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Travelling the length of the country and back again with a pair of horses and gypsy caravan, Live Before You Die is the ultimate horse-drawn road movie, following a band of...

Short Film · 6 min · 11,515 views · 4.2 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Challenger - Voices From the Street

A group of street people in Austin, TX edit, write, and distribute their own newspaper as a way to help get them off the street. The Challenger Street Newspaper improves their...

Short Film · 28 min · 1,361 views · 3.5 stars · added by Gregg Baethge

Where Does Compassion Really Come From?

Can compassion be learned? The answer is yes! Sometimes, all it takes is truly paying attention to the people around us. Visit happify.com for guided meditations and fun...

Video · 2 min · 4,558 views · 3.5 stars · added by Films For Action

Open Letter to Sanders' Supporters

In this Open Letter animation, Michael Nagler from the Metta Center for Nonviolence encourages Bernie Sanders' supporters that they don't need to "get over their anger," but...

Video · 4 min · 12,048 views · 3.4 stars · added by Metta Center for Nonviolence

Tomorrow's Food: Cultured Meat

A short film covering the innovative research area of Cultured Meat and Cellular Agriculture. This film explores current developments in the field, as well as pondering what is...

Short Film · 13 min · 4,826 views · unrated · added by Films For Action

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

Roman Krznaric: How Empathy Can Change the World

Why we need to move empathy from personal emotion to collective moral concern -- Empathy comes in two distinct forms: affective empathy is our instinct for mirroring the...

Video · 5 min · 11,182 views · 3.9 stars · added by Films For Action

10 Reasons Bernie Sanders Fans Should Support Basic Income

Why Bernie Sanders supporters should advocate for Universal Basic Income. Follow Matt Orfalea for more like this.

Video · 8 min · 10,798 views · 4.6 stars · added by Matt Orfalea

The Social Construction of Reality

This is deep. "Whose story is defining the context of your reality?"

Video · 3 min · 10,296 views · 3.1 stars · added by Films For Action

Withdraw Your Support from The Present System: Put Your Money Into a Black Bank or Credit Union

This is something everyone can do to take some of the power from the present system and put it into the people's hands. Find a bank near you...

Video · 3 min · 2,943 views · 3.8 stars · added by Films For Action

How to Transform the Economy: It's about The Story

How to overcome the the forty-year-old economic story that has dominated our lives. It may seem hard, but it's not impossible.

Video · 6 min · 1,211 views · unrated · added by Tim Hjersted

Visions of Utopia - Experiments in Sustainable Culture (2016) ($5)

Visions of Utopia documents and profiles 7 diverse intentional communities in the United States. Have an inside look at what it is like to live in intentional communities from...

Documentary · 96 min · 2,678 views · 4 stars · added by Films For Action

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live

How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American...

Video · 15 min · 5,081 views · 4.5 stars · added by Tim Hjersted

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

What a Strange Way of Life (2015)

This documentary closely follows the eco-village Cabrum, a recent community in northern Portugal; Cooperativa Integral Catalana, in Barcelona, which practices self-management...

Documentary · 109 min · 7,544 views · 4.3 stars · added by Films For Action

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

This is a shortened version of the award-winning feature-length documentary film, The Economics of Happiness. Cut down from 68 minutes to less than 20, it provides an...

Short Film · 19 min · 5,569 views · 4.3 stars · added by Steven Gorelick

What Is Economic Democracy?

An animated look at David Schweickart's proposal for a next system, grounded in democratic worker cooperatives and built around public control of financial capital. More info...

Video · 4 min · 4,666 views · 3.4 stars · added by Films For Action

How to Upgrade Democracy for the Internet Era

Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative...

Video · 13 min · 2,080 views · 4.4 stars · added by Films For Action

What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"

What does "a good day" mean to you?

Video · 3 min · 10,059 views · 4.4 stars · added by Films For Action

One Day in Tamera (2016)

This short documentary is about the self sustaining community of Tamera, Portugal. In the film we speak with the residents of the community, who tell us how they made that...

Documentary · 23 min · 2,788 views · 4.5 stars · added by Bérczes Ádám

What Is a Participatory Workplace?

How can we create participatory workplaces that make decision making more democratic and compensation and job assignments more equitable? In this new animation from the Next...

Video · 2 min · 949 views · 4.3 stars · added by Films For Action

The Cardboard House That Can Be Assembled in a Day and Last a Lifetime

Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular building system of cardboard components, which can be assembled in just one day to form houses or offices. Named...

Video · 1 min · 22,658 views · 3.7 stars · added by Andrew Butler

DISOBEDIENCE: The Courage To Break Free (2016)

Disobedience is a new film about a new phase of the climate movement: courageous action that is being taken on the front lines of the climate crisis on every continent, led by...

Documentary · 41 min · 24,151 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action

A New Story for Humanity (2016)

Inspired by the New Story Summit at the Findhorn Foundation: a sold-out multicultural, multigenerational inquiry into a new story for humanity, attended by change makers and...

Documentary · 102 min · 59,468 views · 4.6 stars · added by Films For Action

Pushing Through the Pavement: a Permaculture Action Story || OFFICIAL TOUR FILM

Pushing Through the Pavement: A Permaculture Action Story It’s true; musicians can be a catalyst for social change! Watch the inspiring story about the first Permaculture...

Documentary · 72 min · 2,580 views · 4.4 stars · added by Zac Fabian

Regenerative Response to Crisis: Blueprint Meeting at Tamera August 2015

The Blueprint project is an integrated response system especially applicable in emergency situations. The model includes permaculture practices, solar and biogas energy usage...

Short Film · 20 min · 1,791 views · 3.5 stars · added by Films For Action

Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

If we do not initiate the young they will burn down the village to feel the heat. - African Proverb The villages are burning. Worldwide. An estimated $500 billion is spent...

Short Film · 11 min · 3,097 views · 4 stars · added by Frederick Marx

Healing Forest

Can a forest heal people? Explore the magic of nature. Come home. Be Healed. HEALING FOREST is a journey to discover the healing powers of nature. Humans have evolved in...

Video · 2 min · 13,468 views · 4.1 stars · added by Films For Action

The Organic Revolution

Sex, drugs and rock&roll;, now thàt used to be cool. Someone who wants to be cool today, grows his own organic vegetables. Hip and trendy, or is there more to it?

Short Film · 5 min · 2,744 views · 3.8 stars · added by Pieter De Vos

Nomadic Community Gardens

Nomadic Community Gardens breathe life into disused parts of cities, which become places where nature and community thrive. This short film shows one such project near Brick...

Short Film · 7 min · 5,014 views · 3.8 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Sustainable Human Launches New Gift-Based Economic System

We recognize at the very root of many of our systemic issues is an economic system that measures progress and success in only one metric - growth or profit. Economic growth...

Short Film · 4 min · 1,493 views · 4.4 stars · added by Chris Agnos

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

Ghana's Eco-Friendly Bamboo Bikes

Meet the Ghanaian entrepreneur who's building bikes out of bamboo.

Video · 2 min · 6,368 views · 4.2 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

Palm Oil Alternative Offers Hope for Rainforest Deforestation

Harvesting palm oil is destructive to the environment, resulting in the destruction of thousands of miles of rainforest and destroying crucial orangutan habitat. But some...

Video · 2 min · 1,745 views · 4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Paws of War

This short film highlights the non-profit organization "Paws of War" which rescues dogs and pairs them with U.S. Veterans.

Short Film · 6 min · 2,644 views · unrated · added by Matthew Toplikar

POWER (2014)

POWER is Jeanny Gering's first independent short documentary, about women and girls in India who are learning to fight back. Debi Steven, martial arts champion and self defense...

Documentary · 19 min · 3,781 views · 4.5 stars · added by Jeanny Gering

The Great Everything & the Nothing (2016)

'This is the very definition of a film you MUST see before you die.' We all know that there's something odd about life. But we never really discuss it. 'The Great Everything &...

Documentary · 111 min · 14,563 views · 4.7 stars · added by The Oomun Group

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

How Cities Make Us Sick

Over the last century, cities have been designed to accommodate the automobile. So, how do we redesign them to benefit people?

Short Film · 18 min · 4,635 views · 4 stars · added by Films For Action

The Man Who Stopped the Desert (2010) ($4)

As early as the 1970's the word ' Sahel ', a word that describes that bleak land between the Sahara desert and the wet forest of tropical Africa , had become synonymous with...

Documentary · 65 min · 6,920 views · 4.3 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Could These Bugs Solve Our Trash Problem?

Can worms solve our planet's plastic problem?

Video · 1 min · 2,398 views · 3.8 stars · added by Andrew Butler

$420 Tiny House Made From Recycled Materials

The build of a $420 tiny house almost entirely made from recycled materials. The house is 6.25 square meters and includes a loft with a bed.

Short Film · 4 min · 9,072 views · 4.6 stars · added by Jordan Osmond

What Could Save This Planet, If Not Love?

In Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love, Dr. Dieter Duhm presents a vision for a new global culture – a world without war, a society without violence, love...

Video · 3 min · 9,368 views · 4.2 stars · added by Films For Action

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

"The world is missing what I am ready to give: My Wisdom, My Sweetness, My Love and My hunger for Peace." "Where are you? Where are you, little girl with broken wings but full...

Video · 4 min · 1,481,322 views · 4.7 stars · added by Andrew Butler

Baranaja - Twelve Seeds of Sustainability

300 million farmers is a whole lot of famers. India is their home, making it the country with the largest number of small-scale food growers in the world. Most of these farmers...

Short Film · 6 min · 7,322 views · 4.4 stars · added by Andrew Butler

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

Watch a tiny house get built with a lead lighting geodesic dome window! The 10 square metre tiny house cost around $2500 to build and was mostly made from recycled...

Short Film · 8 min · 4,066 views · 3.8 stars · added by Jordan Osmond

What The World Needs Now Is A Vision Of A Global Peace Culture Based On Trust

"Trust is the basis on which life heals. There is no deeper vision than the vision of a world in which trust reigns between all beings." The video is inspired by the english...

Video · 5 min · 30,152 views · 4.8 stars · added by Films For Action