STWR - Share The World's Resources

Edward Goldsmith, the grandfather of the modern environmental movement, argues that the planetary crisis facing us today cannot be solved by further economic progress and technological innovation, but only through the cooperation of ordinary people.

Scientific consensus now widely accepts the reality of global warming, but it has not always been this way. Dr Iain Stewart charts the history of climate science, dispelling the myths of climate change skepticism and making a prognosis for the future ahead.

In politics and business the triumph of the self is often seen as the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Adam Curtis'  Century of the Self tells the story of mass-consumer society in Britain and the US to question whether we really are in charge.

Orginally produced by Adam Curtis for the BBC, this documentary analyses the origins of the developed world's political understanding of freedom - a concept so blinkered that  it has left us in a trap of our own making and is compounding global inequality.

This documentary analyzes the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela as connected to the world-wide movement against economic globalization.

The Power of Community shows how Cubans have adapted to limited energy resources and the long standing US embargo by reverting to organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. A leading example of the value of small scale agriculture.

A documentary exposing how consumption and debt is encouraged by the banking industry which wields the power to influence government and society. Consumerism is now America's dominant economic engine and has created an unsustainable bubble that holds the majority in a crisis of perpetual debt.

A conversation with Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System", on the global food crisis, the breakout of food riots across many developing countries, and the long-term structural crisis in the international food system.

Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film describes the last moment when change is possible, and explores how humanity has arrived at this moment; how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course.

Two activists take on McDonald's in the longest trial in English history. McLibel is the inside story of how a single father and a part-time bar worker took on the McDonald's Corporation.