FILMS FOR ACTION

Elephant Refugees (2020)

When climate change intensified the frequent droughts in the Kalahari woodlands of eastern Botswana, a determined family of caring people welcomed hundreds of thirsty elephants at Elephant Sands Bush Camp. The family struggles to provide water to as many as 500 refugee elephants a day.

Activism   Animal Rights   Climate Change   Environment
Directed by Louise Hogarth
Environment
Rachel Carson (2017)
Radical Neighbouring | Adam Wilson
12 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Sustainable Homestead in a Self-Built Cob Home
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
Vikalp Sangam (विकल्प संगम): a Confluence of Alternatives
Churning the Earth (2024)
The Most Corrupt Corporation In the World Is Taking Over Our Food Supply
Why This Far-right Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
We're Deep Frying the Rainforest
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
This Film Is Garbage! (trailer)
The Eternal Song (trailer)
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
How We're Restoring Ancient Forest WITHOUT Planting Trees in Madagascar
The Fisherman and the Banker (2024) ($9)
Planting Trees Won't Save the Planet. Protecting Forests Will.
Murmurings of the Land | Stephen Jenkinson & Nathalie Roy of the Orphan Wisdom Farm (2025)
How Two Billionaires Erased a Rural Ohio Town
It's Revolution or Death (2025)
PFAS: The Secret Toxins in Your Body
How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows | Climate Town
The Hottest Year In Human History, And Where We Go From Here (2024)
How Mushrooms Clean Up the Planet (and Other Fungi Powers)
LAFD: Design For Disaster - The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
Deep Ecology (2025) ($5)
The TRUTH about LA's Wildfires | The Kyle Kulinski Show
Jon Stewart Calls Out GOP Hypocrisy with L.A. Wildfire Disaster Relief | The Daily Show
Power: One River, Two Nations (1996)
1 Million Members, 100 Million Trees: How Brazil’s Socialist Farmers Are Fighting Big Ag
A DYING SEA (2021)
Yasuni Man (2020) ($5)
THE LAST HOPE CAMP (2022)
What If Climate Change Was a Hoax? | Frankly 72
Bill Moyers
Patron Documentaries
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Affluenza (1997)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
We Are Many (2020)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
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