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Anti-Racism
Indigenous Knowledge
The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education
The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship
Indigenous Principles of a Just Transition
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous
Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists
Rights VS Responsibilities: "In Our Language, We Don't Have a Word for Rights. We Have Words for Responsibility."
Defend the Sacred Manifesto
Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly
It's Taken Thousands of Years, but Western Science Is Finally Catching up to Traditional Knowledge
Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
Why Cultural Diversity Is as Essential to Human Survival as Biological Diversity
Arkan Lushwala Shares Indigenous Wisdom: The Earth Is Our Mother
The Other Way of Knowing
The Western Idea of Private Property Is Flawed. Indigenous Peoples Have It Right
Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (trailer)
Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure
An Indigenous Approach to Healing Trauma
10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society
Standing Rock Wisdom: How Sacred, Nonviolent Activism Has the Power to Succeed
Biocultural Rights: A New Paradigm for Protecting Natural and Cultural Resources of Indigenous Communities
Red Cry (2013)
Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction
The Rights of Nature: Indigenous Philosophies Reframing Law
Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?
Tribal Revival: The Tribal Basis Of The Next Civilization
Maori Elder Rose Pere Speaks and Sings for the 2015 Parliament Indigenous Plenary
Trending Documentaries
How to Make a Fascist (2025)
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
HyperNormalisation (2016)
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Tests Military Tech on Palestinians (2025)
The Century of the Self (2002)
The Secret of Oz (2009)
Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade (2016)
The Cross of the Moment (2015)
Muslim in Trump's America (2020)
America's War On Abortion (2020)
This Is Neoliberalism | 5 Part Series (2020)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Down in the Hole - The Streets of Baltimore (2015)
PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is The Mind (2010)
Possum Living (1980)
The War You Don't See (2010)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Basic Income (2008)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)
The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? (2012)
Water is Love (2024)
Fabled Enemies (2008)
The Power of Friendship: Social Contact and The Future of Humanity (2025)
Economics for People (2019)
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
Earthlings (2005)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Israel’s Reel Extremism (2025)
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017) ($6)
The Age of Disconnection (2018)
Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
The Need to GROW (2019) ($6)
The End of Poverty (2009)
Plutocracy: The History of Class War In The USA (2019)
The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025)
Modulations (1998)
Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
PressPausePlay (2011)
Symphony of the Soil (2012) ($6)
The Market Gardener's Toolkit (2018) ($5)
MILKED: White Lies In Dairy Land (2022) ($3)
We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (2021)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013) ($3)
The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
The Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs (2011)
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism (2016)
The Next Industrial Revolution (2002)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)
The Monopoly On Violence (2020)
Israel Vs Israel: A Film About Israeli Peace Activists (2010)
The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)
The Reality of Me (2011)
The Ultimate History Lesson: A Weekend with John Taylor Gatto
They're Trying to Kill Us (2023)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Obesity Nation: How America is Eating itself to Death (2024)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
Carnage (2017)
Separated Interbeings | Volume 1 (2023)
Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of Balance (1982)
American Blackout (2006)
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)
Grass: A Marijuana History (1999) ($5)
Separated Interbeings | Volume 2 (2023)
The Silent Summer: Why Are Insects Dying? (2019)
Praying for Armageddon (2024)
InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)
Technocalyps (2006)
All the Time in the World: Disconnecting to Reconnect (2014) ($5)
Money Talks: Profits Over Patient Safety (2006)
Food, Inc. 2 (2024) ($7)
Evicted: The Hidden Homeless
The Encampments (2025) ($5)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
The War on Thinking in America (2025)
The Worst Thing (2019) ($2)
The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)
13TH (2016)
The Promise of Biomimicry (2020)
9/11: Blueprint for Truth (2010)
WitchHunt (2019)
The Brainwashing of My Dad (2015)
The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2004)
Generation Like (2014)
Natural Farming With Masanobu Fukuoka: Minimal Effort And Abundant Yields
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)
Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)
Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Patron Exlusive Films
Films for a Wiser Earth
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Medicating Normal: How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick (2021)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
We Are Many (2020)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
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How to Make a Fascist (2025)
239 min - This epic four hour doumentary explores the "ingredients" that contributed to the rise of fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. It argues that fascism wasn't a simple anomaly but emerged from a complex mix of historical, social, and psychological...
These Are the Worst Pirates on Earth
30 min - The US government is seizing oil tankers and stealing Venezuela's crude. Donald Trump boasted that the USA will "keep" the oil and the ships. This is piracy. Ben Norton explains how Washington is blatantly violating international law in its imperialist war...
The 60 Minutes Story the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See
14 min - This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk.
The Epstein Files Are Way Worse Than You Think | The Kyle Kulinski Show
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Why I'm Done With Twitter | Kat Abughazaleh
4 min - I'm sick of using a website that rewards white supremacy, is swarmed with bots, and doesn't even work. So as of today, I'm no longer using it. You can find us literally anywhere else. And if you want to support a candidate who puts their money where their...
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (2025)
62 min - 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. Louis Theroux spends time with the growing community of Israeli...
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980)
780 min - 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. The series was written by Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan , and Steven Soter , with...
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)
76 min - Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political and economic philosophy of our time. Yet despite capturing both major...
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Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse
Michelle Ellner - Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.
What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America
Martina Moneke - Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been reduced to a spectacle of distraction, dead trees, credit card receipts...
The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful
James Zogby - In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first intended for the poor, the hungry, the downtrodden, and the rejected.
Can We Cure Ourselves of the Deadly Viruses of Greed and Militarism?
Jeff Vogel - ​The sicknesses that caused the Iraq War and the Wall Street crash are alive and well in American society, mutating from administration to administration.
'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses
Julia Conley - The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
Films For Action - Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can envision a thousand ways that humanity might destroy itself...
In Defense of Noam Chomsky
Tim Hjersted - The establishment would be delighted to see the left do their work for them. It falls to those who refuse to participate in guilt-by-association politics to make the case for intellectual honesty and proportional judgment.
Neoliberalism—The Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems
George Monbiot - Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all.
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