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Documentaries & Intelligent Conversations
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items Sometimes you just need to step away from social media and read a book or watch something thought-provoking. Here is a list of documentaries and intelligent conversations for you to watch/ listen to when you're tired of the endless scroll!
Sections
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Plant-Based Discussions
Environmental Discussions
Spiritual Discussions
Social Discussions
Woo- Woo
Misc
Plant-Based Discussions
If you're interested in watching documentaries that discuss the health benefits of a plant based lifestyle, this is the section or you. These discussions go into detail of raw vegan lifestyles, vegetarian lifestyles, as well as vegan lifestyles. In m...
This documentary details a family who do not shy away from eating meat. Some of them have been diagnosed with health conditions. They all agree to undergo a 30 health challenge where they only consume raw foods! The results are amazing!
Raw Vegan Diet Documentary | Raw Vegan Lifestyle Doc | Raw Food Documentary | Raw Vegan Weight Loss
This is a panel discussion where UC San Diego Center for Integrative Nutrition & the Berry Good Food Foundation host a panel of experts to discuss the rise of comprehensive medicine and nutritional healing to treat chronic disease and maintain ge...
LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE
Neal Barnard, MD, discusses the science behind how foods affect our hormones and our health. He also has a book, ‘Your Body in Balance.’ Where he shares how common hormone-related conditions such as ike infertility, weight gain, menopausal symptoms, ...
Neal Barnard, MD | How Foods Affect Hormones
This short flim discusses the power that humans have in their voice and their spending power. It showcases how veganism is on the move and rapidly growing.
VEGAN 2016 - The Film
You may recognize Joe Cross from"Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead." In this documentary he explores the power of juicing to lose weight, improve mental and physical health, and how his journey impacted the lives of others battling obesity.
Reboot
In this TedTalk, we hear from Sajeela, a raw cuisine chef, author, natural therapist and permaculturist. She is committed to sharing how to make raw food a way of life through simple and fun approaches to healthy living. Sajeela discusses the science...
The real deal on raw food | SajeelaCormack | TEDxPittwater
In this documentary you'll learn about starting out on a raw food diet. Weight reduction, detox and cleansing. It speaks about how raw foods are powerful medicines and tools when dealing with illness.
Raw Food Diet Documentary - part 1 of 2
Did you know that in the last century, 94% of the worlds seed varieties have disappeared? As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seed, farmers and indigenous keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food...
Seed: The Untold Story
Sugar Crash is a documentary that examines the health concerns around eating too much sugar. It takes a close look at sugar consumption in, and examines its long-term health effects. This documentary shows how the average adult gets more than four ti...
Sugar Crash (2016)
Environmental Discussions
We live in a world where humans are the only living beings that destroy their own habitat. It's incredibly sad. These documentaries and discussions focus on both the beauty and the issues circulating our environment.
Can you imagine a world where elephants are extinct? If you live long enough, you could live to see the day. Many of the animals we know and love are down to mere hundreds in existence. Oscar®-winning director Louie Psihoyos (THE COVE) assembles a te...
Racing Extinction
Have you ever thought about what happens to a water bottle once you've tossed it into the recycling bin? A Plastic Ocean is an award-winning feature length documentary brought to you by a group of dedicated scientists, film-makers, social entrepreneu...
A Plastic Ocean - The Movie
This documentary reminds us that animals aren't so different from people after all. They laugh, they cry, they play. They have family members that they love and enjoy being around.
Animals Are Beautiful People
This documentary showcases the intelligence of plants. They make themselves attractive to humans to advance their own agenda! The four species profiled in this documentary are the apple tree, which makes itself attractive to humans by being sweet, th...
The Botany of Desire (2009)
Spiritual Discussions
These discussions will leave you in awe of the power within you. Power which stems from and is rooted in the source of all creation, consciousness, intelligence and awareness.
Let's travel to Louisiana bayous. Learn of the indigenous tradition of faith healing, herbal remedy, and ritual magic. This documentary follows respected "traiteurs" who gather wild teas, brew homemade cough syrup, invoke the saints at home altars, a...
Good For What Ails You: Secrets of the Bayou Healers | 1998
If you truly want to learn and understand the law of vibration, this is the perfect documentary for you to watch. It discusses how our inner world reflect the outer world. It reminds us how everything is connected.
Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds
Social Discussions
It's no secret. We live in a digital age where the majority of our information can be accessed by the public with a click of a button. People are obsessed with their cell phones and sometimes you can't even trust that what you see is truth. These dis...
If you've yet to watch this documentary, please watch it right now, or at least today. It discusses how social media is build to train your mind to become addicted to dopamine hits. It's a little scary but informative.
'The Social Dilemma' - What is the social dilemma?
This documentary showcases how TikTok has changed the lives of hundreds of people seemingly overnight. TikTok currently has over 1 billion users on it's platform. What is it about this app that keeps people scrolling and scrolling and scrolling for h...
TikTok
This documentary is an eye opener when it comes to influencer culture. Sometimes people base their self esteem on the number of likes they get on a post and the amount of views they get on a post. Watch how ‘easy’ it is to become an influencer in tod...
Fake Famous
Do you really have privacy online? What if you have a private account? Do you read the terms and conditions before you check ‘agree?’ This documentary talks about data mining that occurs through social networking platforms, search engine queries, and...
Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Woo- Woo
These discussions will have you scratching your head wondering, ‘what if.’ It speaks of the fascinating wonderous mysteries in our existence.
No one knows for sure where we were before we came to earth. No one knows for sure where we go when we leave earth. Where is here? What if the ‘here’ that we experience isn't really ‘here’ after all?
The Simulation Hypothesis (2015)
You've heard it said that there is power in the ‘369.’ In today's modern age, people love to speak about Nikola Tesla and how he transformed the world. People often refer to him when talking about manifesting and harnessing the power within. Learn ab...
Tesla: Master of Lightning (2000)
This four part docu-series chronicals what is space, the illusion of time, quantum leaping and the theory of a universe vs a multi-verse. Grab your tea and some snacks because this is a good one!
The Fabric of the Cosmos (2011)
Misc
Here are a few discussions that don't quite fit into the other categories but are still worth the watch!
Women bring forth life, that means we've been here since the origin of life. Having a menstrual cycle is a part of womanhood. How is it that so many women across the world are suffering in silence due to lack of feminine hygiene products?
Period: End of Sentence (2018)
This documentary will make you wonder about the people who help keep our world going. We love to shop and purchase new clothing and new technology. Rarely do we think about where those items come from, or where they go when we discard them.
The True Cost (2015)
When I was in school, it would be an automatic fail if we attempted to source a wiki article. This documentary explores what Wikipedia is, and who its contributors actually are.
The Truth According To Wikipedia (2008)