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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
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
3 min
Policing for Profit - The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture
The site that put this out is not the greatest orginization, but they hit the nail on the head with this one. It shows the basic concept of civil asset forefiture, a true problem not...
Institute for Justice
70 min
Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)
RE-LEARNING HOPE is the story of Unitierra, an autonomous university in Oaxaca, Mexico that is immersed in, and has emerged from, the social and indigenous movements of the region. The...
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
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
Wanted: Men Who Love
Every female wants to be loved by a male. Every woman wants to love and be loved by the males in her life. Whether gay or straight, bisexual or celibate, she wants to feel the love of...
bell hooks
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
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
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
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
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
Audre Lorde: "Learning From the 60s" (1982)
"Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies' work by destroying each other."
Audre Lorde
28 min
The Devil Ark Story Part 1
The story of the building of Devil Ark, a breeding sanctuary set up by the Australian Reptile Park to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. Shown on CH 9 6/9/2013
Donald Trump and the Age of Evil
By any standard of morality, Trump is depraved. But adorned with the power of the state, he descends to another level — the level of evil.
Chris Hedges
Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life
(Excerpted from the book, The Story of B) With every audience and every individual, I have to begin by making them see that the cultural self-awareness we inherit from our parents and...
Daniel Quinn
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
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?
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
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
In Love With the Darkness: Finding Hope in a Cynical, Burning World
These past several weeks have been riddled with news that could douse the flame of even the brightest of spirits.
Katherine Cross
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...
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...
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
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?
Steve Bearman
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
89 min
Guns in America - A Six Part Series (2017)
AJ+'s documentary series Guns in America explores how fear and power define Americans' relationship with guns. The six-part series examines the controversy over assault rifles, guns in...
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
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...
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...
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
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
When Monsters Walk Among Us
To imagine Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Benjamin Netanyahu, or other architects of authoritarian violence simply as monsters risks placing them outside history, as if...
Henry A. Giroux
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
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...
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...
Four Kinds of Dystopia
The twentieth century saw four basic visions of hell on earth, or dystopia. These were:
Darren Allen
89 min
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
School Circles is an independent documentary that explores the practice of democratic schools in the Netherlands. The film shows students, teachers and staff members coming together to...
Marianne Osório
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...
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
90 min
Apology Of An Economic Hitman (2010)
John Perkins was a prominent member of the top-secret team of “economic hit men”, who used fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, military coups and...
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 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
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
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism: Could a New Economic Approach Save the Planet?
To avoid social, environmental and economic collapse, the world needs to move beyond the standard choices of capitalism or socialism. That’s the conclusion of a new report released...
Jo Confino
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
Understanding Patriarchy
Patriarchy is the single most life-threatening social disease assaulting the male body and spirit in our nation. Yet most men do not use the word “patriarchy” in everyday life. Most men...
bell hooks
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
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...
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...
The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all...
Yasha Levine
32 min
China Quietly Saved the World Last Month
Xi Jinping pulled off something no one thought was possible.
Max Fisher
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
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
5 min
Project 2025 Explained in Schoolhouse Rock Style!
The song that could save America. Share widely.
Kravits
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
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
Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde
Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all...
Tai Amri Spann-Ryan
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
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Change The World
Hungry for change? These documentaries light the way by showing examples of people fighting against the status quo, creating alternatives and living a more beautiful world into being.
Tim Hjersted
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...
60 min
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are...
Tamer Soliman
95 min
Fed Up (2014)
This is the movie the food industry doesn't want you to see. FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food...
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
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
96 min
The Need to GROW (2019)
With an estimated 60 years of farmable soil left on Earth, The Need To GROW offers an intimate look into the hearts of activists and innovators in the food movement - an 8 year old girl...
12 min
The AI Purity Test Is Coming for Every Writer and It Sucks
Alexandre Dumas ran a content factory in 19th century Paris with 73 collaborators. His books are in the literary canon. If he published today, Reddit would tear him apart.
JA Westenberg
We Are The People of the Apocalypse
As growth-driven consumer culture spurs on planetary destruction, why don’t we spring into action? Psychologist John F Schumaker says a frightening erosion of human personality lies at...
John F. Schumaker
115 min
PBS FRONTLINE: The Interrupters (2011)
The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed...
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.
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...
71 min
The Journey From Syria (2016)
Reporter Matthew Cassel spent a year documenting the journey of Syrian jeweler Aboud Shalhoub as he travels from Turkey to Greece, and through Eastern Europe to the Netherlands to be...
Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
What if we told you that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we...
Alnoor Ladha, Martin Kirk
52 min
Under Poisoned Skies: Iraq's Toxic Oil Fields (2024)
From the front line of climate change in Iraq, BBC News Arabic unmasks an invisible killer: air pollution, investigating a hidden epidemic of cancer and the deadly impact of oil...
2 min
After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day
Oops.
charstarleneTV
75 min
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the...
Lucy Martens
What Makes Call-Out Culture So Toxic
In the end, call-out culture mirrors what the prison industrial complex teaches us about crime and punishment: to banish and dispose of individuals rather than to engage with them as...
Asam Ahmad
To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
More than 20 years ago, the psychologist Arthur Aron succeeded in making two strangers fall in love in his laboratory. Last summer, I applied his technique in my own life, which is how I...
Mandy Len Catron
47 min
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked...
Sut Jhally
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
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...
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...
The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard About It but It Completely Affects Your Life
This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly...
Deep Ecology Hub
111 min
The Settlers (2016)
An intimate look at life inside the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Shimon Dotan
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
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...
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
74 min
Sand Wars (2013) ($8)
By the end of the 21st century, beaches will be a thing of the past. That is the alarming forecast of a growing number of scientists and environmental NGOs. Sand has become a vital...
Denis Delestrac
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
My daughter is about to turn 13 and I’ve been smoking a lot recently, and so – in the wee small hours, when my lungs feel like there’s a small mouse inside them, scratching to get out –...
Caitlin Moran
5 min
The Truth About Hamas and the Hostages
"Release the hostages, and the war will end tomorrow." Remember that line?It's time to talk about the bombshell new article in Haaretz that reveals Netanyahu was warned Hamas was...
Zeteo
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
How AI Could Be Used to Revolutionize Democracy and Challenge State and Corporate Power
The same technology that could create the most powerful surveillance state in history could also create unprecedented tools for decentralisation.
Kiran Pillai
The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Chris Hedges
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
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
84 min
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
From Executive Producer Mark Ruffalo comes the world’s first documentary film on the Rights of Nature Movement, a “Paradigm Shifting” story where the 'Rights of Nature' has...
Joshua B. Pribanic
59 min
Fake Populism: How Trump Helps the Rich and Hurts Everyone Else
Donald Trump is portrayed as a "populist" committed to average working-class people, but his policies benefit wealthy elites at the expense of everyone else. His administration includes...
Geopolitical Economy Report
55 min
The Warning (2009)
In the midst of the 1990s bull market, one lone regulator warned about the derivatives dangers that would cause an economic meltdown nearly a decade later in the housing market. ...
Michael Kirk
90 min
The Age of Stupid (2009) ($5)
Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite plays an old man living in the devastated world of 2055 in this documentary-drama-animation hybrid from Director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning...
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