Educational Videos About Media, Culture, and Society For the Classroom

Billionaires' Tea Party, The

How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution

Examines how corporate elites are exploiting the anxieties of ordinary Americans to advance a narrow, often anti-democratic, agenda. more...

Bro Code, The

How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men

Takes aim at the forces in male culture that condition boys and men to dehumanize and disrespect women. more...

Five Friends

Beautifully shot, Five Friends follows a 65-year-old man and his 5 closest friends as they navigate and reflect on success, conflict, marriage, divorce, fatherhood, children, and dying. more...

How To Start a Revolution

Now Available! How an obscure list of non-violent actions authored by Gene Sharp in 1973 has served as a blueprint for anti-authoritarian revolts everywhere from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to the Arab Spring uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. more...

Just Do It

A Tale of Modern-Day Outlaws

Just Do It gives us a thrilling inside look at the kinds of direct-action campaigns that are now sweeping the globe in local Occupy movements, showing us how everyday people can use the tools of civil disobedience to make meaningful change. more...

Latinos Beyond Reel

Challenging a Media Stereotype

In Production! Uncovers simultaneous patterns of gross misrepresentation and under-representation of Latinos in mass media. more...

Mic Check

Documentary Shorts from the Occupy Movement

Made by Occupy protestors, these short films offer snapshots of a movement in progress -- a vivid glimpse into the human costs of Wall Street's rapacious behavior, and twenty-first century activism. more...

Not Just a Game

Power, Politics & American Sports

Dave Zirin demonstrates how gender, race, and politics intersect with sports. more...

Returning Fire

Interventions in Video Game Culture

A new documentary about video game violence that forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the tools of war become forms of consumer play. more...

The Purity Myth

The Virginity Movement's War Against Women

Now Available! Pioneering feminist blogger Jessica Valenti targets the myth that the worth of a woman depends on what she does or does not do sexually. more...

Understanding Hookup Culture

What's Really Happening on College Campuses

This lecture by Stanford University's Paula England, a leading researcher in the sociology of gender, examines the phenomenon of hooking up. more...