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The Monopoly On Violence

The Monopoly On Violence

A documentary about anarchism and The State.

By EL Pobre Profe

Digilante

Racism has gone viral.

By EL Pobre Profe

Princes of the Yen

Princes of the Yen

How Japanese society was transformed to suit the agenda of powerful interest groups, and how citizens were kept entirely in the dark about this.

By Michael Oswald

The Hustle Is Real

The Hustle Is Real

It�s like Thelonious Monk said : Do your own thing. In 15, 20 years, people will catch on.

By Thomas Draudt

13 Years Living Off the Land

13 Years Living Off the Land

Peter from TreeEater Farm in BC shares the challenges and lessons learned from his experience earning a living off the land for 13 years with his partner Magdalene. Peter moved to a piece of land in British Columbia's Gulf Islands as an idealistic ...

By ideólogo monofóbico

The Touch

Aziz Nesin � writer, dissident, intellectual, humanist. A portrait of a man constantly speaking up for democracy, freedom and peace celebrates his 100th birthday. His work and dream still live on in the Nesin Foundation � a place for children t ...

By Ethem �zg�ven

Demo

SHOW DIFERENT DOCUMENTARY: A�oranza, Internal War, Cantares para siempre, Edad para el retorno, Reflex or not reflex.

By Carlos Altamirano

Permanecer En La Merced

Permanecer En La Merced

En alg�n lugar de la Ciudad de M�xico, lejos de aquellos que construyen con sus rutinas el barrio, se trama un plan para La Merced. Un plan para rescatar el espacio para las �lites. Un plan para despojar de sus espacios a la ciudad popular. Colectivo ...

By EL Pobre Profe

El Sol En La Piedra

El Sol En La Piedra

Documental sobre el artista plastico Federico Coscio

By Alicia Cartaman

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity

a free feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group build tiny houses, plant veggie gardens, practice s ...

By EL Pobre Profe

Tony Windberg. A Painter in the Woods

Tony Windberg. A Painter in the Woods

Multi award winning artist Tony Windberg lives and works in Nortcliffe, in the midst of vast eucalyptus forests in the South West region of Western Australia. What at first glance appeared to be a giant wall of trees when the Melbourne born painter ...

By Thomas Schumacher

El documental nace de nuestra preocupaci�n en relaci�n con la expansi�n en progresi�n geom�trica del llamado TDAH (Trastorno de D�ficit de Atenci�n y/o Hiperactividad) y del incremento del consumo de psicof�rmacos en menores y adolescentes que lleva asociado. La util ...

By Arturo Viloria

Poop On Poverty (Poop Sobre Pobreza)

Poop On Poverty (Poop Sobre Pobreza)

Every winter Pushkar in India holds a seven-day religious festival and the world's biggest camel fair. With around 25,000 camels in town, you can expect a lot of camel droppings. And these droppings provide an opportunity -- a chance for poor famili ...

By Vijay S. Jodha

Reykjavik Rising _

Reykjavik Rising _

In October 2008 Iceland was hit with one of the biggest financial disasters any nation in the world had experienced. In response, citizens took to the streets creating what is now known as the �Pots and Pans Revolution�.

By Danny Mitchell

La Frontera

Mark J. Hainds is a naturalist, adventurer, and author from Andalusia, Alabama who quit his job and planned a trek of the Texas - Mexico border that many people thought he would not survive. Mark�s walk began at International Boundary Marker 1 in El ...

By EL Pobre Profe

Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs

Ancient Belarusian Folk Songs

A rare look into the distant world of Belarusian folks songs.

By Volya Dzemka

Memories of Warsaw

Memories of Warsaw

Dutch painter Robert Webster interprets how he saw Warsaw in the late 60s..

By Robert Webster

Alzheimer's: A Love Story

Alzheimer's: A Love Story

Alzheimer�s: A Love Story follows Greg and Michael as they struggle with a disease that is actively eradicating the memory of a beautiful relationship 40+ years in the making, and the love that has held them together through it all.

By Gabe Schimmel

BYE BYE HAVANA

As long as Cuba stays communist nothing will change for the general population, especially not for those who do not receive remittances. For all Havana's crumbling structures and piles of rubble, its disintegrating roads and toxin-belching jalop ...

By J. Michael Seyfert

Faber Navalis

Faber Navalis is the Latin translation for Boatbuilder: words in an ancient language for describing an ancient profession. This video is an experiment in Sensory Ethnography: a combination of aesthetics and ethnography which attempts to transmit the ...

By Maurizio Borriello

Plutocracy

Plutocracy has succeeded at generalizing the political lessons of an entire era in U.S. Labor history from a working-class viewpoint.

By ideólogo monofóbico

The Great African Scandal

The Great African Scandal

Gold, rice & Cocoa. Academic Robert Beckford visits Ghana to investigate the hidden costs of rice, chocolate and gold. And why, 50 years after independence, a country so rich in natural resources is one of the poorest in the world.

By ideólogo monofóbico

Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War

Burp! Pepsi v Coke in the Ice Cold War

There's something good-natured about the taste of coke - brings out the goodness in people http://johnpilger.com/videos/burp-pepsi-v-coke-in-the-ice-cold-war

By ideólogo monofóbico

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats

Obscene, disgusting, vulgar, vile! 101 superstar comedians tell the same utterly filthy joke --one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville. (MATURE)

By ideólogo monofóbico

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The Last Photo
The Model
Fourteen Days
La Descorrupcion
Yomigaeru To Live Again
Veni Etiam
The Servant
Young Syrian Lenses
Brazil is Not Copacabana
Forest of Copper Columns
About Killing The Pig
The Caramel Corn Riot
Fiona Humphrey: A Family Album

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