FILMS FOR ACTION

TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless

With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.

Benjamin Bratton, Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, has a huge problem with TED, and he isn't afraid to tell them so right to their face.

- Neetzan Zimmerman via Gawker

Rate this video 
Media Literacy
Everything Is a Remix | How Creative Commons Supports a Vibrant Culture
Watch These First
Trending Videos
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
780 min - 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.The series was...
Schooling the World (2010)
66 min
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
84 min
Sicko (2007)
123 min
'Fascism 101': Mehdi Breaks Down Trump's Plan to Crush Dissent
56 min - In the latest episode of ‘Mehdi Unfiltered,’ Mehdi breaks down one of Donald Trump’s most fascistic plans: using the U.S. military to crush dissent. He discusses Trump’s plan to invoke the...
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
58 min
Born Sexy Yesterday: A Hollywood Movie Trope That Maybe Needs to Die
18 min
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
43 min
9/11: Decade of Deception (2015)
124 min - On the tenth anniversary of the Attacks of September 11th, 2001, expert witnesses gathered at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to provide evidence-based research that called into question the...
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
85 min
Surviving Progress (2011)
82 min
How Wolves Change Rivers | George Monbiot
4 min
LOAD MORE
Trending Articles
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
Russell Means
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
Films For Action
Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine
Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Films For Action
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use Change the World
Films For Action
The Cautious Case for Harris
Vincent Pagliaccio
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
George Lakey
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Panic Volkushka
The White Man in That Photo
Riccardo Gazzaniga
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
David Cain
The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner
Michael E Sparks
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
Tim Hjersted
10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society
Wisdom Pills
Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal
Chris Agnos
Building Real Democracy in the Digital Era
Birgitta Jonsdottir
Obama Gives Bush "Absolute Immunity" For Everything
Abby Zimet
60 Eco-Conscious Documentaries to Honor Mother Earth
Films For Action
John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip
John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley
8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
Bruce E. Levine
Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter
Caitlin Moran
The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza
Omer Bartov
Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being
Shareable
The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor - a Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty
Tim Hjersted
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Douglas Haddow
The Conflation Trap: How the Left & Right get Fooled into Supporting Elite Interests
Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy and the Promise of a Million Utopias
Subscribe for $5/mo to Watch over 50 Patron-Exclusive Films

 

Become a Patron. Support Films For Action.

For $5 a month, you'll gain access to over 50 patron-exclusive documentaries while keeping us ad-free and financially independent. We need 350 more Patrons to grow our team in 2024.

Subscribe | Explore the 50+ Patron Films

Our 6000+ video library is 99% free, ad-free, and entirely community-funded thanks to our patrons!

Availability note:
We have lots of films in our library that are Pay-Per-View only, which aren't available by becoming a Subscriber. 

If you're subscribing to watch a particular film, please check the film's page for access details. Patron Films have this button below the video: