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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? Spoken...

Short Film · 3 min · 202,284 views · 4.9 stars · added by Mark Biddulph

This Video Dispels Every "Nature VS Nurture" Myth You've Ever Heard. The Implications are Profound.

If everyone watched this it could radically transform the world. This is a segment from Moving Forward (2011). Watch the full documentary online here.

Video · 31 min · 243,354 views · 4.9 stars · added by Films For Action

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, the film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. A...

Documentary · 167 min · 31,487 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing...

Short Film · 19 min · 28,506 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (2003)

If a key indicator of the health of a democracy is the state of its journalism, the United States is in deep trouble. In Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Robert McChesney lays the...

Documentary · 30 min · 27,500 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

The Old Paradigm Meets the New Paradigm In This Incredible Interview with Russel Brand

Newsnight's Jeremy Paxman engages Russell Brand about voting, apathy, revolution and beards... and it's the most utterly fantastic clash between the old paradigm and the new...

Video · 11 min · 27,843 views · 4.8 stars · added by Hana Munroe

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

"Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me.' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you...

Short Film · 4 min · 22,169 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that is recreating our world...

Documentary · 65 min · 55,408 views · 4.8 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Coming Birth of The Empathic Civilization Will Be One of The Greatest Moments in Human History

"The Empathic Civilization" is one of the biggest ideas of the 21st century. The arrival of this era will be monumental. Jeremy Rifkin explains. For the entire speech, check...

Short Film · 11 min · 47,670 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

A New Years Resolution For Everyone Fighting For A Better World In 2016

For 2016, we need a resolution capable of confronting the crisis we face, and making a future worth fighting for. "A Resolution" looks back on the crisis and confusion of...

Short Film · 6 min · 16,301 views · 4.8 stars · added by Andrew Butler

10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income

The simplest most effective solution to poverty.

Video · 3 min · 9,169 views · 4.8 stars · added by Matt Orfalea

How Welfare DOES NOT Work The Way You Think It Does

It is time for America to reconsider who is dependent on welfare. Poverty is not only the lack of income and wealth but also the poverty of power. A key part of the poverty of...

Short Film · 13 min · 22,157 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

The Lottery of Birth (2013) ($4)

Do you shape the world or does it shape you? Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH...

Documentary · 76 min · 24,009 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Capitalism Is Failing, and It's Time to Panic

The neoliberalist capitalist model has resulted in civil wars and economic disaster, and it’s only going to get worse. Unless, Paul Mason argues, we take advantage of the...

Video · 4 min · 9,819 views · 4.7 stars · added by Andrew Butler

A New Story of the People

The old story of our culture is losing its meaning for more and more people. Perhaps almost everyone can feel it these days. But a new story is emerging too - one that...

Short Film · 8 min · 25,463 views · 4.7 stars · added by Chris Agnos

Join the Empathy Revolution!

Introspection is out, and outrospection is in. Philosopher and author Roman Krznaric explains how we can help drive social change by stepping outside ourselves. Roman...

Video · 10 min · 16,307 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) (trailer)

The true life story of Bill Hicks the outlaw comic who tried to save the world, as told by the 10 people who knew him best. This groundbreaking documentary uses a stunning...

Trailer · 2 min · 14,975 views · 4.7 stars · added by Mike Solis

Dirt! The Movie (2009)

DIRT! The Movie takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility--from its miraculous beginning to...

Documentary · 80 min · 71,283 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Human Postcards #19 - Shane

NEW ZEALAND - Russell - After a successful career in the corporate world, Shane left it behind to pursue a more meaningful life with his family. Trained in the best leadership...

Video · 1 min · 455 views · 4.7 stars · added by Nora Jaccaud

Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress

Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values of altruism, compassion and...

Short Film · 3 min · 5,182 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Wealth Illusion, Structural Violence & The Fear of Truth

Abby Martin interviews the creator of the Zeitgeist Movement, Peter Joseph, covering everything from the upcoming Zeitgeist Festival in Los Angeles on October 4th to economic...

Video · 30 min · 6,315 views · 4.7 stars · added by Christopher McMillin

Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization

Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or...

Video · 4 min · 7,196 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

The Basic Income (2008)

Grundeinkommen - ein Kulturimpuls (The Basic Income - A Cultural Impulse) is a German film with subtitles in 10 languages that makes the case for a basic income for all...

Documentary · 100 min · 15,913 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and...

Short Film · 12 min · 20,524 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Real Estate 4 Ransom: Why Does Land Cost the Earth? (2012)

REAL ESTATE 4 RAN$OM outlines a genuine alternative to the global property speculation that forced so many into debt. Doubling the pressure, the tax game has become just that...

Documentary · 39 min · 30,977 views · 4.7 stars · added by access@realestate4ransom.com

The Big Idea of the 21st Century: The Empathic Civilization

Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our...

Video · 51 min · 20,955 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

In 10 Minutes This Clip Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix May Change How You See the World Forever

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with...

Short Film · 10 min · 54,340 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

A Basic Income for All!

There is enough wealth for all of us. What if we decided that every human being has a right to income security? How could a basic income change our lives? Could this relieve...

Documentary · 49 min · 9,065 views · 4.7 stars · added by Jozef Devillé

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...

Documentary · 95 min · 71,276 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

Greening the Desert (2014)

Synopsis In Burkina Faso, changing weather patterns provoked by climate change, combined with over-farming and over-grazing, have turned once fertile lands into desert...

Short Film · 7 min · 3,757 views · 4.7 stars · added by Tim Webster

How Do You Define Yourself? Do You See How Your Answer May Lead to Violence?

Conflict starts with definitions of "us" and "them" ... what if there is no "them" ... ? “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or...

Video · 2 min · 9,437 views · 4.7 stars · added by Athol Williams

Solidarity Means Attack!

Catch more videos like these at subMedia.tv This week: 1. Worldwide May Day actions 2. Jeremy Hammond's May Day message 3. Against Me! Baby I'm and Anarchist Medley 4. ABC's...

Video · 13 min · 4,447 views · 4.7 stars · added by the stimulator

The Chain of Obedience

The death squads and concentration camps of history were never staffed by rebels and dissidents. They were were run by those who followed the rules.

Short Film · 2 min · 15,611 views · 4.7 stars · added by Films For Action

100% Possible - Clean, Safe, Renewable Energy

What if Steve Jobs had given up on the iPhone – how would you be reading this now?! More importantly, what would our world be like if MLK hadn't had a dream, or Gandhi never...

Video · 2 min · 3,066 views · 4.6 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Alfie Kohn: No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning (trailer)

In a thought-provoking presentation, Alfie Kohn makes a compelling case that two traditional features of schooling -- grades and homework -- are not only unnecessary but...

Trailer · 5 min · 18,687 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

WikiRebels - The Documentary (2010)

Exclusive rough-cut of the first in-depth documentary on WikiLeaks and the people behind it! From summer 2010 until now, Swedish Television has been following the secretive...

Documentary · 57 min · 13,349 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

The End of Control

It’s getting up to speak, and instead of going with what you had written down on paper, going with what’s really in your heart. It’s the road-trip where you only go where you...

Short Film · 4 min · 18,438 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

Awakening the Dreamer: Changing the Dream (2011) (trailer)

Wake up to your own role in creating a new future. This new perspective of the current state of our planet features top scientific, indigenous and activist minds from around...

Trailer · 7 min · 53,183 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

A New Story for Humanity (trailer)

The film was inspired by the New Story Summit at the Findhorn Foundation: a sold-out multicultural, multigenerational enquiry into a new story for humanity, attended by change...

Trailer · 2 min · 12,091 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

The Crisis of Civilization (trailer)

The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and...

Trailer · 2 min · 7,742 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

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

A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. Featuring interviews...

Documentary · 123 min · 43,877 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

The Kingdom of Children

Have a look at how photography is actually creating futures. Deep in the beautiful mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Picture Aid travels to meet one of the children that are...

Short Film · 10 min · 2,714 views · 4.6 stars · added by Kristian Harby

Occupy Love (2013)

Join acclaimed director Velcrow Ripper on a journey deep inside the global revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. Humanity is waking up to the fact that...

Documentary · 85 min · 27,197 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

Changing Education Paradigms

This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin...

Short Film · 12 min · 9,036 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

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

This film is an inspirational immersion in the Transition movement, gathering stories from around the world of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. There are stories of...

Documentary · 66 min · 24,856 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

The High Price of Materialism

Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good...

Short Film · 5 min · 54,131 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

Garbage Warrior (2007)

What do beer cans, car tires and water bottles have in common? Not much unless you're renegade architect Michael Reynolds, in which case they are tools of choice for producing...

Documentary · 87 min · 41,053 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

The Superior Human? (2012)

A documentary that systematically challenges the common human belief that humans are superior to other life forms. The documentary reveals the absurdity of this belief while...

Documentary · 73 min · 43,327 views · 4.5 stars · added by George Rivera

Subconscious War (2011)

Subconscious War is a short documentary on media, reality, and the culture of violence, It covers the prophecies of Aldous Huxley and Neil Postman's grim assessment of our...

Documentary · 29 min · 137,134 views · 4.5 stars · added by Dan Weingarten

Anarchy Lives: Rojava

There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where...

Video · 8 min · 18,819 views · 4.5 stars · added by Andrew Butler