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“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

- Lilla Watson, Aboriginal elder, activist and educator from Queensland, Australia.

Documentaries that Inspire Ecological Consciousness

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (2015)

The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

Singapore: Biophilic City (2012)

The Superior Human? (2012)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

The Importance of Rites of Passage

Imperialism

Hope is a Verb

Despair Is Not a Strategy: 15 Principles of Hope

It's Hopeless, What a Relief! (A Letter for the Hopeless)

Be an Island Crystal of Hope In These Times of Profound Global Turbulence

Hope vs. Fear - Motivation for Change - Anjali Appadurai

Jane Goodall - Sowing the Seeds of Hope

Resilience: The Biology Of Stress And The Science Of Hope (trailer)

Strategies of Hope: How Americans Can Fight Hate Under Trump

Give Up Hope: It's The Best Chance We Have to Save Everything We Love

Rojava’s Democratic, Feminist Revolution a Source of Hope among Horror

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

The Bodhisattva’s Approach to Activism: A Little Courageous Wisdom to Face a World Gone Mad

Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

Intersections of Science and Spirituality

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

The Realist Approach to The Afterlife: Living On Through Memory and Deeds

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

The Other Way of Knowing

The Present Need of the World (1926)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

All Is Self (2019)

The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)

Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature (2008)

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

My Spirituality as an Atheist

Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

War Is Always Justified

Charles Eisenstein

Pathological Consumption Has Become So Normalised That We Scarcely Notice It

George Monbiot

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)

David Cain

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

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

Daniel Quinn

Understanding Patriarchy

bell hooks

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Teri Lynn

A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality

Sandew Hira

One Man’s Journey: How I Stopped Watching Porn for A Year and Why I’m Not Going Back

Dan Mahle

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

Carol Black

The 12 Most Common Fallacious Gun Arguments - Refuted by a Responsible Gun Owner

Michael E Sparks

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Chris Hedges

The Demoralized Mind

John Schumaker

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

Miki Kashtan

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

Tim Hjersted

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

27 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Tim Hjersted

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

Tim Hjersted

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

Tim Hjersted

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The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

100 Short Films to Expand Your Consciousness

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

90 Inspiring, Visionary Films That Will Change How You See the World in Profound Ways

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

13 Films about Post-Growth Economics

27 Documentaries About War That the US Government Doesn't Want You to See

Top 15 Documentaries That Explain Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Was Born

Raising Children

Ten Ways We Misunderstand Children

Ten Alternatives to Time-Outs

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008) ($5)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)

"Good" Children - At What Price? The Secret Cost of Shame

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

How To Bore The Children

Cultivating Self-Awareness in Parents

Kids Gone Wild - Forest Kindergartens Build Trust and Connect Children with Nature

Children Full of Life (2003)

Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School

Is This the World We Want to Offer the Children of the 21st Century?

Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it

Schooling the World (2010)

Play Again (trailer)

The Case Against Grades

The Case Against Competition

Please Teach Your Children About Corporate Criminals

Meet the School That Hates Rules

No Child Left Inside: Unplug Your Kids and Kick Them Outside!

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love

Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food

Communication Skills

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonviolent Communication Basics (2000)

How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently

How to Be a Great Listener

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

If You Want to Say Thank You, Don't Say Sorry - And 6 Other Examples of Beautiful Communication

Alan Alda on the Importance of Clear Communication

The Four Mantras of True Presence

What It Means To Communicate

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

8 Ways to Master the Art of Mindful Communication

5 Steps to Improve Your Child's Communication Skills

Increasing Our Capacity to Feel Is Essential to Living Our Best Life and Connecting with Our Kids. Here's How.

Thich Nhat Hanh: No Enemies

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Speak Up: How to Respond to Everyday Bigotry

Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy

Rebel Wisdom

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

Identity & Empathy | Ayishat Akanbi

Music, Culture & Race | Greg Thomas

The Religious Wars of the Pandemic Endgame | Rebel Wisdom

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

Addicted to Ideology? | Gabor Maté

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

Rogan, CNN, Ivermectin & Heterodox Thinking | Zubin Damania

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Rebel Wisdom: Where Gillette Went Wrong

An Epidemic of Control: Charles Eisenstein

"A Glitch in the Matrix" - Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream Media (2018)

Glitch in the Matrix II, The Origin of the Intellectual Dark Web (2019)

Take Back Your Attention From The Social Media Algorithms

Is It Time to Change Course on Covid? | William Eden

Unlearning Race? | Thomas Chatterton Williams

If We Don't Fix Sensemaking, We Won't Survive | Daniel Schmachtenberger

Success, Culture & Race | Coleman Hughes

The Big Picture

Fall and Winter (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Why We Need Big Picture Activism

Money & Life (2013)

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Engines of Domination: Political Power & The Human Emergency - Director's Cut (2018)

The Corporation (2003)

Requiem For The American Dream (2015)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

Unity (2015) ($13)

Human (2015)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

PLANETARY (2015) ($1)

Trending Documentaries

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From the Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning (1992)

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Fairytales of Growth (2020)

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Spin: Footage You Were Never Supposed to See (1995)

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The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006)

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India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

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Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action

What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember

Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies

To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War on Gaza: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

The Story That's Destroying the World

To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate

The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire

Friendly Reminder: Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted

All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself

When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society

Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why

There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist

Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

Radical Kindness Is Liberating

A Deep-Roots Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want

The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There

On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities

Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism

What Social Change Activists Can Too Easily Forget

Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About

We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?

If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical

My Favorite Definition of Privilege

If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.

"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Divide the Working Class and Create Racial Hierarchy. It's Time to Give It Up.

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A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013) ($5)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019) ($5)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011) ($5)

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020) ($5)

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021) ($5)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014) ($5)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997) ($5)

Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997) ($5)

Redefining Prosperity (2018) ($5)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001) ($5)

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Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003) ($5)

GIFT (2018) ($5)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019) ($5)

Blood and Oil (2008) ($5)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008) ($5)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

Israel & Palestine Coverage

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

On Israel-Gaza & the Corrupting Media Dynamic of “Audience Capture” | Glenn Greenwald

I Watched The Hamas Massacre Film. Here's My Thoughts. | Owen Jones

Pope Calls Israeli Army Terrorists | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Don't Turn Away: This Video Shows the Reality of Israel's War on Gaza

The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

I’m Jewish. I Want a Ceasefire in Gaza. | Dave Zirin

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

"Self-Hating Jew" Explains Why Israel Has No Right...

Dr. Gabor Mate: This Is Genocide

Yes, Israel is an Apartheid State. Perhaps an Analogy Will Be Useful Here.

Will Lebanon Go to War to Save Gaza? w/ Rania Khalek & Abby Martin

Piers Morgan is Wrong

Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

Tory MP Threatens To Prosecute UK Govt Over Israeli War Crimes

Amnesty International Finds "Damning Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 6,500

Hamas — Israel’s Useful Enemy

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Israel’s Culture of Deceit

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

The Palestinian Horror Story The Media Hides From You

Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas (2018)

Israel & The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Kyle REACTS To Horrifying Deranged Israel & Palestine Takes | The Kyle Kulinski Show

Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel

Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel

Films We're Hosting for Free, In The Spirit of the Gift, in Partnership with the Filmmakers

Together We Grow (2022)

Project Censored The Movie: Ending The Reign of Junk Food News (2013)

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion (2020)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Esteem: The Power of Vulnerability (2016)

Surviving Earth (2014)

New Member Submissions

I'm a Rhino (2023) (2023)

The Hamas Attack and Israel's War in Gaza

Charles Eisenstein: Life is a Gift

War Is Always Justified

Will Lebanon Go to War to Save Gaza? w/ Rania Khalek & Abby Martin

The Hidden History of Israel: Jewish Professor Avi Shlaim meets Palestinian Author Ghada Karmi

Wisdom from The Elders: An Open Letter to President Biden on Israel and Palestine

DEBUNKED: Where Is Palestine’s MLK?

"In My Name, I Want No Vengeance." - The Call of Michal Halev

What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"

HeadSpin! Rewrite the Rules of the Money Game (2023)

Don't Turn Away: This Video Shows the Reality of Israel's War on Gaza

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