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The Joke Is on Us
The Joke Is on Us
The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his supporters fuels the solidification of fascism.
Chris Hedges
"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
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.
Films For Action
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
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World
A more beautiful, egalitarian and regenerative world is possible. Take this library and use it to inspire global change!
Tim Hjersted
The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything
The Circle of Life: How Doughnut Economics Could Change Everything
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
George Monbiot
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...
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex
Have you ever encountered a baby whose gender is unknown to you?
Steve Bearman
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
The Conflicting Way Women Relate to Sex (And How to Overcome It)
The Conflicting Way Women Relate to Sex (And How to Overcome It)
Men are obsessed with sex, according to this article by Steve Bearman in Elephant Journal (and re-posted on this website). Men are thought to think about sex all the time, and allowed to...
Nina Koevoets
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization
I’m sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city’s heroin district. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh grunge-punk...
Douglas Haddow
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
Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy: A Contribution by Yavor Tarinski
Bookchin and the Legacy of Direct Democracy: A Contribution by Yavor Tarinski
[Murray Bookchin] was a true son of the Enlightenment in his respect for clear thought and moral responsibility and in his honest, uncompromising search for a realistic hope.
Yavor Tarinski
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
The White Man in That Photo
The White Man in That Photo
Sometimes photographs deceive. Take this one, for example. It represents John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s rebellious gesture the day they won medals for the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer...
Riccardo Gazzaniga
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
7 Reasons Not to Rake Your Leaves
Fall leaves are not a nuisance. They’re part of the natural ecosystem, providing free mulch and fertilizer, wildlife habitat, and a beautiful array of butterflies and birds in the spring.
Return to Now
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’
While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and...
George Lakey
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
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling.
David Cain
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
Chomsky's Assistant of 24 Years: "I Saw Every Message He Sent"
Chomsky's Assistant of 24 Years: "I Saw Every Message He Sent"
This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain...
Bev Stohl
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History 101 min
Israel & Palestine: The Complete Unbiased History
A one hour and 40 minute overview.
LJ
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
FIFA Counts Goals, Mexicans Count the Disappeared
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World Cup as it kicks off in Mexico City on...
Tamara Pearson
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s Suicide Pact
America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire.
Chris Hedges
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...
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
What Is Wrong With the American Left: The Abandonment of Class
I write this not as an enemy of the left but as someone who believes it has lost the thread of its own best tradition. That tradition is the democratic socialism of Eduard Bernstein, who...
David Schultz
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
The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves
"When working-class people (or their upper-class idols) argue that the rich must get richer to properly motivate the rich, but the poor must stay poor or else they will lose all...
Yasha Levine
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Touch Isolation: How Homophobia Has Robbed All Men Of Touch
Homophobic prohibitions against male touch are hurting straight men as well.
Mark Greene
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
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
No issue may be more contentious or more misunderstood than the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Hatred, fear, religion, politics, propaganda, media misinformation, and decades of...
Tim Hjersted
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Debunking Gad Saad's "Suicidal Empathy" Theory
Gad Saad’s “suicidal empathy” thesis is the kind of shallow culture-war framing that sounds clever in a tweet but falls apart when you look at it seriously.
Tim Hjersted
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
Yes, There Is An Alternative to Capitalism: Mondragon Shows the Way
There is no alternative ("Tina") to capitalism?
Richard Wolff
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
10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class
10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class
We all know male revolutionaries like Che Guevara, but history often tends to gloss over the contributions of female revolutionaries that have sacrificed their time, efforts, and lives...
Kathleen Harris
Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too
Queer Muslims Exist - and We Are in Mourning Too
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Samra Habib
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
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”
The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival...
Russell Means
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.
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