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Are you a Highly Empathic Person? Discover the traits of those who are, and learn how we can use empathy to support both others and ourselves. Learn more here.

Video · 4 min · 22,913 views · 4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication

Nonviolent communication is a tool that we can use to resolve conflicts at both the individual and collective levels. By focusing on identifying the needs of individuals and...

Video · 6 min · 44,688 views · 4.3 stars · added by Tim Hjersted

The Future of Cities

Oscar Boyson travelled to cities all over the world to learn about some of ways cities are changing, building and adapting for sustainability and livability. In places he...

Short Film · 18 min · 5,447 views · 4.6 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Incredible Story of How a Leopard called 'Diabolo' Became Known as 'Spirit'

What if you could talk to animals and have them talk back to you? Anna Breytenbach has dedicated her life to what she calls interspecies communication. She sends detailed...

Short Film · 13 min · 13,348 views · 4.6 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Humanity's Greatest Challenges Aren't Technical, They're Human

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is incomplete as we commonly know it. Later in his life, Maslow wrote about a stage beyond self-actualization. Nichol Brandford explains how to...

Video · 8 min · 10,112 views · 4.5 stars · added by Andrew Butler

What Is Universal Basic Income?

What is Universal Basic Income? Everyone’s talking about a ‘citizen’s income’ or ‘basic income’, but what on earth is it?! It sounds like a Utopian dream, but support for a...

Video · 2 min · 7,227 views · 4.3 stars · added by Christopher McMillin

Incredible Angela Davis Lecture Ties Together Liberation Struggles Past and Present

In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist...

Video · 45 min · 2,899 views · 4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Secret to Effective Nonviolent Resistance

We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find...

Video · 9 min · 16,743 views · 4.4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

This Off Grid Handmade Island is One of the Most Amazing Homes in the World

Floating off the coast of Vancouver Island, a 45-minute boat ride to the nearest town, is a sustainable island fortress complete with a dance floor, art gallery and garden. For...

Video · 3 min · 57,021 views · 4.2 stars · added by Andrew Butler

United Natures: a United Nations of all Species (2013)

United Natures explores the Rights of Mother Earth, Environmental Philosophy, Wisdom, Spirituality and the potential for a Neo-indigenous future for humanity. Directed and...

Documentary · 103 min · 11,438 views · 4.3 stars · added by Films For Action

Turning of the Whales (trailer)

Fresh out of college, a skinny nerd with little or no social skills, my worldview heavily influenced by an Enlightenment notion of the 'human', I decided to dedicate my...

Trailer · 2 min · 5,118 views · 3.3 stars · added by Adebayo Akomolafe

Making This Small Change Will Make a Profound Difference to Your Day

“Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant...

Video · 4 min · 15,558 views · 4.4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The News Is Center Right

The notion of the "liberal media" hides the fact that most corporate media isn't concerned about presenting a diversity of left-perspectives. That's because the media doesn't...

Video · 2 min · 1,656 views · 3.5 stars · added by Films For Action

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Shunryu Suzuki - Essential Wisdom for the Art of Living

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." So begins this most beloved of all American Zen books. Seldom has such a small handful...

Video · 170 min · 7,612 views · 4 stars · added by Tim Hjersted

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 · 19,854 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

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 · 5,731 views · 4.7 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 · 12,622 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

"The World Is My Country" Shows Origin of Yasiin Bey's World Passport

This clip from upcoming feature documentary "The World Is My Country" introduces the origins of and need for a World Passport.

Video · 8 min · 7,463 views · 4.4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Guerilla Gardening in South Central LA

Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central LA -- in abandoned lots, traffic medians, along the curbs. Why? For fun, for defiance, for beauty and to offer some...

Video · 10 min · 4,725 views · 4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

You Are Me (2016)

The cosmos is One interconnected and indivisible Whole. You Are the Cosmos, and All That Is. Therefore, You Are Me! For more information, including sources and quotes...

Video · 4 min · 12,174 views · 4.1 stars · added by Mark Ellison

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil Degrasse Tyson

Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson

Video · 85 min · 992 views · 4 stars · added by A Cause For Ideas

Compassion & Interbeing | Thich Nhat Hanh

Thích Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist. Here, he shares his wisdom on compassion and explains the concept of interbeing. To...

Video · 3 min · 268 views · 3.8 stars · added by Sofia Sees

The Truth

The tiny seed of Truth is found in every human being. Similarly to the seed of a tree, the tiny seed contains great potentials. If the spiritual Seeker protects and nourishes...

Video · 2 min · 2,681 views · 4 stars · added by Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D

This Short Film Plays Out Like an Epic Movie That Will Shake Your Soul - But the Movie Is Real, and We are The Actors

For next year, we need a resolution capable of confronting the crisis we face, and making a future worth fighting for. This short film looks back on the crisis and confusion...

Short Film · 6 min · 38,667 views · 4.8 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Money for Free (2015)

Around the globe, experiments are conducted with alternatives for the existing social security system that has become stuck. People no longer believe in centrally organised...

Documentary · 50 min · 9,369 views · 3.8 stars · added by Archived Member

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 · 9,707 views · 4.7 stars · added by Jozef Devillé

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 · 3,363 views · 4.6 stars · added by Andrew Butler

That's What He Said: Women

It has been said that 'Men are afraid women will laugh at them, and women are afraid men will kill them.' How do you feel about this statement? In this episode our men discuss...

Video · 7 min · 4,436 views · 4.4 stars · added by Gail C

Robots Stealing My Jobs

Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated Transcripts w sources Support me on Patreon! Music by Cascading Style Beats ("Forever" album) Casey Thaler...

Video · 7 min · 2,805 views · 4 stars · added by Matt Orfalea

10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Have a Guaranteed Livable Income

The simplest most effective solution to poverty.

Video · 3 min · 9,466 views · 4.8 stars · added by Matt Orfalea

Billions in Change (2015)

The world is facing some huge problems. There's a lot of talk about how to solve them. But talk doesn't reduce pollution, or grow food, or heal the sick. That takes doing. This...

Documentary · 43 min · 3,244 views · 4 stars · added by Archived Member

submedia.Tv: Behind the Scenes

We live in crazy times. A veritable clusterfuck of austerity, riots, and repression is playing out amidst a backdrop of growing inequality and global ecological collapse. In...

Video · 4 min · 1,056 views · 4 stars · added by the stimulator

Rose Pere: We Believe In The Oneness of Everything That Exists

At her home just north of Tuai, a small town in the mountains of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere shares some of the beliefs of her...

Video · 2 min · 13,815 views · 4.5 stars · added by Films For Action

Help People Cross Borders

A German initiative, named after those who smuggled people from East to West Berlin, is encouraging people to give lifts in their cars to migrants in order to help them cross...

Video · 3 min · 4,688 views · 4.5 stars · added by Andrew Butler

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 · 10,211 views · 4.7 stars · added by Andrew Butler

How to be a Peace Officer

What would it take to turn police officers who abuse their power into protectors of the peace? For a free download of The Four Agreements mentioned in this video, click...

Video · 9 min · 4,895 views · 4.5 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Transition From Caterpillar to Butterfly as Analogy for Social Change

An exceprt from Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview in which Dr. Bruce Lipton talks about the fractal nature of reality and compares the current global awakening and the...

Video · 4 min · 5,057 views · 4.2 stars · added by Andrew Butler

A Simple Mind Trick Will Help You Think More Rationally

Emotions can cloud our rational decision-making. By adopting the perspective of an outside advisor, psychologist Dan Ariely says we can inject some rationality into our...

Video · 2 min · 6,749 views · 4.3 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Life After Growth - Economics for Everyone (2010)

The economic crash of 2008 revealed not only the frailty and vulnerability of the economic system, it also showed the false basis that the growth economy is built on – the...

Documentary · 25 min · 3,816 views · 4.2 stars · added by Andrew Butler

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 · 19,185 views · 4.6 stars · added by Andrew Butler

What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning?

Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their...

Video · 15 min · 1,884 views · 3.5 stars · added by Peter Hutton

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

This series of six short films look beyond hierarchy at two approaches to self-organisation. Traditionally, many of us are used to having someone at the top, but times are...

Video · 74 min · 6,575 views · 4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Fermi Paradox - Where Are All The Aliens?

The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens?...

Video · 6 min · 5,814 views · 4.5 stars · added by Andrew Butler

The Unlikely Librarian

A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action. In an Indonesian fishing village where afternoons are spent napping, one fisherman is losing sleep so...

Video · 4 min · 1,133 views · 4 stars · added by Our Better World

Bayo Akomolafe: An Oriki for the Times

Bayo Akomolafe is a researcher, lecturer and author, as well as Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization. This is his plenary talk at the Economics of...

Video · 23 min · 195 views · 3.5 stars · added by Adebayo Akomolafe

Small-Scale Farmers Cool the Planet

Fair World Project's new 17-minute documentary highlights the role of industrial agriculture in climate change while expounding on how small farmers are combating the climate...

Video · 17 min · 4,485 views · 4.4 stars · added by Ryan Zinn Rodriguez

Abby Martin Breaks the Set One Last Time

On this final episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin, discusses the power of grassroots activism in getting the FCC to uphold net neutrality. Abby then speaks with Eugene...

Video · 27 min · 2,021 views · 4.3 stars · added by Abby M

Abby Martin Exposes Obama's SOTU Double Speak | Brainwash Update

Abby Martin discusses the hypocritical and misleading foreign policy claims made during the State of the Union.

Video · 4 min · 5,426 views · 4.4 stars · added by Abby M

#BlackLivesMatter: Tactics, Class Warfare, and the Legacy of Racism

Special Panel Discussion on Racism, Poverty and the Future of Ferguson. On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin, features a special panel discussion on race...

Video · 28 min · 1,864 views · 4 stars · added by Abby M

Zapatista (1999)

With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and...

Documentary · 55 min · 18,763 views · 4.3 stars · added by Andrew Butler