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Most Watched Documentaries

The Yes Men Fix The World (2009)

86,018 views

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

108,784 views

Subconscious War (2011)

146,878 views

Inside Job (2010)

556,600 views

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

80,149 views

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

62,457 views

Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019)

94,017 views

American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian (2000)

148,804 views

Mark Corske's Engines of Domination (2014)

58,565 views

The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)

60,184 views

Money & Life (2013)

96,174 views

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

53,244 views

Miss Representation (2011)

55,096 views

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

41,650 views

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

73,509 views

Affluenza (1997)

41,919 views

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists (2011)

43,772 views

Rebel Architecture (2014)

75,394 views

Slavery by Another Name (2012)

75,085 views

Rise Like Lions: OWS and the Seeds of Revolution (2011)

49,843 views

In Transition 2.0: A Story of Resilience & Hope in Extraordinary Times (2012)

45,121 views

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

141,025 views

The Norden - Police (2014)

41,451 views

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

66,880 views

Anti-Fascist Activism & The Value of Nonviolence

How to Smash Neo-Nazi Events

The Strategic Naiveté of Antifa

Why the Moral Argument for Nonviolence Matters

How to Take on Fascism Without Getting Played

Can Antifa Build an Effective Broad-Based Anti-Fascist Movement?

Why Black Bloc Tactics Won't Build a Successful Movement

Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Future of America: Using Science to Progress Past Tribalism

How (Not) to Challenge Racist Violence

Former White Supremacist: Why Punching Nazis in the Face Is a Bad Idea

How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State

We Need a Revolution: Overcoming Fascism with a Movement of Love

How Should We Protest Neo-Nazis? Lessons From German History

The Cult of Violence Always Kills the Left

Don't Feed the Trolls — How to Combat the Alt-Right

Towards a Tranformative Anti-Fascism

It's Time to Go on the Offensive Against Racism

Why Nazis Are so Afraid of These Clowns

Small German Town Tricks Neo-Nazis Into Marching Against Themselves

The Hard Left Antifa And Their Call To Arms (2018)

Violence Brought Us Trump, It's Not How We Will Stop Him

Popular Videos

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Naomi Klein on How to Jam the Trump Brand

Inside Job (2010)

Capitalism Will Eat Democracy Unless We Speak Up

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

How Did Hitler Rise to Power?

Robert Smalls: An American Hero

Transitions For Society: Job Guarantee and Basic Income (2014)

Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Footprint of War (2008)

This Is What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Brain

The Right to Save Seed

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Monty Python Explains Occupy Wall St. in 3 Minutes

Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (2006)

Forest Man

Who is Peter Joseph?

Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003)

Whitewashed: Unmasking the World of Whiteness (2013)

Documentaries about the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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123 Subversive Documentaries That Challenge the Status Quo

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

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22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

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

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Double Down News

Israel is Becoming a Fascist State (2023)

Israel and The Myth of 'Self Defence'

Why Does The Media Love War So Much? | George Monbiot

The Problem with Wokeness | Ayishat Akanbi

The Problem with Cancel Culture | Ayishat Akanbi

Princes, Prostitutes, Politicians and Bribes | Andrew Feinstein

Your Slavery Is Their Freedom | George Monbiot

Is The World Really Overpopulated? | George Monbiot

Former British Soldier EXPOSES Israel War Machine

Why I OPPOSE Vaccine Mandates, COVID Passports & Big Pharma | Jeremy Corbyn

Making a Killing: How Politicians & the Arms Trade Collude to Take us to War | Andrew Feinstein

Former NATO Soldier Destroys Official Ukraine War Narrative

Capitalism is the Planet’s Cancer: Operate Before it’s too Late | George Monbiot

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Center'

The Secret to Ending Poverty | Rutger Bregman

How Dark Money Convinced You to Vote for Monsters | Peter Geoghegan

Are Black Men Not Supposed to be Happy? | KYLE

The True Legacy of Christopher Columbus: 'Western Civilisation' | George Monbiot

Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Coronavirus Crisis | Grace Blakeley

Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence | Gary Younge

Coronavirus: How the Arms Trade is Making You Sick | Andrew Feinstein

Former British Soldier DESTROYS Official Afghanistan Narrative

People Didn't Win The Election... Wall $treet Did | Ryan Knight

Army Veteran Joe Glenton on Class War & War on Iran

Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

What the F-ck happened to Hip-Hop? (2018)

"Minneapolis was a Warzone" Frontline Report on Black Lives Matter Protests Rocking US | Jamal Green

Documentaries from the Early Days of Films For Action

The Corporation (2003)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

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

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

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

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

Earthlings (2005)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

American Drug War: The Last White Hope (2007)

The Canary Effect: Kill the Indian, Save the Man (2006)

The Crisis of Civilization (2011)

Race: The Power of An Illusion (2003)

Oil, Smoke & Mirrors (2007)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Trending Articles

Cultural Appropriation, White Purity and ‘Woke’ Nationalism

Rhyd Wildermuth

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

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

Panic Volkushka

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

22 Documentaries That Tell the Truth About How Government Really Works

Tim Hjersted

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

Wisdom Pills

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

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

Tim Hjersted

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

Caitlin Johnstone

Argentina: The Country That Monsanto Poisoned

Michael Warren and Natacha Pisarenko

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

Films For Action

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

The Truth About “Trailer Trash”

Sonya Salamon and Katherine MacTavish

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

David Cain

10 Female Revolutionaries That You Probably Didn't Learn About In History class

Kathleen Harris

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

Russell Means

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

Local Futures

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

George Lakey

Joanna Macy on How to Prepare Internally for WHATEVER Comes Next

Joanna Macy

93 Documentaries to Expand Your Consciousness

Films For Action

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

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

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

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

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

The Importance of Rites of Passage

Happen Films: Permaculture, Living Simply, Living Joyously

Together We Grow (2022)

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

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

From Finance to Farmer - Incredible Permaculture Farm Created in Just 3 Years!

Sustainable City Living on 1/10th of an Acre - Degrowth in the Suburbs

Growing an Abundance of Food in the City Using Permaculture

Beautiful Off-Grid Tiny House Truck Made From Reclaimed Materials

Fighting Climate Change With Regenerative Agriculture

How A Family of 5 Creates Almost Zero Waste

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Incredibly Abundant 1-Acre Permaculture Homestead Tour

Growing Huge Amounts of Food on 1/2 an Acre - Urban Abundance

Living Simply in a Tiny Off-Grid Cabin

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

Let's Support Farmers, Not Supermarkets - The Future of Food

Family Flourishing on an Urban 1/4 acre Permaculture Plot - Creatures of Place

Beautiful 1 Acre Small Scale Permaculture Farm

Watch a Really Cool Tiny House Get Built from Start to Finish for $2500

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! - Closing the Loop

Permaculture Tours - Episode 1: Abdallah House

New Documentaries

Power 2 the People (2013)

The Outdoor Classroom: How to Bring a Permaculture Garden to Your School (2013)

Tribes on the Edge (2021)

Food, Inc. 2 (2024)

SiDiKi: Celebrating the Healing Powers of Music & Dance (2014)

Britain's Ultra Nationalists (2019)

Israel: Above the law? (2024)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

October 7 | Al Jazeera Investigations (2024)

The Stones Cry Out: The Story Of Palestinian Christians (2013)

In The Eye Of The Storm: The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis (2024)

The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)

Walk With Me: A Journey into Mindfulness (2017)

The Amazon Changers - Cook to Empower (2019)

LAST CALL! (2022)

Frontier: The Story of the First Americans (2019)

The Sanctuary (2022)

Edward Said: The Myth Of The Clash Of Civilizations (1998)

Complicit: The Dark Realities of China's Electronics Industry (2017)

The Settlers (2016)

Edward Said: On Orientalism (1998)

Ecosophia: Ecological Wisdom (2024)

The Medicated Child (2008)

Constructing The Terrorist Threat (2017)

Permaculture

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