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Louis Theroux: The Settlers 62 min
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
Fourteen years after his first visit and 2011 film The Ultra Zionists, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the West Bank.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace 174 min
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Adam Curtis directs this 3-part series about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built.
Land Rush 58 min
Land Rush (2012)
In 2008, the world’s food system began to fall apart. However, threatened with hunger, rich countries have started buying up and leasing fertile tracts of the developing world.
Earthlings 95 min
Earthlings (2005)
EARTHLINGS is a feature-length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our...
The Corporation 145 min
The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation is today's dominant institution, creating great wealth but also great harm. This 26 award-winning documentary examines the nature, evolution, impacts and future of the...
HyperNormalisation 161 min
HyperNormalisation (2016)
We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis...
Adam Curtis
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage 780 min
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
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.
David Oyster
Schooling the World 66 min
Schooling the World (2010)
If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children.
Carol Black
Inside Job 108 min
Inside Job (2010)
2010 Oscar Winner for Best Documentary, 'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of...
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA 560 min
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
Plutocracy, by filmmaker Scott Noble, is the first documentary series to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class.
The Economics of Happiness 65 min
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic...
Local Futures
The Century of the Self 230 min
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose...
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film 96 min
Purpose: A Wellbeing Economies Film (2026)
Purpose asks the central question of our time: What is the purpose of our economies — and how can we change them? Director Martin Oetting follows two visionaries, Katherine Trebeck...
Martin Oetting
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone 350 min
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone (2022)
An epic documentary by British director Adam Curtis illustrating in seven parts state and decline of the Soviet Union and the development in Russia 1985–1999 using material from the BBC...
Adam Curtis
The Yes Men Fix The World 86 min
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Yes Men Fix the World is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing as top executives of giant corporations, lie their way into big business conferences...
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism 76 min
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political...
Peter Hutchison
The Panama Papers 101 min
The Panama Papers (2020)
Leaked by an anonymous source to journalists in 2015, The Panama Papers were a collection of documents, exposing the use of secretive offshore companies to enable widespread tax evasion...
Alex Winter
Water is Love 61 min
Water is Love (2024)
What if, in the midst of global uncertainty and ecological distress, we chose to focus our attention on the ways people come together—across cultures and continents—to care for life’s...
Ludwig Schramm
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness 94 min
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
Directed by Marc J Francis & Max Pugh, ‘Walk With Me’ is a cinematic and immersive exploration into the world-famous monastery of Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh.
Marc J Francis
Human 382 min
Human (2015)
What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Our curiosity? The quest for discovery?
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections 80 min
Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections (2008)
UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an...
The Great Disconnect 60 min
The Great Disconnect (2020)
We are living in a time that has been described as the age of loneliness. Despite Western advances in technology, living conditions, education and healthcare, we, as a society, are...
Tamer Soliman
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series 146 min
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
If you've ever wanted to understand what neoliberalism is, this is the video series for you.
Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College 68 min
Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)
RE-LEARNING THE LAND is the story of a Blackfoot community in southern Alberta, Canada, and how they have re-taken control of their education system within Red Crow Community College...
Feeding Ourselves 96 min
Feeding Ourselves (2017)
Feeding Ourselves weaves intimate stories from the hopes and convictions of rural BC farmers and producers as they navigate undercurrents of uncertainty with our food system. Their...
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick 75 min
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
One in five Americans, along with millions of children, are prescribed psychiatric drugs daily, and often for a lifetime. MEDICATING NORMAL follows the stories of five high-functioning...
Lynn Cunningham
The Bibi Files 116 min
The Bibi Files (2024) ($4)
Using never-seen-before interrogation footage, this portrayal of Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu and his inner circle provides an unflinching gaze into the private world behind the headlines...
Alexis Bloom
Starsuckers 72 min
Starsuckers (2009) ($5)
Starsuckers is a documentary about our celebrity-obsessed media. It uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid off the corporations and individuals who...
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed 37 min
Raised on Porn: The New Sex Ed (2021)
Raised on Porn exposes the ways pornography has become the new sex education for children and unpacks the dangerous lifelong implications of this global phenomenon. Through riveting...
Resistance 101 50 min
Resistance 101 (2026)
With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These...
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story 101 min
Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)
“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.” - Polly Higgins
Pete Sequoia
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists 59 min
Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)
Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political...
The War You Don't See 98 min
The War You Don't See (2010)
A powerful and timely investigation into the media’s role in war, tracing the history of embedded and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of...
Before the Flood 95 min
Before the Flood (2016) ($4)
Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.
Money & Life 86 min
Money & Life (2013)
Money & Life is a passionate and inspirational essay-style documentary that asks a provocative question: can we see the economic crisis not as a disaster, but as a tremendous opportunity?
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? 177 min
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom? (2007)
The Trap is a series of three films by Bafta-winning producer Adam Curtis (The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares) that explains the origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of...
Adam Curtis
The American Southwest 107 min
The American Southwest (2025)
From the snowclad Rockies to scorching deserts, the Colorado River nourishes wildlife and sculpts legendary landscapes. THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, narrated by Quannah Chasinghorse, is a...
Ben Masters
Affluenza 56 min
Affluenza (1997)
AFFLUENZA diagnoses a serious social disease - caused by consumerism, commercialism and rampant materialism - that is having a devastating impact on our families, communities, and the...
John de Graaf
Emergence From Within 22 min
Emergence From Within (2018)
A raw and reflective exposé of one woman’s journey, interwoven with the wisdom of others to illuminate the broader human experience. Originally from working-class Britain and moving...
Anjula Ram
Blood and Oil 52 min
Blood and Oil (2008)
Blood and Oil offers a riveting look at how U.S. efforts to control the global flow of fossil fuels has led to endless war, alliances with authoritarian regimes like Saudi Arabia, and...
Jeremy Earp
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective 92 min
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
Humanity is more than ever threatened by its own actions; we hear a lot about the need to minimize footprints and to reduce our impact. But what if our footprints were beneficial? What...
Costa Boutsikaris
Earth Days 102 min
Earth Days (2009)
On April 22, 1970, more than 20 million Americans across the country participated in celebrations and demonstrations — the largest in American history — demanding political action to...
Robert Stone
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity 49 min
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
A feature doc with George Monbiot, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Robin Dunbar that explores the current crisis in social connection, juxtaposed with its fascinating historical origins...
Adrian Tanner
Sicko 123 min
Sicko (2007)
The words "health care" and "comedy" aren't usually found in the same sentence, but in Academy Award winning filmmaker Michael Moore's new movie 'SiCKO,' they go together hand in...
The Nature of Cities 40 min
The Nature of Cities (2010)
THE NATURE OF CITIES follows the journey of Professor Timothy Beatley as he explores urban projects around the world, representing the new green movement that hopes to move our urban...
Chuck Davis
Technocalyps 180 min
Technocalyps (2006)
Technocalyps is a three-part documentary series on the notion of transhumanism by Belgian visual artist and filmmaker Frank Theys.
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States 91 min
Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States (2016)
“As long as rabbits don't have historians, history will be written by the hunters.” With the tremendous success of his book, A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn...
Azam Olivier
Bitter Lake 136 min
Bitter Lake (2015)
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new...
The Wisdom To Survive 55 min
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Climate change is here. Will we have the wisdom to survive? The film features thought leaders and activists in the realms of science, economics, and spirituality. The focus: how we can...
John Ankele
Modulations 73 min
Modulations (1998)
Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today's most exciting sounds.
Israel’s Reel Extremism 40 min
Israel’s Reel Extremism (2025)
Critics have called this original Zeteo documentary a ‘gut-punching’, ‘extraordinary investigation’ that you must watch to truly ‘see Israel’.
A Farm For The Future 48 min
A Farm For The Future (2008)
More than 96 per cent of all the food grown in Britain is reliant on synthetic fertiliser. Without it there would be serious trouble. But without artificial fertiliser there's not...
How Israel Won the West 74 min
How Israel Won the West (2024)
How Israel Won the West examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world. It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical...
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public 32 min
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
The media regularly use public opinion polls in their reporting of important news stories. But how exactly do they report them and to what end? In this insightful and accessible...
Susan Ericsson
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? 61 min
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Opening with a powerful ‘deep time’ perspective, from the beginning of the Earth to our present moment, BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's new film recognises the fundamental...
Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century 119 min
Human Resources: Social Engineering In The 20th Century (2010)
Human Resources explores the rise of mechanistic philosophy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarchical systems.
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations 360 min
Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)
"Scott Noble may have outdone himself with Counter Intelligence. The Psywar filmmaker amassed a tour de force of power elite and deep state scholars weighing in and synthesizing decades...
The Stars at Night 54 min
The Stars at Night (2023)
The Stars at Night is a journey of young filmmakers, experts, artists and writers to the darkest skies around the world in a quest to re-discover the connection human storytelling has...
Elizabeth Buckley
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics 87 min
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009)
The definitive documentary explaining the influence of money on politics by Jonathan Shockley. If you like it, consider buying the high quality DVD or donating a few $ at...
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil 51 min
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into cost-effective solutions that can...
Giovanni Vaz Del Bello
5 Broken Cameras 86 min
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village...
Boycott 73 min
Boycott (2021)
As a wave of anti-boycott legislation has swept through the country, so has a counter-wave in defense of freedom of speech. Everyday Americans are challenging these laws for their...
Julia Bacha
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 97 min
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010)
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a...
The Riot Report 114 min
The Riot Report (2024)
When Black neighborhoods in scores of cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders —...
Michelle Ferrari
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States 104 min
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)
"In a time when many are questioning institutional integrity across society, seeking accurate and relevant information to help make sense of our supposedly post-truth era, Noble shines a...
Scott Noble
For The Next 7 Generations 84 min
For The Next 7 Generations (2009)
In 2004, thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers from all four corners, moved by their concern for our planet, came together at a historic gathering, where they decided to form an alliance: The...
It's Revolution or Death 80 min
It's Revolution or Death (2025)
Revolution or Death is a three-part collaboration between Peter Gelderloos and subMedia. Part 1, 'Short Term Investments,’ examines the official response to the climate crisis and how...
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice 73 min
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Today, there are more Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. The prison population has exploded by 500%...
Imperial Japan, the Bomb & the Pacific Powder Keg 27 min
Imperial Japan, the Bomb & the Pacific Powder Keg
Obama’s high-profile trip to Hiroshima was accompanied by a media storm that gave endless justifications for the US use of the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians. The myths are widely...
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity 75 min
The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)
“The Twelve” tells the story of twelve spiritual Elders from around the globe. By interviewing each one of them in their home environments, the film is told exclusively through the...
Lucy Martens
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis 3000 min
Awakening from the Meaning Crisis (2019)
Do you ever feel like we're swimming in an ocean of bullshit? This ground-breaking and viral 50-part series from John Vervaeke seeks to understand why this is so, and answer the...
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life 60 min
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and...
Stephen R. Kellert
Gather 74 min
Gather (2020)
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the...
Sanjay Rawal
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! 61 min
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Staging Post follows two Afghan Hazara refugees, Muzafar and Khadim. Stuck in Indonesia after Australia 'stopped the boats' and facing many years in limbo, they built a community and...
Seeing Beautiful 60 min
Seeing Beautiful (2024)
A deeply personal and reflective cross-cultural journey unpacking the quiet yet powerful forces shaping women’s relationship with beauty. Through authentic, vulnerable sharing and...
Anjula Ram
We Are Many 105 min
We Are Many (2020)
On February 15th, 2003, up to 30 million people, many of whom had never demonstrated before, came out in nearly 800 cities around the world to protest against the impending Iraq War. We...
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom 90 min
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
A secret museum in an art hotel sparks intrigue when it's revealed to be a creation of controversial artist, Banksy. Using art as a form of political resistance, the hotel highlights the...
Watermelon Pictures
Planet of the Humans 100 min
Planet of the Humans (2019)
A Note from Films For Action (Last Updated 5/26/2020):  While we believe the film is worthy of a good critique, we don't support the campaign to have the film removed from...
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature 83 min
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Fly By Light is an intimate exploration of young people seeking to overcome the violence in their lives and create a new path for their future by connecting to a world outside their...
Ellie Walton
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces 70 min
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT...
Melissa Young
The Divided Brain 79 min
The Divided Brain (2019)
THE DIVIDED BRAIN is a mind-altering odyssey about one scientist's quest to prove a growing imbalance in our brains and to help us understand how this makes us increasingly unable to...
Manfred Becker
Accidental Anarchist 86 min
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior...
Rachel Carson 115 min
Rachel Carson (2017)
When Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed...
Michelle Ferrari
Carnage 65 min
Carnage (2017)
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what...
Zeitgeist: Addendum 123 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)
Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in...
The One Percent 80 min
The One Percent (2006)
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical...
Sustainable 92 min
Sustainable (2018)
A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America's food system, from the agricultural issues we face - soil loss, water depletion, climate change, pesticide...
Matt Wechsler
Salmon Confidential 69 min
Salmon Confidential (2013)
Salmon Confidential is a film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon are testing positive for...
The Urbal Fix: Creating Truly Sustainable Cities 60 min
The Urbal Fix: Creating Truly Sustainable Cities
A solution-oriented film about creating sustainable and democratic cities.
Israelism 84 min
Israelism (2023)
When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young...
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 157 min
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist...
The Brainwashing of My Dad 90 min
The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)
What happened to Dad? As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers...
Jen Senko
Climate Stories NC 4 min
Climate Stories NC
Climate Stories NC seeks to capture the voices of North Carolinians whose lives have been affected by changes in the climate. These are their stories.
Slavery by Another Name 85 min
Slavery by Another Name (2012)
Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation...
South of The Border 77 min
South of The Border (2010)
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political...
Oliver Stone
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future 85 min
Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)
Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own...
HOME 93 min
HOME (2009)
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the...
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man 52 min
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man (2006)
Thomas Sankara rose to power in Burkina Faso in a popularly supported coup in 1983. To symbolize this rebirth, he renamed his country from the French colonial Upper Volta to Burkina...
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours 110 min
The Commons: Reclaiming What Is Ours (2019)
The Commons is a documentary film about communities re-asserting sustainable futures using consensus, equity and shared resources – ancient Commons principles.
Kevin Hansen
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California 105 min
Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)
California once had more linguistic variety than all of Europe. “Language Keepers” is a 6-part series following four Indigenous communities in California who are working to revitalize...
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