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"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked) 12 min
"Socialism Always Fails": A Dishonest Claim (3 Times It Worked)
"Socialism Always Fails" is a claim I hear frequently. More often than not, when someone deploys this quip, it's meant to end any further conversation about socialism so they don't have...
overzealots
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green 23 min
Nonviolent Communication For Beginners | How to NVC | Kat Green
Whether conversing with friends, family, spouses, teachers, bosses or employees, the methods in which we’ve learned to communicate often fail us. There is much misspoken/misunderstood...
kat green
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.
AI Panic Isn’t New — or About AI 14 min
AI Panic Isn’t New — or About AI
Every time a new technology arrives, we’re told it will change everything — and not for the better.
Lynch the Historian
It Get's Better 8 min
It Get's Better
As part of the "It Gets Better Project", gay and lesbian employees of Pixar, Apple, Google, and the White House share their stories of growing up in a homophobic country.  Many faced...
PixGetsBetter
How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video 9 min
How Filmmakers Should Actually Be Using AI Video
I hated the process of making AI videos, but I couldn't ignore how powerful it was getting. These are the 5 tips I figured out as a filmmaker without surrendering my creative process...
Herman Huang
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...
It's Official: Iran Won the War, and the US Lost. This Is How 29 min
It's Official: Iran Won the War, and the US Lost. This Is How
The US government has signed an agreement to end its war on Iran. It is now widely admitted that Washington lost, and Tehran won. Ben Norton explains why Donald Trump failed, and how...
Geopolitical Economy Report
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
Intro to Permaculture 90 min
Intro to Permaculture
This is an 18 part 90 minute intro to permaculture webinar with Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture in Illinois. Bill has been teaching permaculture for 6 years. He holds 2 PDC...
Midwest Permaculture
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen 17 min
You Need To See This Incredible 17–Minute Film Set Entirely On A Teen’s Computer Screen
Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, illustrates the flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture more clearly than...
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...
Why Fascism Fails 106 min
Why Fascism Fails
Fascism keeps returning because, in moments of crisis, it makes a seductive promise: order, unity, national rebirth, a strong hand to cut through the chaos. The record of what it...
Then & Now
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
We Sat AOC Down With Republican Voters. Can She Win Them Over? 15 min
We Sat AOC Down With Republican Voters. Can She Win Them Over?
We brought AOC to deep red Georgia to talk data centers.
More Perfect Union
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...
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems 445 min
Planet Local Voices Series: 33 Voices United by a Vision of Ecological Economies, Healthy Communities and Local Food Systems
Planet Local Voices is video and podcast series featuring cutting-edge thinkers, writers, movement-builders and activists from across the world, united by a planet local vision of...
Local Futures (Economics of Happiness)
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
Voices from the Gaslands - Australia 2 min
Voices from the Gaslands - Australia
Voices from the Gaslands is a series of short videos of people whose lives and businesses have been damaged by the coal seam gas industry in Queensland, Australia. The videos showcase...
Lock the Gate Alliance
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 Case for Solarpunk 37 min
The Case for Solarpunk
Solarpunk is an aesthetic and genre which envisions a sustainable future built around social and ecological resilience. It often includes concepts such as renewable energy, rewilding &...
SolarpunkAlana
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History 101 min
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History
A one hour and 40 minute overview.
LJ
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity 57 min
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity
From Shakti Butler, the director of The Way Home: Women Talk About Race in America and Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible , comes a new film that asks America to talk about...
WorldTrustTV
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...
How Liberals Monetized Trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and Identity Politics 37 min
How Liberals Monetized Trauma | Catherine Liu on Marx, Trump, and Identity Politics
Catherine Liu challenges performative activism, liberal elites, and the "woke" narrative.
The Institute of Art and Ideas
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
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 Parts 113 min
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 Parts
This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s  “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com
PIX11 News
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
Israel’s War Machine 104 min
Israel’s War Machine
A thorough breakdown of the US-Israel alliance — how it works, who benefits, and why it persists despite being so clearly at odds with international law and basic human rights.
LJ
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
EPIC RANT: Kyle Kulinski's HONEST MESSAGE to Joe Rogan about Trump vs Kamala 15 min
EPIC RANT: Kyle Kulinski's HONEST MESSAGE to Joe Rogan about Trump vs Kamala
In this clip from our recent exclusive interview with Kyle Kulinski of "Secular Talk", we discuss Joe Rogan of "The Joe Rogan Experience", and how the left can connect with the people in...
The Vanguard
Life at a Walmart Sweatshop 13 min
Life at a Walmart Sweatshop
In China, factory workers live in dorms owned by Walmart - workers pay rent and utilities.  If they move out of the dorms to live in a place not connected to Walmart, they still have to...
Anna Ruby
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
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated Like This 3 min
I've Never Seen the Israel / Palestine Conflict Illustrated Like This
The story shared by Israel and Palestine has been told in several stunning films, but I don't think I've ever seen it told like this.
Nina Paley
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
Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object? 3 min
Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?
How do you like to spend your life? What do you desire? What if money didn't matter? What if money was no object? What would you like to do if money were no object?
Edgar Alves
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...
After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day 2 min
After I Watched This, I Put My Phone Down for the Rest of the Day
Oops.
charstarleneTV
What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism? 14 min
What Happens to Rich People Under Socialism?
It's a common misconception that socialists want to...ahem...*bonk* the rich. So what do we really want to do? Come learn about how socialist societies treat those with wealth and power!
Second Thought
These Incredible Stories Remind Us of Our Better Selves 36 min
These Incredible Stories Remind Us of Our Better Selves
#WhoWeAre is a campaign to share the stories of people whose actions show us compassion and to send a message of empathy, hope and optimism.
Grocery Store Wars 6 min
Grocery Store Wars
Store Wars is a hilarious five minute mini-movie about a small band of organic vegetable puppets -- Cuke Skywalker, Ham Solo, Chewbroccoli and wise old Obi Wan Cannoli -- battling...
b3108
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...
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2) 113 min
Black Lives That Still Matter: The Deaths Behind the Movement in 24 parts (ch. 2)
This compilation of videos is mostly based on research done for Michael Harriot’s  “A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’- Rising” for theroot.com
ABC News
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...
Matt Walsh IS Racist 36 min
Matt Walsh IS Racist
I'm glad you asked, Matt. - The Soy Pill
The Soy Pill
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...
How Trump Is Building an American Dictatorship 31 min
How Trump Is Building an American Dictatorship
How do you build a dictatorship inside a democracy? Not with tanks in the streets, but by quietly reshaping who the security forces answer to — and why. Brendan Miller lays out a...
Brendan Miller
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.
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil 35 min
Why Every Single Billionaire Is Evil
Billionaires can't exist without exploitation, so here's why that makes ALL billionaires are inherently evil... along with plenty of other things.
Ben Durham
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
Tao Te Ching: The Book Of The Way by Lao Tzu, Translated by Stephen Mitchell (Audiobook) 103 min
Tao Te Ching: The Book Of The Way by Lao Tzu, Translated by Stephen Mitchell (Audiobook)
One of the greatest works of classic literature. Lao Tzu shares timeless wisdom with the world. . . . Traditionally attributed to Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, the true authorship of the...
Nervous Nerd
Billionaires’ Shocking Plan to Silence Working-Class Voters 14 min
Billionaires’ Shocking Plan to Silence Working-Class Voters
50% of voters say being forced to show a passport would be a barrier to voting, according to a new poll we conducted.
More Perfect Union
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
How the US Uses Oil as a Geopolitical Weapon 38 min
How the US Uses Oil as a Geopolitical Weapon
Oil has been at the center of the war on Iran. Ben Norton explains how the United States became the biggest oil producer on Earth, and how the US empire uses petroleum as a geopolitical...
Geopolitical Economy Report
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...
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