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Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.
Films For Action
The Triumph of Triviality
Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.
John F. Schumaker
12 min
AI’s Newest Buildings Are Already Obsolete
Meta’s Hyperion AI data center in Louisiana is projected to consume five gigawatts of power and cost more than $50 billion. It is one of the largest construction projects on Earth—built...
Stewart Hicks
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
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
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk...
Douglas Haddow
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
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
Tim Hjersted
From Nagasaki to Gaza: How We Learned to Stop Feeling
Psychic numbing, organized forgetting and authoritarian culture are teaching Americans to witness mass suffering without demanding justice.
Henry A. Giroux
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.
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...
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
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...
Jason Arday and the Machinery of Cruelty
Arday's story exposes the cruel underside of performative inclusion: institutions can turn Black achievement into symbolic capital, advertise it as evidence of their own enlightenment...
Henry A. Giroux
5 min
The Eco Co-Op Providing Access to Land for Sustainable Food Production and Living
The Ecological Land Co-operative (ELC) was set up to address the lack of affordable sites for ecological land-based livelihoods in England. There is an enormous disconnect between the...
Ecological Land Cooperative
My Thoughts on the Plight of Labour
The country is in a very grave crisis. That’s what we should be talking about, not the internal travails of the Labour Party. The Brexiteers have no plan; they began backtracking on...
Owen Jones
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
29 min
The Internet Is Dying Faster Than We Thought (Here's How)
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Art Chad
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...
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
32 min
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month
Xi Jinping pulled off something no one thought was possible.
Max Fisher
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
We Asked Our Community How to Make America Great—Here's What They Said
We recently posed a simple question to our community on Facebook: How can we make America great? We got hundreds of comments.
Films For Action
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...
Can't Face the Math: On Climate Science, We're All Karl Rove on the Night of the Election
Throughout this long, crazy campaign, there’s been a tension simmering between empiricists like Nate Silver and Sam Wang, who cited poll data showing Obama with a small but durable lead...
David Roberts
Mark Kelly Is Right: Military Members Have the Power to Resist What They Know Is Wrong
When military members have claimed such power and refused blind military obedience—during the Vietnam War and the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq—it has had a significant impact...
Nan Levinson
The Hidden History of Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali’s resistance to racism and war belongs not only to the 1960s, but the common future of humanity.
Dave Zirin
We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future
How to get from here to there in the next 10 years
Christine Hanna and Berit Anderson
How to Start a Food Co-Op
Starting a food co-op takes a lot of work. But the rewards are many. This book provides an overview of the basic steps and procedures. The manual is not an exhaustive or comprehensive...
Patricia Cumbie and Margaret J. Goldstein
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
Resistance Is Only Half the Equation
When movements are at their most powerful, they not only withdraw cooperation from unjust systems, but build the capacity to live without them.
Barbara Peterson
18 min
The Problem With American Education
Americans from across the political spectrum tend to agree that our education system is failing our students. In this episode, Second Thought takes a look at three of the biggest...
Second Thought
Where Is the Outrage?
From education to politics and culture, corporate power is narrowing the spaces where people learn to question authority, imagine alternatives and act as
Henry A. Giroux
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...
10 min
Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx
Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David...
TEDxSF
AI Populism Could Redeem the AI Transition
The political vehicle for a redemptive AI transition does not exist yet, but it is the only version of this story in which ordinary people come out ahead.
Joseph Gelfer
8 min
Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500
Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled materials.
Happen Films
10 min
How to Resist the Pressures of Conformity
The social psychology of conformity affects us all, but there are ways to maintain our independence, as explained in this animated short.
TheraminTrees
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
77 min
Capitalism Won't Save Us. Here's What Will. | Jason Hickel
My guest today is Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science & Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and author of two books: The Divide...
Michael Mezzatesta
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of...
Tim Hjersted
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and...
George Lakey
15 min
America First vs Israel First: War on Iran
The US and Trump attacked Iran after being dragged by Israel into another war for regime change in the Middle East. But this war is unleashing a major battle, one in US politics between...
uncivilized
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
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?
Steve Bearman
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
The Problem at the Heart of Every Socialism Debate
"Socialism" has been used to describe everything from Soviet gulags to universal healthcare. The word was always vague. That's what made it so easy to weaponize, writes Peter Joseph.
Peter Joseph
Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power
Bosses don't grow on trees. They don't magically appear at your job. They aren't born into their roles. They are created. They are manufactured to fulfill arbitrary positions of power...
Colin Jenkins
5 min
How Cynicism Masks Pain
I was just feeling some grief before you came and found me looking out at the water there - birds diving for fish, seals out there - and I just felt such sadness that there are fewer of...
Sustainable Human
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
We Went on Rent Strike and Won
My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
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
33 min
Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong
Gillette's newest ad, 'The Best a Man Can Be', has created a social media firestorm in the last few days. Rebel Wisdom sat down to discuss the reaction, the cultural context behind it...
Rebel Wisdom
10 min
Masanobu Fukuoka (Mind, Farm, Life) - Three Part Series with Larry Korn
Seen as the father of modern day natural farming, Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) was the author of The One Straw Revolution, a fundamental volume for understanding how human beings can...
City as Nature
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.
David Cain
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
We Created Islamic Extremism: Those Blaming Islam for ISIS Would Have Supported Osama Bin Laden in the '80s
Jingoists conveniently forget the West's Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida
Ben Norton
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...
20 min
Communist Nostalgia Explained
Do Eastern Europeans actually want communism back? Polls show high nostalgia for the communist era, but is this the full picture? In this video, I break down whether the narrative that...
1Dime
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
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
12 min
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
How did a community beat Jeff Bezos? When Amazon proposed a massive, water-guzzling data center out Tucson, community members organized and shut it down. Here's how they took on the...
More Perfect Union
10 min
Grayson Perry: All Man
Artist Grayson Perry explores contemporary masculinity, visiting ultra-male worlds to explore the changing lives and expectations of men in Britain today, and reflecting on his own...
Grayson Perry: All Man
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...
2 min
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
Andrew Nisker is back with a new documentary, This Film is Garbage! Is the future greener—or bleaker—than before? Nisker is determined to find out. In this film, he challenges the...
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...
Why Voting Alone Doesn’t Build Democracy — and What Actually Does
Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
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
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.
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
97 min
No One Is Illegal: Every Day Tomorrow (trailer)
The war in Ukraine has exposed the double standards of European migration laws applied to women, children and men of different nationalities, mainly non-European.
Samaruc Productions
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
What the U.S. Really Owes Black America
Slavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African American wealth-building. Can we calculate the economic damage?
Tracy Loeffelholz Dunn anJeff Neumann
The White Man in That Photo
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer...
Riccardo Gazzaniga
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
7 min
Yellow Fever
Yellow Fever is a mixed-media documentary animation by Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii
Ng'endo Mukii
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.
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...
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
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.
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
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...
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
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.
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
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...
My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn: An Overview of Key Lessons
We’re awkwardly caught between being too intelligent to work as well as turtles and mushrooms, but not intelligent enough to be like angels or gods. The flaw, then, is intelligence...
Tom Murphy
82 min
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005)
The epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer.
Don Corleone Trump
Trump’s White House runs a mob-style extortion racket that will bankrupt the country the way Trump bankrupted his casinos.
Chris Hedges
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.
3 min
Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?
Why I Refuse to Let Technology Control Me. By Prince Ea
Prince Ea
61 min
BlackRock Is Terrifying (2025)
This is not another mainstream video about BlackRock.By now, people know the public narrative:
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.
The Best Social Change Documentaries of 2014
This round-up features Films For Action's picks for best activist film of 2014, most of which can be watched for free online. Our favorites for the year are at the top of the list.
Films For Action
4 min
Kensho - Dreaming with Alan Watts
Short film dreamt by Aaron Paradox, narrated by Alan Watts.
Aaron Paradox
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
3 min
The NDAA Explained in 3 Minutes
Regardless of where on this planet you live, and no matter what your nationality, the fact that the indefinite detention provisions of the NDAA are still on the books, should disturb you...
StormCloudsGathering
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
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...
111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
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