that calls for another way of...
Godfry Reggio
15 min
So, Russell Brand Is Right-Wing Now?
Kyle Kulinski covers the controversy over Russell Brand being labeled "right-wing" in a semi-viral tweet calling out Joe Rogan for having a right-wing guest bias on his show in Feb 2022.
The Kyle Kulinski Show
37 min
How Liberals Monetized Trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and Identity Politics
Catherine Liu challenges performative activism, liberal elites, and the "woke" narrative.
The Institute of Art and Ideas
49 min
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
Drawing on his intimate knowledge of resistance and repression, Hedges detailed the methods we need to adopt to defeat the powerful interests, including the fossil fuel industry and the...
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
113 min
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2)
This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com
ABC News
8 min
Zohran Mamdani Literally Can’t Stop Winning
Kyle Kulinski breaks down how Zohran Mamdani balanced New York City's budget after inheriting a $12 billion deficit — and did it without gutting services or hitting working-class New...
Secular Talk
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
5 min
Dispatches From the Ruins
In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The...
Dispatches from the Ruins
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
90 min
Psychopath Night Channel 4 (2013)
Psychopath Night is a Channel 4 documentary that unravels the mystery of psychopaths, exploring how their minds work, counting down the top ten movie psychopaths and revealing familiar...
56 min
Rick Steves' Iran (2009)
Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In this one-hour, ground-breaking travel special, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...
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...
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