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We Need to Talk About Big Tech's Role in Fascism. 22 min
We Need to Talk About Big Tech's Role in Fascism.
22 min · The time has come, I can no longer remain silent. The current US administration is perpetrating a fascist takeover of our democracy, and Big Tech CEOs and companies are complicit. It's...
Honest Government Ad | UK 4 min
Honest Government Ad | UK
4 min · The UK Government has made an ad about the deepening cost of living crisis and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
What is Project 3.5? | Extinction Rebellion UK 11 min
What is Project 3.5? | Extinction Rebellion UK
11 min · We’ve got a plan, it’s called Project 3.5 The idea is a simple one: To build a movement that’s too big for the government and the fossil fuel industry to ignore, and to do it one door at...
Stephen Fry in Support of Extinction Rebellion: 'Something Has to be Done' 8 min
Stephen Fry in Support of Extinction Rebellion: 'Something Has to be Done'
8 min · National treasure, actor and comedian Stephen Fry called on the British public to support Extinction Rebellion. Speaking to camera Fry, said: “Reasonable people, I think, understand that...
Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis 5 min
Social Media Addiction - How It Changes Your Brain | Luke Burgis
5 min · By definition, mimetic desire means that we're adopting another person's desire as our own, usually without even realizing that we're doing it. Social media has given us millions of...
There's a Sickness at the Heart of British Democracy & It's Called Oligarchy | Peter Jukes 9 min
There's a Sickness at the Heart of British Democracy & It's Called Oligarchy | Peter Jukes
9 min · Tory Corruption is just the tip of the iceberg...
Selected Scenes from Cry Freedom 9 min
Selected Scenes from Cry Freedom
9 min · Cry Freedom is a 1987 feature film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in apartheid-era South Africa it chronicles the life and death of black freedom fighter Steve Biko (born 18 Dec...
This Polish Ad Will Give You The Feels, For Reals 3 min
This Polish Ad Will Give You The Feels, For Reals
3 min · This is an ad for Allegro, a Polish company similar to eBay, and it's heartwarmingly lovely.
Our Obsession With 'Good Immigrants' Breeds Intolerance 2 min
Our Obsession With 'Good Immigrants' Breeds Intolerance
2 min · Society sets the bar so high to become a 'good immigrant', argues writer Nikesh Shukla, that normal immigrants are demonised. He says non-Brits in the public eye have a simple path to...
Carbon Omissions: 3 Lies The UK Government Has Been Telling about Its Response to Climate Change 3 min
Carbon Omissions: 3 Lies The UK Government Has Been Telling about Its Response to Climate Change
3 min · A new animation about consumption, climate change and wellbeing by PIRC, George Monbiot and Leo Murray. For more info, see: http://carbonomissions.org.uk
Nowhere Line: Voices From Manus Island 15 min
Nowhere Line: Voices From Manus Island
15 min · An animated short film, narrated by two asylum-seeking men detained in Australia's Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, recounting the dangerous journeys that brought them to the...
Human Rights Explained in a Beautiful Two Minute Animation 2 min
Human Rights Explained in a Beautiful Two Minute Animation
2 min · This incredible 2-minute animation by www.rightsinfo.org will tell you everything you need to know about your human rights and why they matter. Want to know more?
Action Man: Battlfield Casualties 3 min
Action Man: Battlfield Casualties
3 min · The UK is one of only nineteen countries worldwide, and the only EU member, that still recruits 16 year olds into its armed forces, (other nations include Iran and North Korea). The vast...
Powerful Testimony - UK Veterans Speak Out Against War, For Peace 3 min
Powerful Testimony - UK Veterans Speak Out Against War, For Peace
3 min · Veterans For Peace UK is an ex-services organisation of men and women who have served in every war that Britain has fought since WW2. Thier work involves:
Yellow Fever 7 min
Yellow Fever
7 min · Yellow Fever is a mixed-media documentary animation by Kenyan filmmaker Ng’endo Mukii
Democracy Needs A None Of The Above Option To Work 4 min
Democracy Needs A None Of The Above Option To Work
4 min · Four videos by NOTA UK on why we need a formal 'None of the Above' (NOTA) option on the ballot paper for all future elections and how to properly implement it.
How to Waste £375 Billion: The Failure of Quantitative Easing 6 min
How to Waste £375 Billion: The Failure of Quantitative Easing
6 min · In the years following the financial crisis, the UK wasted £375bn on a failed scheme to stimulate the economy and end the recession. This was one of the biggest missed opportunities in...
What Is Money? 2 min
What Is Money?
2 min · We all use money, we all rely on money. But do we know how money works? Where does money come from? How is money created?
Could These 3 Simple Changes to Banking Fix the Economy? 4 min
Could These 3 Simple Changes to Banking Fix the Economy?
4 min · If someone told you that a mountain of personal debt could be cleared via 3 simple changes to the way that money and banking works, would you like to know how? Would you like to see a...
Photographer Proves Strangers are Friends You Haven't Met Yet 2 min
Photographer Proves Strangers are Friends You Haven't Met Yet
2 min · What a beautiful, inspiring story. Photographer Richard Renaldi takes two random strangers on the street and has them pose together in a photograph as if they were intimate family...
The Shocking Reason Why the Rich Are Getting Richer Explained Beautifully in 3 Minutes 3 min
The Shocking Reason Why the Rich Are Getting Richer Explained Beautifully in 3 Minutes
3 min · 1. The current money system distributes money from the bottom 90% to the top 10% Because 97% of the money in the UK is created by banks, someone must pay interest on nearly every...
The Next Time You Consider Whether Your Server Is 'Worth' A Tip, Remember This Clip 2 min
The Next Time You Consider Whether Your Server Is 'Worth' A Tip, Remember This Clip
2 min · There is so much going on behind the scenes for people who work at restaurants, no matter where you live. The reality for many of these workers can be unpleasant or even downright scary...
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization 61 min
How Permaculture Can Save Humanity and the Earth, but Not Civilization
61 min · Hemenway is a frequent teacher, consultant and lecturer on permaculture and ecological design throughout the U.S. and other countries. His writing has appeared in magazines such as...
A Simple Solution to the Debt Crisis: Positive Money 4 min
A Simple Solution to the Debt Crisis: Positive Money
4 min · Have you ever wondered why there’s so much debt? Or why the experts and authorities seem completely unable to solve the current debt crisis?
Conventional Economics Is A Form Of Brain Damage | David Suzuki 5 min
Conventional Economics Is A Form Of Brain Damage | David Suzuki
5 min · An "externality" is an effect of an industry whose costs are born by society, rather than by the company. Cancer is an externality of the tobacco industry. Climate change is an...
John Pilger: "There Is No War On Terror... There Is A War OF Terror." 3 min
John Pilger: "There Is No War On Terror... There Is A War OF Terror."
3 min · John Pilger speaks frankly about the "War on Terror," saying that no such thing exists. "There is a war OF terror," he says, and it is primarily state-sponsored terror, and most of the...
Why Do Banks Make So Much Money? 3 min
Why Do Banks Make So Much Money?
3 min · Banks make so much money because they can create money, effectively out of nothing, by lending. Every single pound in your bank account was created by a bank, not by your...
Logorrhea 2 min
Logorrhea
2 min · Cool, animated short inspired by the books NO LOGO by Naomi Klein and CULTURE JAM by Kalle Lasn.
A Convenient Solution 9 min
A Convenient Solution
9 min · A short film about climate change, energy and nuclear power. If you're confused about whether we need nuclear power to stop climate change, take nine minutes of your time to watch this...
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