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Big Ideas
Why Mushrooms Are Starting To Replace Everything
We NEED To Nationalize 70% of the Economy
Churning the Earth (2024)
Artificial Creativity: Has AI Stolen Our Creative Soul?
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
The People's Library: An Economy Beyond Scarcity
What If You Didn’t Need a Paycheck to Live? A Short Introduction to the People's Library
Our Coming Cyberpunk Dictatorship (Snow Crash)
Free For All: The Public Library (trailer)
Finding the Money (2023)
What If We Ran The Economy?
Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystem Regeneration | Daniel Wahl
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
The Great Simplification (2022)
Why I left the Democratic Party #WalkAway
Vote Like A Radical
A New Economy | New Business Models for a Cooperative Future
The REAL Tragedy of the Commons
The Importance of Cultural Values for Meaningful Change
Appalachian Community Meal and Mutual Aid Network
Worker Democracy
Honest Government Ad | AI
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World
The Interrelated Structure of Reality (trailer)
It's Basic (trailer)
Try Psychedelics, Access Transcendence | James Fadiman
The Sacredness of Twoness | Lyla June Johnston
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood
Charles Eisenstein: Life is a Gift
SolarPunk Cities: Our Last Hope?
How To Build A Solarpunk City
Imprint (2023)
Zeitgeist | Requiem by Peter Joseph (trailer)
Trailers
Patron Documentaries
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
We Are Many (2020)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Affluenza (1997)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
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A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (trailer)
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Earthlings (2005)
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)
Religulous (trailer)
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
Combat Obscura (2019) ($7)
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Endgame 2050: Humanity's Last Chance Is Now (2020)
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How Monopolies Secretly Steal Your Freedom (ft. Lina Khan)
Pee in the Shower to Save Water
Modulations (1998)
DINNER FOR FEW (Short Film)
Listen to The Wire Creator David Simon Explode Lies with Truth. It Made My Jaw Hit the Floor.
2040: Join The Regeneration (trailer)
The Fisherman and the Banker (2024) ($9)
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Gasland (trailer)
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Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
475 (2013)
Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)
Water is Love (2024)
Childhood 2.0: The Living Experiment (2020)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
The Corporation (2003)
Fairytales of Growth (2020)
Tucker VISITS GAZA REFUGEES, Slams Israel for "MASS MURDER"
Man in His Arrogance - a Great Speech by Carl Sagan
Before You Have Sex, Watch This
How This Corporation Secretly Poisoned Our Food, Water, and Blood
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Why the Future Is Post-Growth | Donnie Maclurcan on Life Beyond Capitalism
What If We Went Scorched Earth On Trump | Matthew Cooke
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
I Went to Space and Discovered an Enormous Lie | Ron Garan
Schooling the World (2010)
Democracy At Work: How This One Idea Could Make Your Job Amazing
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Plasticized (2011)
Black Gold: Your Coffee Will Never Taste The Same Again (trailer)
The Racism of the US Criminal Justice System in 10 Charts
The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)
Disobedience: The Courage To Break Free (2016)
Systemic Racism: Is That Really a Thing?
Eyes Wide Open (2009)
Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul
The Mad World of Donald Trump (2016)
Fed Up (2014)
The Vanishing of The Bees (trailer)
Fast Fashion: The Shady World of Cheap Clothing (2022)
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen
Breaking: Trump Plots Assassination Of Americans | The Kyle Kulinski Show
US Influence in Latin America Grows: Nazi-tied, Pro-Israel, Anti-China Candidate Wins Chile Election
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Fabled Enemies (2008)
Will This Documentary Put Keir Starmer Behind Bars?
Charlie Kirk and the Conservative Death Cult
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)
Guardians of the Earth: A Film about the Paris Agreement (2017)
Israelism (2023)
Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)
George Monbiot on Neoliberalism: "A Self-Serving Racket"
TraumaZone
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
The Political Spectrum is a Myth
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
How to Kill People and Get Away With It *using AI* (W/ Antony Lowenstein)
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Norman Finkelstein: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech
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