Top 100 Must-See Documentaries For People Who Want To Change The World

Words From The Edge 

Credit: Films for Action

A film about the unprecedented transition that we are undergoing from a culture of industrial growth and inequality to what must inevitably be more localised, sustainable, living economies.

The Global Brain: Peter Russell

Credit: Films for Action

Explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being.

Law Enforcement Opposed to the War on Drugs 

Credit: Films for Action

Cops and former cops who have put in decades fighting the war on drugs speak out against prohibition.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 

Credit: Films for Action

Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, the film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist.

Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela’s Food Revolution 

Credit: Films for Action

Follows the filmmaker’s journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger.  It’s a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major environmental challenges.

Capitalism Is The Crisis

Credit: Films for Action

This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.

Sir! No Sir! – The GI Movement to End the Vietnam War 

Credit: Films for Action

This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion.

Breaking The Silence – Truth And Lies In The War On Terror 

Credit: Films for Action

A film with enormous emotional power, bringing us the human consequences of our military attacks on Middle East countries.

Zeitgeist: Addendum 

Credit: Films for Action

The film includes facts regarding the Federal Reserve System in the United States, the CIA, Corporate America and others, concluding the advocation of a libertarian movement called the Venus Project, created by social engineer Jacque Fresco.

The Soil Solution To Climate Change

Credit: Films for Action

What if that CO2 could be removed and stored in our carbon-hungry soil through land management practices? Find out how in The Soil Solution.

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