As a visual learner, I know the struggle of not wanting to read through dozen of articles and books to learn about something. The following films and videos are separated under different overarching topics that remain relevant to conscious consumerism. Watch and learn away!

sustainable Fashion

FILMS

• The True Cost

• Riverblue

• China Blue

• FREE Remake Films

• Elevating Black Voices in Sustainable Fashion

• The Fashion and Race Database

YOUTUBE

Informative

• The True Cost

• HM Conscious Label Not so Conscious

• Made in Bangladesh - the fifth estate

• Is Fashion Destroying the Planet? 

• Luxury: Behind the mirror of high-end fashion | DW Documentary

• How fast fashion adds to the world's clothing waste problem

• The Ugly Truth Of Fast Fashion | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj |

• The Robots Are Coming!- Copenhagen Fashion Summit

• Hard work. Fair reward? | Oxfam GB

Garment Workers First

• A Garment Worker's tale - Workers Need Safe Factories!

• What She Makes

Secondhand

• Second Chance Thrift Store

Natural Dyeing

• AYURVASTRA- Indian Fabric Made With Medicinal Dyes

• David Wolfe: On using Clothing dyed with plants/herbs for Wellness - a concept based on Ayurveda

Zero Waste

• Zero Waste Daniel

• This Designer Makes Zero- Waste Clothes: Zero Waste Daniel

Activism

• Clare Farrell | No Fashion on a Dead Planet | Extinction Rebellion UK

• How to change the garment industry? | Bangladesh Accord

Spirituality

• Redefining Fashion & Beauty - - Sabyasachi Mukherjee with Sadhguru

• Externals: How Personal Style Is Spiritually Empowering

Latinx

• Style, the Oaxaca Way | Vogue

• A Mexican & Indigenous Quinceañera | Pero like

• Why These Mexican American Women Are Crossing The Border Into Mexico | Style Out There | Refinery29

TEDTALKS

• Why Recycling Our Clothes Won’t Save The World | Leslie Johnston | TEDxINSEAD

• The High Cost of Our Cheap Fashion | Maxine Bédat | TEDxPiscataquaRive

ENVIRONMENTALISM

FILMS

• Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

• Before the Flood

YOUTUBE

• Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

• Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster

• Just Eat It- A Food Waste Story

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Films

• 13th

Youtube

• HONEST ADS by Cracked

Indigenous

• Lakota in America

• See What Canyon Life Is Like for a Navajo Pageant Winner | Short Film Showcase

• What Native Elders Think About Indigenous Cooking

• Inside an Apache Rite of Passage Into Womanhood

• Real Life As A Young and Native American | i-D

Black Lives Matter

• Colonial Crimes| DW Documentary

Poverty

• How poor people survive in the USA | DW Documentary

Capitalism

• Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film) | FRONTLINE

Charity

• The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong | TED 2013

Social Media

• The Social Media Beauty Cult DW Documentary

• You Will Wish You Watched This Before You Started Using Social Media | The Twisted Truth

Beauty

• The Truth About Where Hair Extensions Come From | Shady | Refinery29

Food

• The Secrets Behind Coca Cola’s Plastic Waste

• The Sugar Film

TEDTALKS

• How to End Racism | Dolores Huerta | TEDxOakland

• Lessons From a Tribal Prosecutor | TaNeel Filesteel | TEDxBozeman

• The Urgency of Intersectionality| Kimberlie Crenshaw TEDWOMEN