Films For Action: Documentaries for Changing the World
The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World. Films For Action. "Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up. Tim Hjersted.
The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict
Nov 18, 2012 · 5 Broken Cameras (2011) 86 min · An extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism, 5 Broken Cameras is a deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a West Bank village threatened by encroaching Israeli settlements. 9.
The Truth About “Trailer Trash” - Films For Action
Jan 6, 2018 · As a toxic slur, the “trailer trash” brand works to stigmatize an entire category of people marginalizing them from mainstream society. During the late 1990s, the two of us spent considerable time at the kitchen tables of parents raising children in rural trailer parks. Virtually all of these parents worked full time in manufacturing and ...
Tapped (2009) - Films For Action
Stephanie Soechtig's debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never ...
The Top 250 Documentaries We Can Use to Inspire a More …
Jul 30, 2024 · Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017) 62 min · Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen...
The One Percent (2006) - Films For Action
The One Percent (2006) This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on ...
Films For Action: What We Are Here For
Nov 4, 2016 · It's hard to believe Films For Action has been around now for 10 years. From our early years focusing on local film screenings to our more recent years, focusing on raising awareness globally via our website and social media, our mission has been to provide a DIY alternative to the corporate mass media, which censors, erases, sanitizes, attacks and ignores the diverse voices of humanity in ...
Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) - Films For Action
The Big Picture. 5 min - The song that could save America. Share widely. Written, animated and performed by Jason KravitsProduced and mixed by Sean Dixon with Jason Kravits, Christopher Walz, and Brian O’Neill. Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980) 780 min.
Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My …
Nov 12, 2011 · The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the Black Hills of South Dakota.It is Russell Means's most famous speech. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, he was perhaps the most outsized personality in the American Indian Movement, beginning with ...
White Like Me (2013) - Films For Action
White Like Me (2013) ($5) White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating ...