Documentaries (Solarpunk)

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Tokelau - the first nation to be completely solar powered (youtu.be)

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This documentary tells the story of 3 small atolls in the Pacific that overcame their isolation and dependence on diesel generators to become the first 100% solar powered nation in the world. It also gives a unique insight into their sharing-based way of life - their fishing and cooking traditions, education, religion and political life.

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The Seventh Day (1970) (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Burnout - When does work start feeling pointless? | DW Documentary (www.youtube.com)

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Control Room [2004] (yt.artemislena.eu)

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The Devil We Know - Exposes how DuPont knowingly polluted the water and air of West Virginia with toxic 'forever' chemicals for decades, and gives voice to those who were deeply effected. (www.youtube.com)

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Getting to Mars isn’t enough: Why staying alive will be the biggest challenge (youtu.be)

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The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time (yt.artemislena.eu)

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The Coca Cola Case (2013) - Coca-Cola used right wing hit squads to murder trade unionists in Colombia. A story of corporate greed, injustice and state collusion. (www.youtube.com)

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The One Percent | A documentary created by the heir of Johnson & Johnson, who is able to extract candid admissions of the rich's obsession with wealth and power, and how they justify exploitation. (www.youtube.com)

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Vegas Tunnels - A humanistic and non-exploitative documentary on the true story of the downtrodden who live in the tunnels under the strip, and of the people who help them. (www.youtube.com)

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EDIT: The documentary has been taken down due to a copyright strike from Fox.

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The Century Of Self, Part 1: Happiness Machines - A series about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the masses in an age of mass democracy | Adam Curtis (peertube.uno)

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Paywall: The Business of Scholarship | a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science (paywallthemovie.com)

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Download Link - released under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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The Dirty War: The Horrors Of The Argentine Dictatorship | How one Journalist dared to write about the kidnapped children of thousands of Mothers | Timeline (www.youtube.com)

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The Skeletons of Spain’s Fascist Past (yt.artemislena.eu)

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For Migrant Women Farmworkers, Abuse Often Comes with the Job (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (www.youtube.com)

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2040: a documentary that explores what the future could look like if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream (www.youtube.com)

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Unfortunately, this is a Free with ads Youtube Movie. What that means is that there isn't really a way to watch this with an adblocker on mobilem, and it will prompt you to open the youtube mobile app to watch it. However, adblockers do work on desktop browsers, so I'd recommend watching it there.

The documentary, while treading slightly techno-optimistic in a couple areas, overall does a pretty great job of presenting a solarpunk-ish future, with some suggestions for worthwhile solutions that could be implemented quickly. Overall, I think it's worth a watch.

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Hurricane Katrina and Organized Abandonment | How the state abused the people most in need of help, and why the solution is building community solidarity (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (yewtu.be)

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Nowtopia: A documentary about economic alternatives (www.youtube.com)

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Deadly bargain: Western markets and violence against Indigenous people - Commodities, produced at the expense of people's rights, health and safety, are being sold by EU and UK (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Disaster capitalism - How financial markets benefit from the climate problem (youtu.be)

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Thailand's Seafood Slaves: human trafficking, slavery and murder in Kantang's Seafood Industry (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Putin's Russia: The Opposition - Russian journalist Mascha Borzunova and Russian actor Jean-Michel Scherbak give voice to people Putin wants to silence: dissidents, opponents, and artists | ARTE.tv (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Arizona Border Crisis | Channel 5 (yt.artemislena.eu)

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Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending (www.filmsforaction.org)

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Our present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future.

Fortunately, visions of a more beautiful, compassionate, regenerative future already exist. But since they're not being broadcast daily on the evening news, we've got to dedicate a little more energy to broadcasting them ourselves.

This is what this list of films is for. These films decided that the apocalypse is canceled. Climate change is canceled. Biodiversity loss is canceled. A comeback of this scale has never been attempted before, but that's why it's going to work. Ya dig? The people in these films aren't listening to the folks that say it's too late. They're imagining the future they want, not the future they're afraid of, and they're bringing that future into being.