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Transition Documentaries

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

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

Voices of Transition (2012) ($5)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

The Transition

What's a Colloquium? An Oral History of the Natural Building Movement (2020)

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

Feeding Ourselves (2017)

Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

Ecovillage Pioneers: A Journey Towards Low-Impact Living (2016) ($3)

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

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Building the Democratic Economy, from Preston to Cleveland (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Coming Home: The Reinvention of the Local Economy (2009)

Tomorrow: Take Concrete Steps To A Sustainable Future ($5)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

The Corporation is at the Root of our Uncivilized, Inequality-Driving, Earth-Killing Economy

The Corporation (2003)

The New Corporation (2022) ($5)

War By Other Means (1992)

The War at Home: The Untold History of Class War in the United States (2021)

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

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

4 Inspirational Transition Stories for Becoming a Global Eco-Civilization

Over 300 'How to Guides' to Help You Bring a More Beautiful World into Being

Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019) ($5)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014) ($5)

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

Communities Of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe (2020)

What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Thomas Berry: The New Story (1984)

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

Big Idea: We need a New Science of Physical Economics

Creating Conscious Communities - Our Modest Efforts are Really the Only Hope

Guide to Building Thriving, Resilient Communities

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

A New We: Ecovillages and Eco-Communities in Europe (trailer)

The Confederation as the Commune of Communes

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does Not Equal Political Change (2015)

Bioregional Living: A Permaculture Guide to Food and Energy Independence | Andrew Faust (2020)

Regenerative Cultures, Regenerative Economics & Bioregional Regeneration

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011) ($5)

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

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

Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative

Iowa’s Vision of a More Beautiful World, 10 Years After Passing a Green New Deal

We’ve Got a Better World in Mind - 8 Principles for a Beautiful Future

A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006) ($5)

The End of the Corporation?

The Transformative Power of Trustbuilding: Towards a Culture of Shared Responsibility

3 Principles to End the Polarization of Society and Create a Healthy Culture

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Action in the Anthropocene: The Inevitable Transition Requires We Go Beyond Activism

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

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)

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Films For Action

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Films For Action

Nonviolence Is a Light of Possibility in Times Like This: on the Current Escalation in Israel and Palestine

Sabine Lichtenfels, A’ida al-Shibli, Uri Ayalon & Martin Winiecki

A Plan for Peace in Gaza

Salam Fayyad

The White Man in That Photo

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

Wisdom Pills

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

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

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

Panic Volkushka

Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel

Rabbi Michael Lerner

The Little Engine That Couldn't: How We're Preparing Ourselves and Our Children for Extinction

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Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

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The New Story Revolution

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Stories That Once Offered My Life Meaning No Longer Satisfy. Have You Felt This Too?

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

Charles Eisenstein: The Two Great Stories That Give Meaning to Our Lives

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The New Story: Why Changing the Myth Changes Our world

Sacred Economics with Charles Eisenstein (2019 Remix)

A Charter for the Social Solidarity Economy

Money & Life (2013)

Occupy Love (2013) ($6)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015) ($5)

Charles Eisenstein: The Story of Interbeing

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

Yearning our Way to A More Beautiful World

Carl Sagan - Who Speaks for Earth?

ENOUGHNESS: Restoring Balance to the Economy in the Most Awesome Way Ever

Joanna Macy: From The Great Unraveling to The Great Turning

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

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Jacque Fresco - A Story of Change

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible - Charles Eisenstein

10 Principles of Radical Ecological Democracy

The Sacred Balance (2002) (trailer)

Earth Democracy

15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

A New Story for a New Economy

The Charter For Compassion

The Burden of the New Story

Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

Paradise or Oblivion (2012)

An Unlearning: My Meeting with Charles Eisenstein (2022)

The Choice Is Ours (2016)

Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy

The Story That's Destroying the World

PROUT's Concept of Economic Democracy

Imagine The Most Beautiful Future: What Do You See?

This Is The "Living on Earth 101" Primer Every Human Needs To See. And It's Only 52 Seconds.

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

I Am Not Black. You Are Not White: We Are Not the Racial Labels Elites Invented to Divide Us

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Love School (2019) (trailer)

Charles Eisenstein on The Challenge of Communicating Beyond the Boundaries of Consensus Reality

Charles Eisenstein - Why We Need Community To Live In the New Story

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

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

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

8 Principles for a Regenerative Civilization

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

Philosophy

The Art of Communicating: Thich Nhat Hanh

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

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

The Tao Te Ching: The Classic Manual on The Art of Living

The Present Need of the World (1926)

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

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

The Demoralized Mind

The Global Brain | Peter Russell (1983)

The Art of Effortless Living: A Taoist Documentary (2019)

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

The Twelve: A Tale of Wisdom & Unity (2019)

Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Love: Teachings to Cultivate Awareness and Intimacy

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine & Feminine

Reconciliation at the Intersection of the Sacred Masculine/Feminine and Activism

Matriarchies Are Not Just a Reversal of Patriarchies: A Structural Analysis

Feminine Wisdom | Schuyler Brown & Samantha Sweetwater

The Genderbread Person Isn't the Way | Zander Keig

Why Your Inner Male and Inner Female Have Nothing to Do With Your Gender

Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings

Why Men's Work? Surely We’re Over Dividing Things by Gender in the 21st Century?

How Your Sacred Lovers Within Play a Crucial Role in Your Life

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

Misogyny and the Healing of the Masculine

Women's Wisdom: A Powerful Message Celebrating the Feminine Values That Are Transforming The World

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine

Feminine Power Does Not Move the World Through Force. It Tethers the Masculine Powers to Life, Directs them Toward Love, and Keeps Them Grounded in Beauty.

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

F-Ck Hamas. F-Ck Israel: the Gazan Youth Manifesto (2011)

Most Watched Documentaries

For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

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Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

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The Economics of Happiness (2011)

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First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2010)

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Lifting the Veil: Obama and the Failure of Capitalist Democracy (2011)

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This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

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The War You Don't See (2010)

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Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013) ($5)

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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009)

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I AM (2010) ($3)

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The Zeitgeist Movement | Peter Joseph

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph (2017)

Peter Joseph: Introducing a Resource Based Economy (Multi-Part Series)

The Zeitgeist Movement: Activist Orientation Presentation

Peter Joseph: "Social Pathology"

Peter Joseph: When Normality Becomes Distortion

Peter Joseph - The Revolution of Values

A Critique of Bernie Sanders "Inequality in America" Town Hall, by Peter Joseph (2018)

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Revolution Now! with Peter Joseph

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A Quest For Meaning (2017) ($5)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013) ($5)

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School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018) ($5)

Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020) ($5)

The Nature of Cities (2010) ($5)

The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020) ($5)

Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021) ($5)

The Wisdom To Survive (2014) ($5)

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007) ($5)

A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016) ($5)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997) ($5)

Medicating Normal (2021) ($5)

Advertising & The End of The World (1997) ($5)

Redefining Prosperity (2018) ($5)

Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001) ($5)

Spiritually Incorrect (2020) ($5)

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003) ($5)

GIFT (2018) ($5)

Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019) ($5)

Blood and Oil (2008) ($5)

Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019) ($5)

We Are Many (2020) ($5)

Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015) ($5)

Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015) ($5)

Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010) ($5)

To The Ends of the Earth (2016) ($5)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019) ($5)

Paradise with Side Effects (2004) ($5)

Accidental Anarchist (2017) ($5)

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) ($5)

The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017) ($5)

Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993) ($5)

Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012) ($5)

Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008) ($5)

Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012) ($5)

Israel & Palestine Coverage

I’m Jewish. I Want a Ceasefire in Gaza. | Dave Zirin

Tory MP Threatens To Prosecute UK Govt Over Israeli War Crimes

Amnesty International Finds "Damning Evidence of War Crimes" by Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 6,500

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The Palestinian Horror Story The Media Hides From You

Israel is a Terrorist State

Israel is Not only Decimating Gaza with Airstrikes, It's Employing the Oldest & Cruelest Weapon of War: Starvation

Israel’s Culture of Deceit

Washington and European Governments are Cheerleading Israel’s Genocidal Campaign in Gaza

Hamas Speaks the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

Israel's Long War on Gaza w/Norman Finkelstein | The Chris Hedges Report

Blowback: How Israel Helped Create Hamas (2018)

Israel & The Myth of 'Self Defence'

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Israel Has Broken My Heart: I'm a Rabbi in Mourning for a Judaism Being Murdered by Israel

Fascism in the Holy Land: A Revised Jewish Understanding of the State of Israel

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