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The Social Construction of Reality
This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"
Transition21
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.
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
8 min
Caught in Conflict: Women in Pakistan
Discreet and often in disguise, for five years renowned photojournalist Alixandra Fazzina collected the stories and pictures of women surviving conflict on the borders and in the cities...
The Guardian
6 min
Machiavelli’s Advice For Nice Guys and Other Good People Who Want to Make a Difference
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. // The School of Life
The School of Life
25 min
Zohran Mamdani vs the Machine | Fault Lines
Zohran Mamdani was an unlikely frontrunner in New York’s mayoral election. His promise to make life more affordable for working-class New Yorkers, combined with his outspoken criticism...
Al Jazeera English
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
11 min
'Annihilate Everyone': Israeli TV Promotes Genocidal Song
This really does have to be seen to be believed.
Owen Jones
Six Easy Ways to Tell If That Viral Story Is a Hoax
“And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”...
Pete Brown
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
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
Why I've Started to Fear My Fellow Social Justice Activists
We are alienating each other with unrestrained callouts and unchecked self-righteousness. Here’s how that can stop.
Frances Lee
39 min
The Myth of Charlie Kirk
"Today I want to talk about Charlie Kirk and some of the mythmaking we have seen around him and his life since he was killed in September 2025. I hope this doesn't need to be said, but...
Three Arrows
12 min
"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked)
"Socialism Always Fails" is a claim I hear frequently. More often than not, when someone deploys this quip, it's meant to end any further conversation about socialism so they don't have...
overzealots
37 min
The Case for Solarpunk
Solarpunk is an aesthetic and genre which envisions a sustainable future built around social and ecological resilience. It often includes concepts such as renewable energy, rewilding &...
SolarpunkAlana
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.
Mark Greene
13 min
Claim CRITIQUE: Millions of Votes Stolen by Trump, Kamala Won
David Pakman examines Greg Palast's viral article claiming that Donald Trump did not really defeat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
David Pakman Show
45 min
The Man Who Swims With Crocodiles
Known as the 'Crocodile Man', Costa Rican animal lover 'Chito' swims, plays and even feeds 'Pocho' the giant crocodile in what is one of the world's most unlikely friendships. The Man...
86 min
All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)
Three kids, ages 10, 8 and 5, spend nine months self-isolating with their family in the Yukon wilderness over a long northern winter. Small cabin, no friends, no internet, no phone, no...
2 min
2040: Join The Regeneration (trailer)
Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already...
7 min
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism Is Destroying Our Democracy
How elites on both sides of the political spectrum have undermined our social, political and environmental commons.
The Nation
28 min
In Defense of Che Guevara (How the Media Lies to You)
When you search for details about the Argentine-born revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, you will be greeted with copious slander and lies about his life. He is often defamed as a...
overzealots
59 min
From A Village To The World: The Journey of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (2023)
Iceland has seen a dramatic transformation in recent decades, from being one of the poorest nations in the Western world, to a leader in many economic indices. What accounts for...
David Wallerstein
7 min
The End of Kings | Caitlin Johnstone
When kings went out of style, that impulse didn’t leave with them; it simply found a different way of manifesting.
Sustainable Human
62 min
Transgender Neurobiology with Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Robert Sapolsky is a neuroendocrinology researcher and author. He is a professor of biology, neurology, neurological sciences, and neurosurgery at Stanford University. Sapolsky has...
The SCEA
7 min
How To Have A Relationship With A Wild Animal | Steve Karlin
How does a human being develop a relationship with a wild animal? Steve Karlin, of Wildlife Associates, is a wild animal rehabilitation expert that explains how animals can sense how we...
Steve Karlin
106 min
War/Dance (2007)
The superb documentary War/Dance reveals the redemptive power of music, even in the most horrific places. Focusing on three children in their early teens in war-torn Uganda–stoic Nancy...
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
80 min
The Red Pill Lie
There is currently a movement known as "red pill" that is handicapping young people and dooming them to a lifetime of failed relationships. They're the disease presenting themselves as...
DarkMatter2525
17 min
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
Ever wondered what it would be like to live in a neighborhood that wasn’t designed around cars? Well - in most of the country that’s actually illegal. But in Tempe, AZ there’s a new...
Hard Reset
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
5 min
Judge Not: a Short Film about Judgement, Compassion, and Learning to Love the Cringe
Over the last couple years, I’ve tried to bring an increased awareness to the relationship between judgement, compassion, and suffering--both within myself and the larger collective...
Matthew Freidell
62 min
Franciscan Mysticism: Becoming What You Already Are | Richard Rohr
The experience of god inside oneself is often called Franciscan Mysticism. It's about becoming what you already are, and the profound wisdom St. Francis imparted for living in harmony...
Divine Mystics Academy
16 min
If You're Feeling Scared and Overwhelmed, Please Watch This Stoic Advice
This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the...
Daily Stoic
27 min
15-Minute Cities for Leftists
15-minute cities could be the solution to climate change and income inequality. Or they could just make everything worse. What we do know is that they probably aren't dystopian...
Radical Planning
2 min
Oliver Stone: The Untold History Of The United States (trailer)
There is a classified America we were never meant to see. From Academy Award®-winning writer/director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, this twelve-part documentary series looks...
Oliver Stone
12 min
Is Universal Basic Income The Future?
Imagine a future in which every person was afforded the basics of life. How would this change our society? Is UBI the future? – Second Thought
Second Thought
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food...
Mike P. Sinn
The Pain You Feel Is Capitalism Dying
I know it hurts — but what you are feeling (alongside millions of others) is the natural consequence of late-stage capitalism.
Joe Brewer
28 min
A Cloud Never Dies | Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (2022)
A new biographical documentary of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh narrated by actor Peter Coyote, A Cloud Never Dies weaves together original film and photographic archives, telling the story...
4 min
This Is What Global Wealth Inequality Looked Like in 2013. It's Only Gotten More Extreme.
In 2013, the richest 300 people in the world were more wealthy than the poorest 3 billion combined. Since then, the disparity has continued to grow because every year rich countries take...
37 min
The Key to Happiness in a Distracted World
What could ancient Greek philosophers tell us about how to live our lives today?
Matt D'Avella
58 min
Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)
Official reports state that a worker falls victim to toxic chemical poisoning in the manufacturing process every five hours, though the actual toll is suspected to be much higher...
4 min
Meet the Activist Who Wants Women Everywhere to 'Free the Nipple'
Most American cities are full of breasts. They are everywhere: On billboards. On storefronts. On
Mic
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
91 min
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2016)
“As long as rabbits don't have historians, history will be written by the hunters.” With the tremendous success of his book, A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn...
Azam Olivier
4 min
Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother
Arkan Lushwala has allowed himself to be photographed for the first time ever, so that he could make the video you see here. His message is critical for us, human creatures of the Earth...
Pachamama Alliance
95 min
The War on Kids (2010)
Blame for problems with schooling in America is often assigned to insufficient funding or the inherent failings of today's kids. In rare cases, parents, teachers, and administrators are...
Cevin Solig
58 min
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
There's a worst case scenario looming here, isn't there?
Literate Machine
16 min
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
Imagine a world where the homes we live in, the clothes we wear, and even the sensors in our electronics weren’t manufactured, but grown. Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, is...
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
Can Porn Be Feminist? A Conversation With Erika Lust
Feminist porn is sex on film showing women and men as sexual equals - that sex is something you do together, not just something that a man does to a woman
Harriet Williamson
77 min
Who Is REALLY Controlling the Economy?
In this video, I’m exploring how business elites and super-rich industrialists funded a narrative that would come to dominate the 20th century: the myth that free markets equal freedom...
Anna Bocca
2 min
Rewind The Future
This viral public awareness video has a powerful and heart-tugging message about the consequences of our eating and lifestyle habits - dating back to our first years of life.
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Strong4Life
5 min
We Went To a Texas Town Emptied By ICE Raids
In 2024 McAllen, Texas had a booming economy, with $100 million in increased sales tax revenue from 2023. Now, residents tell us that it's a ghost town and the local economy is hurting...
More Perfect Union
8 min
What is Trauma? The Author of “The Body Keeps the Score” Explains
In Part 1, Bessel van der Kolk talks about trauma. In Part 2, he talks about 6 ways to heal trauma without medication.
Big Think
8 min
Your Solarpunk Guide: From Dystopia to Utopia and Beyond
Solarpunk is a vision of a future that is sustainable, equitable, and optimistic, where humanity has learned to live in harmony with the natural world and technology is used to improve...
naturio
10 min
How Consumerism Ruins Our Planet and Finances
Consumerism is destroying our earth and our wallets - here's how. In this video essay, we're discussing the advertisement-driven world we live in, the ways consumerism impacts personal...
Cara Nicole
18 min
The Death Toll of Capitalism (and the 100 Million Lie)
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Hakim
88 min
Seeds of Permaculture: If It's Beautiful, It's Better (2013)
An interactive film about permaculture in the tropics, with education and inspiration as the main threads running through this hour-and-a-half-documentary. We remind you subtitles are...
14 min
FDR vs the Billionaire Class: How the New Deal Saved America
What really happened in the United States in 1933?
Taken for Granted
78 min
Talking Masculinity with the 'Most Dangerous Therapist in the World' | Jerry Hyde
Jerry Hyde is a shadow therapist with 25 years clinical experience, who rejects many of the conventionally held views of the mainstream psychotherapy world. He works primarily with men...
Jerry Hyde
25 min
Chris Hedges on Trump, Epstein and the Decline of American Democracy | UpFront
One year into Donald Trump’s return to office, a wave of hardline actions - from volatile ICE raids to growing concern over political pressure on the media - has raised alarm about the...
Al Jazeera English
2 min
Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: a Zen Film (trailer)
"Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Film" featuring the groundbreaking work of Zen teacher & therapist Barry Magid.
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
8 min
Freiburg, Germany: The Solar City
Freiburg is currently the ecological capital of Germany. This is a German TV news clip spotlighting the city's solar innovations. Again, this in comparison to the media in America? The...
conradsh451
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.
42 min
The Epstein Files: How the Rich Avoid Justice
You already know the justice system treats rich and poor differently. This film shows you exactly how the machinery works — and it's worse than you think.
LJ
5 min
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory in Under 5 Minutes
Nothing to see here, folks! Move along...
58 min
The War on Thinking in America
Why does America distrust experts and celebrate ignorance? From Hofstadter to Postman to Jacoby, this video explores how anti-intellectualism shaped U.S. culture turning politics into...
SPARKUP
Beyond Capitalism with a Human Face: A Radically Simple Way
Ted Trainer is one of the wisest, boldest, and most dedicated advocates of The Simpler Way. In 2010 he published a book called, The Transition to a Sustainable and Just World, and I...
Samuel Alexander
Mesmerizing Photos of People Lying in a Week's Worth of Their Trash
The United States has a trash problem. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the average American produces more than 4 pounds of garbage per day. That’s more than double...
Jordan G. Teicher
39 min
Jerry Seinfeld’s Entire World is Falling Apart
A thorough and unbiased decoding of Jerry Seinfeld's recent controversial remarks made during his relentless media tour in support of his new film Unfrosted - and an examination of how...
The Elephant Graveyard
21 min
The Healthy Masculinity of Ted Lasso | A Therapist Explains
A videoessay breaking down the masculinity in the apple tv show Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudekis as a football coach. This analysis considers the healthy masculinity of characters such...
A Therapist Explains
The Public School Nightmare: Why Fix a System Designed to Destroy Individual Thought?
I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are spending far too much money on schooling, not too little. I want you to consider that we have too many people employed in...
John Taylor Gatto
101 min
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History
A one hour and 40 minute overview.
LJ
Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It
There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub...
George Monbiot
The Tyranny of Compulsory Schooling
Let me speak to you about dumbness because that is what schools teach best. Old-fashioned dumbness used to be simple ignorance: you didn't know something, but there were ways to find out...
John Taylor Gatto
The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Capitalism’s hierarchy within workplaces contradicts democratic ideals. In practice, economic power undermines real democracy and freedom for most people.
Richard D. Wolff
5 Of The Best Subvertising Campaigns
Subvertising: noun, the practice of making parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make an alternative statement.
Andrew Butler
15 min
Homesteading Family Living Off-Grid in a Spectacular Earthship
This inspiring off-grid homesteading family lives in a renovated stone earthship. They grow their own food, collect rainwater, use solar power, have composting toilets, and they have a...
Exploring Alternatives
6 min
Free Hugs on St. Patrick's Day (Inspirational Video)
What happens when you take some Free Hugs signs downtown on St. Patrick's Day? Watch to find out. We are changing the world...one hug at a time. Be a Part of the Shift.
Skull Babylon / Paradigm Shift Central
29 min
Chris Hedges and Glen Ford: Analysis of the George Floyd Protests
On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the George Floyd protests erupting in over 140 American cities with Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report.
54 min
The New Red Scare Is Real Dumb
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Michael Burns
7 min
Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication
Communication is more than a string of words that gets across static information. The language we use to converse does more than give facts—it can actually offer understanding. Take it...
Big Think
40 min
Israel’s Reel Extremism (2025)
Critics have called this original Zeteo documentary a ‘gut-punching’, ‘extraordinary investigation’ that you must watch to truly ‘see Israel’.
What Is the Opposite of Fascism?
Fascism is not merely a set of authoritarian habits or unpleasant attitudes. It is a political arrangement designed to centralize power: the fusion of state authority with corporate...
Tim Hjersted
12 min
5 Fast Growing Veggies You Can Harvest in Under 1 Month
If you're just getting started on your first garden, it's important to have early success. These 5 groups of crops are extremely easy and fast to grow, so you can have your first...
Epic Gardening
11 min
AI Is Remixing Everything We’ve Ever Made. Here’s What That Means.
We uploaded everything. Now AI is remixing it all.
Kirby Ferguson
14 min
Australian Comedian Perfectly Sums Up Why Other Countries Think US Gun Laws Are Crazy
At least 10 people were killed and 20 others injured when a shooter opened fire on the campus of Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday, October 1. According to Douglas County...
Jim Jefferies
53 min
The Invention of Individual Responsibility
Humans love to fix things, to find the cause of a problem, to probe, tinker, and mend. We ask, in many different ways, Why does this happen? What’s the root cause? What’s the origin?...
Then & Now
13 min
Exploring Passive House Design - 90% Energy Savings!
What if I told you that it’s possible to build a house that uses up to 90% less energy than your current house? And combining that with solar panels you could heat, cool, and even charge...
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
1 min
Was The Soviet Union Really a Socialist Country? Noam Chomsky Dispels This Propaganda In 1 Minute
Both America and the Soviet Union called the Soviet Union a socialist system but for different reasons. America called it a socialist system because it wanted to defame and demonize...
Marx and the Indigenous
Monthly Review | Feb 01, 2020 | Vol. 71 No. 9
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman
Who's Afraid of Howard Zinn's Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States A recent Associated Press expose—drawing on e-mails obtained under the Freedom of Information...
Sonia Murrow & Robert Cohen
29 min
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Bryce and Misty have spent the last 12 years building a cob home, homesteading, living off the grid, and homeschooling their two daughters. They live without a car, so for...
Exploring Alternatives
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
9 min
How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video
I hated the process of making AI videos, but I couldn't ignore how powerful it was getting. These are the 5 tips I figured out as a filmmaker without surrendering my creative process...
Herman Huang
18 min
The War on Consciousness: Graham Hancock at TEDxWhitechapel
Graham Hancock tells the story of his 24-year relationship with cannabis brought to an abrupt halt in 2011 after an encounter with ayahuasca, the sacred visionary brew of the Amazon...
Nikhos Garcia
47 min
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Advertising & the End of the World features an illustrated presentation by Sut Jhally of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Sut Jhally
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
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