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

Not Business As Usual 

Credit: Films for Action

A provocative look at capitalism and its unintended price of success. The film tracks the changing landscape of business with the rising tide of conscious capitalism through the stories of local entrepreneurs who have found innovative ways to bring humanity back into business.

Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics

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The film offers an in depth look at the influence of money in politics–analyzing social forces and events that the mainstream media and scholarship have largely distorted or kept hidden. It also analyzes the meaning of democracy.

DIVE! Living Off America’s Waste

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The multi award-winning documentary DIVE! follows filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of Los Angeles’ supermarkets.

Unwasted: The Future Of Business On Earth

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Presents the alluring ideal of zero waste as a key element of the sustainable business model.

Waste = Food 

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The German chemist, Michael Braungart, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the technosphere (all the technical products we make), produc­tion and consumption could become beneficial for the planet.

The Evilness of Power

Credit: Films for Action

Examines the ways in which power and hierarchy affect individuals, society, and the world at large. It’s possibly the best film on the subject ever made.

Enough Is Enough 

Credit: Films for Action

Lays out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is enough, not more.

END:CIV 

Credit: Films for Action

Examines our culture’s addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations.

Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Prices

Credit: Films for Action

The film exposes Wal-Mart’s unscrupulous business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Walmart executives.

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun 

Credit: Films for Action

This video illuminates this hidden sphere of public relations in our culture and examines the way in which the management of “the public mind” has become central to how our democracy is controlled by political and economic elites.

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