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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
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
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
Ursula Le Guin Speech Challenges The Inevitability of Capitalism 6 min
Ursula Le Guin Speech Challenges The Inevitability of Capitalism
Ursula K. Le Guin accepts the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and challenges the assumption that capitalism seems inescapable...
National Book
PACS 164 C Lecture 1 120 min
PACS 164 C Lecture 1
Professor Michael Nagler updates his Peace and Conflict Studies course, PACS 164 A and B, in this new series, 164-C: out of the university and into the world!
MettaCenter
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 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
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
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
Offline Is The New Luxury 47 min
Offline Is The New Luxury (2016)
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is...
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 Yes Men Fix The World 86 min
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences...
The 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...
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...
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil 51 min
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can...
Giovanni Vaz Del Bello
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...
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?
The REAL Reason Your Algorithm Sucks 17 min
The REAL Reason Your Algorithm Sucks
This Soy Pill investigates the prevalence of right-wing political propaganda on social media, showing how much of it is not organic but rather the product of organized "clipping" operations.
The Soy Pill
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights 5 min
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights
"In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident: a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established…
Michael Moore
Collapse 80 min
Collapse (2009)
Director Chris Smith (The Yes Men), provides a frightening look of the future, through the eyes of independent reporter, Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned...
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
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...
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated Like This 3 min
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated Like This
The story shared by Israel and Palestine has been told in several stunning films, but I don't think I've ever seen it told like this.
Nina Paley
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...
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...
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution 51 min
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Planet Local shows a quiet and transformative revolution emerging worldwide.
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.
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...
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
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education 68 min
Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)
Free to Learn is a 70 minute documentary that offers a “fly on the wall” perspective of the daily happenings at The Free School in Albany, New York. Like many of today’s radical and...
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot 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
Leonard Cohen - Anthem 9 min
Leonard Cohen - Anthem
The birds they sang  at the break of day  Start again  I heard them say  Don't dwell on what  has passed away  or what is yet to be.  Ah the wars they will  be fought again  The holy...
WtW280313
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
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...
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
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...
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
Spirited Away - Why Work Is Toxic 24 min
Spirited Away - Why Work Is Toxic
Hidden in the fantastic otherwordly narrative of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is an allegory about society’s toxic obsession with work. The Studio Ghibli classic was released in 2001...
The Take
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?...
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System 4 min
Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System
We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth means...
Sustainable Human
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
The Anti-Authoritarian Movement to Rehumanize Mental Health by Bruce Levine 54 min
The Anti-Authoritarian Movement to Rehumanize Mental Health by Bruce Levine
Psychiatry's four recent crushing losses of scientific credibility reported by the mainstream media, societal reasons why psychiatry persists despite its loss of credibility, and...
RecoveryandHope
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things 78 min
Minimalism: A Documentary about the Important Things (2015)
How might your life be better with less? MINIMALISM takes the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists...
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...
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama 97 min
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama (2009)
MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING features conversations that span 13 years between two formidable women whose lives and political work remain at the epicenter of the most important civil rights...
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does 60 min
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Never before in history have so many people relied on so few for the basic essentials of life.
Emergence From Within 22 min
Emergence From Within (2018)
A raw and reflective exposé of one woman’s journey, interwoven with the wisdom of others to illuminate the broader human experience. Originally from working-class Britain and moving...
Anjula Ram
Secret to Life 9 min
Secret to Life
"If you look at zero, you see nothing. When you look through it, you see everything."
Reflections of Life
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way 82 min
Establishing a Food Forest the Permaculture Way (2008)
Join Geoff Lawton on a Permaculture adventure as he demonstrates how to grow a food forest from start to finish. Over 90 minutes of quality information to get you on the right track in...
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...
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
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement 53 min
The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement (2020)
Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for...
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
Intro to Permaculture 90 min
Intro to Permaculture
This is an 18 part 90 minute intro to permaculture webinar with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture in Illinois. Bill has been teaching permaculture for 6 years. He holds 2 PDC...
Midwest Permaculture
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
After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day 2 min
After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day
Oops.
charstarleneTV
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources 39 min
The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources (2013)
Renowned energy expert Michael T. Klare provides an invaluable account of the new and increasingly dangerous competition for the world's dwindling natural resources. Arguing that the...
Media Education Foundation
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...
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...
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...
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...
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History 101 min
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History
A one hour and 40 minute overview.
LJ
Food, Inc. 2 94 min
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
In Food, Inc. 2, the sequel to the 2008 Oscar®-nominated and Emmy®-award winning documentary, Food, Inc., filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo reunite with investigative authors...
Melissa Robledo
I Watched Ben Shapiro's Zionist Action Movie 38 min
I Watched Ben Shapiro's Zionist Action Movie
In this video I review Run Hide Fight: Infidels, the 2026 Daily Wire film starring Jonathan Majors as Delta Force veteran Clay Saunders. Released September 16, 2026 on DailyWire+, Run...
Harper O'Connor
The Day of the Dollar 50 min
The Day of the Dollar
Do we live on a bubble? Is it possible for the heavily indebted American economy to collapse and take all of us down in a free fall with it? Have the days of the dollar been counted? Is...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Navajo Nation USA 82 min
Navajo Nation USA (2023)
In the Navajo Nation, life can be beautiful, but dangerous. From 1944 to 1986, 30 million tons of uranium was extracted, leaving a legacy of cancer-causing uranium in 524 abandoned mines.
Deren Abram
21 Years Living Off-Grid on a Remote Island in a Self-Built Cabin & Homestead 31 min
21 Years Living Off-Grid on a Remote Island in a Self-Built Cabin & Homestead
Mark Young has been living a self-sufficient lifestyle on a remote off-grid island in British Columbia for the past 21 years. He has built 9 experimental buildings on his 20-acre...
Exploring Alternatives
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.
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny 33 min
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
A video about the many cooperatives in Maleny, Australia, and the beneficial effects they have on the local community. It includes interviews with people from the Maleny Credit Union...
Generation Like 54 min
Generation Like (2014)
Social media gives teens new platforms for self-expression, validation and even potential fame — but at what cost? Today, thanks to the internet, teens are able to connect and engage...
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition 35 min
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
"When today's stories of crushing greed and endless growth have come to an end, what, then, will be the new stories?"
Old Dog Documentaries
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
Inequality For All 90 min
Inequality For All (2013)
A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, INEQUALITY FOR ALL features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and former Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the...
Jacob Kornbluth
Johnny Knoxville: Detroit Lives 36 min
Johnny Knoxville: Detroit Lives
Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America—some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where...
The Coming War on China 110 min
The Coming War on China (2016)
John Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, are on the road...
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
Julian Assange Is Back — Here's What That Means 20 min
Julian Assange Is Back — Here's What That Means
Follow Glenn Greenwald's writing and other journalism at Substack, where you can become a member: https://greenwald.substack.com/
Glenn Greenwald
The Monopoly On Violence 106 min
The Monopoly On Violence (2020)
This is a story of the violence and coercion that underlies our modern societies. Most of the time, our interactions are peaceful and consensual, but there is a large notable exception...
Chris Cofer
Nilüfer Uses Neighbourhood Committees to Increase Civic Action 4 min
Nilüfer Uses Neighbourhood Committees to Increase Civic Action
Nilüfer (Turkey) is the winner of the 2017 Transformative Action Award.
icleieurope
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.
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
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...
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...
Hasan Piker on Charlie Kirk, Dangerous Rhetoric, and the Radical Power of Empathy 18 min
Hasan Piker on Charlie Kirk, Dangerous Rhetoric, and the Radical Power of Empathy
On September 25, the left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was supposed to debate Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. But one hour into an eight-hour...
Mother Jones
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
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
2012: Time For Change 85 min
2012: Time For Change (2010)
This film presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the...
Joao G. Amorim
Resistance 101 50 min
Resistance 101 (2026)
With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These...
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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
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
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