August 30, 2025

250 Free Full Movies from Shout Factory on Their YouTube Channel

There are a lot of legal distributors of free movies on YouTube these days. From the Official YouTube Movies Channel, which offers thousands of free ad-supported movies to dozens of smaller channels that license out movies. On our LearnOutLoud channel, we’ve put together a massive list of over 4,000 of the Best Free Movies on YouTube, and the popular list is approaching 1 million views. You can check out this playlist here:

4,000 Best Free Movies on YouTube

One distributor that’s been leading the way in offering their movies for free online is Shout Factory. Movie buffs have probably heard of Shout Factory. Since 2002, they’ve been releasing great movies and TV on home video, along with music releases. They license out movies from studios and release beautiful DVDs and Blu-Rays with top-notch film transfers. Thankfully for movie fans, Shout Factory has embraced the streaming age, offering hundreds of its movies on Amazon Prime, Tubi TV, Pluto TV, Plex TV, The Roku Channel, and the official YouTube Movie Channel. Shout Factory even has its own free ad-supported streaming website ShoutFactoryTV.com which streams even more of its releases. Shout Factory TV also has apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and other streaming devices.

For years now they’ve been adding hundreds of free full movies to streaming services like Tubi TV. You can check out some of their offerings on Tubi TV here:

Browse Shout Factory Movies on Tubi

Lately they’ve also been adding over 250 movies to their own YouTube Channel. And they’ve been adding them in full 1080p HD! You can browse their full free movies list here:

Free Full Movies from Shout Factory on YouTube Playlist

Below we’ll highlight some of they best free movies they’ve added that you can watch for free. We’ll list them in order by year and link directly to them on YouTube.

The 39 Steps (1935) – Classic British spy thriller from Hitchcock.

The Lady Vanishes (1938) – Another British thriller from Hitchcock, considered one of his best British productions.

49th Parallel (1941) – Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger team up for this British war drama.

In Which We Serve (1942) – Noel Coward and David Lean team up to co-direct this British patriotic war film.

The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) – Powell and Pressburger join forces to create this acclaimed wartime romance.

A Canterbury Tale (1944) – Powell and Pressburger direct this wartime film that covers the story of three young people.

Great Expectations (1946) – Director David Lean’s adaptation of the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens.

The Red Shoes (1948) – Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece covering ballet.

Oliver Twist (1948) – Director David Lean’s adaptation of the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens.

Hamlet (1948) – Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this William Shakespeare adaptation.

Hobson’s Choice (1954) – David Lean’s romantic comedy starring Charles Laughton.

A Night to Remember (1958) – Depicts the sinking of the Titanic long before James Cameron did.

Zulu (1964) – Epic British war film introduces Michael Caine in his first major role.

Voyage of the Damned (1976) – Drama about an ocean liner of Jewish refugees in 1939. With a great cast featuring Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, and Malcolm McDowell.

Piranha (1978) – Very funny Jaws rip-off directed by Joe Dante about mutant piranhas who attack swimmers in a river.

The Boys from Brazil (1978) – A thriller adapted from Ira Levin’s 1976 novel. Nazi hunter Laurence Olivier faces off against Gregory Peck as the villainous Dr. Josef Mengele.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) – Werner Herzog’s horror film casts Klaus Kinski as Count Dracula.

Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) – Super fun high school musical comedy even features the punk rock group Ramones.

The Stunt Man (1980) – Richard Rush’s movie about making movies. Peter O’Toole plays a director who offers a young fugitive a role as a stunt double.

Alligator (1980) – Fun creature feature featuring Robert Forster.

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) – Penelope Spheeris directs the ultimate L.A. punk documentary featuring many punk rock performances.

On Golden Pond (1981) – Prestige film from the Shout Factory! Stars Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda (in his final film), and Jane Fonda. Fonda and Hepburn won Best Actor and Best Actress at the Oscars.

Sophie’s Choice (1982) – Another prestige picture from Shout Factory, written and directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on William Styron’s 1979 novel. Meryl Streep is Sophie.

Sleepaway Camp (1983) – A classic summer camp slasher with an incredible ending. Must-see horror film.

The Protector (1985) – Jackie Chan tries again to break into the American film market but this failed at the box office.

The Stepfather (1987) – Terry O’Quinn is definitely The Stepfather!

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988) – Director Penelope Spheeris turns her camera on the L.A. heavy metal scene of the late 80s. Hilarious interviews with great concert footage.

Herdsmen of the Sun (1989) – Werner Herzog documentary covering the Saharan nomadic Wodaabe tribe.

Pacific Heights (1990) – Fun thriller starring Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine as they deal with the tenant from hell played by Michael Keaton. Directed by John Schlesinger.

A Midnight Clear (1992) – World War II film with a good cast including Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, and Kevin Dillon.

Dr. Giggles (1992) – Enjoyable and silly slasher film starring Larry Drake.

Judgment Night (1993) – Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, and Stephen Dorff pull into the wrong neighborhood and are in for a crazy night.

The Crush (1993) – Classic erotic thriller with Alicia Silverstone tempting Cary Elwes.

The Getaway (1994) – Action thriller directed by Roger Donaldson stars Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods and Jennifer Tilly.

Affliction (1997) – Acclaimed Paul Schrader film based on a 1989 Russell Banks novel, and stars Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, and Willem Dafoe.

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998) – Penelope Spheeris takes a look at the gutter punk lifestyle of homeless teenagers in this final film of her trilogy.

Animal Factory (2000) – Steve Buscemi directs this indie prison film starring Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, and Danny Trejo.

The Agronomist (2003) – Jonathan Demme did this documentary on Haitian journalist and activist Jean Dominique.

Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap (2012) – Ice-T travels from coast to coast interviewing rappers in New York and LA, and stopping in Detroit to interview Eminem.

Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019) – Documentary on the lead singer of INXS.

Many of these movies have territory rights, so sorry if you can’t stream them outside of the United States. As with any movies on YouTube, they might get taken down at any time, so watch them while you can. More movies are getting added to the Shout Factory YouTube Channel every week, so you’ll definitely want to subscribe!

July 19, 2025

Four PBS Frontline Documentaries on Poverty in America

Frontline’s investigative documentaries cover a wide range of issues in both the United States and worldwide. Since they began in 1983, they’ve produced over 800 documentaries. Many of these documentaries are now available on the PBS Frontline website and on YouTube. We link to over 250 of these documentaries on LearnOutLoud, which you can browse here:

Browse Over 250 Frontline PBS Documentaries on LearnOutLoud.com

Today, we’re highlighting four of these documentaries that cover poverty in America. Over 35 million Americans live below the poverty line, making up over 10% of the population. These documentaries feature personal stories of people living in poverty and the challenges they face.

1. Two American Families

To make this documentary, journalist Bill Moyers checked in on two middle-class American families in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for over two decades. Following the parents and their kids, this documentary shows their struggle to stay alive financially against an economy that is perpetually failing the working class. As wages stay stagnant over the decades, the cost of everything seems to rise, as these families struggle to pay their home payments, bills, healthcare, credit card debt, and more. Through it all, both families are resilient in the face of overwhelming financial stress. Both families are also remarkably honest about their financial situations, and you get to know them well on their emotional rollercoaster through the contemporary American economy.

2. Poor Kids

The documentary Poor Kids follows around three families as they struggle financially in 2012, and then follows up with them again in 2017 to see how they’re doing. The film is shown through the eyes of the kids in the family and how they view their situations and cope with growing up poor. As the parents struggle to pay the bills, get food, and find where they’re going to sleep at night, the kids have dreams of making more money in their future. Statistics on child poverty are shown throughout the documentary, with over 10 million kids living in poverty. The day-to-day struggles of the kids and parents in this documentary bring this reality home.

3. Growing Up Poor In America

This documentary takes a look at three families as they struggle with poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. It’s from the director of the documentary Poor Kids, and once again follows a kid from each of the families as they express the difficulties of living in poverty. All three families are in Ohio, and they deal with the emotional distress of being poor during the time of the coronavirus. The parents struggle to keep working, pay the bills, and keep their children’s education going. The kids struggle with what to do when they can’t see their friends. It’s a reminder of this challenging year in recent history, particularly for those living in poverty.

4. Left Behind America

This documentary takes a look at poverty in America through the lens of one of its cities: Dayton, Ohio. It takes a look at the history of what was once a bustling economic town that has since the 1980s lost its manufacturing base, and where over 30 percent of its residents now live in poverty. Along with economic hardship after the 2008 financial crisis, Dayton was also hit hard by the opioid epidemic. In this documentary, Dayton residents are interviewed about their financial and employment situation. Despite many of them working full-time jobs, they still struggle to make ends meet due to low wages and often need assistance. There are some signs of hope in the city, and the documentary highlights those as well.

Learn about this important social and political issue with these well-made documentaries from Frontline.

June 25, 2025

Watch Rick Steves’ 2009 Documentary on Iran

Rick Steves is known for his travel writing and TV shows like Rick Steves’ Europe. In 2008, Steves ventured out of his typical European travel itinerary and arranged to travel to Iran to film a documentary there in order to learn more about a culture he knew little about. This 55-minute documentary is available for free on YouTube:

Rick Steves’ Iran

Learn about the nation of Iran as travel writer and TV personality Rick Steves travels across the country to take in this vast culture. In 2008, Steves received permission to film a travel documentary in Iran as he sought to learn about a culture he knew relatively little. In this 55-minute documentary, you’ll get a brief history lesson about how Iran became a theocracy and why its government sees the United States and Israel as enemies. Beyond that, Steves mostly focuses on the contemporary culture of Iran, talking to many people in various cities along the way. Steves captures the rich Persian cultural history alongside the bustling modern cities showcasing daily living. He asks many questions and receives a lot of straightforward answers from Iranians. While he admits he was nervous from the outset of the trip, he came away with a deeper understanding of Iran and its people, and viewers of this documentary will as well.

And if you want to learn more about Rick Steves’ trip to Iran, then check out this well-presented talk from the Commonwealth Club of California available on C-SPAN:

Rick Steves: A Perspective on Iran

Travel writer and TV show host Rick Steves takes you behind the scenes of his documentary Rick Steves’ Iran (2009). In an effort to learn more about the Iranian people, Steves set out with a camera crew to explore Iran and share his observations. Steves acknowledges that Iran is not a free society and is a theocracy, but tries to steer clear of the political debates surrounding Iran. He instead focuses on the people he met there and the things they shared with him. He notes the irony that the people most anti-American there are the Iranians who hold up conservative family values, while the same might be true of conservative Americans who oppose Iran. The video contains a slide show of many of the things Steves witnessed. He attempts to humanize the Iranian people through travel and provides many similarities of their behavior to Americans. At the close of the talk, he answers questions mostly about how to travel to Iran.

And if you want to learn more about the history of Iran, check out this free public radio documentary:

My Name is Iran Audio Documentary from American RadioWorks

1979 marks the year that Iran became the world’s premiere theocracy. 27 later, this government, steeped in Islamic law, has shown no sign of loosening its grip on Iranian civil rights.

In My Name is Iran, released by American RadioWorks on streaming audio, we hear from modern Iranian voices as they speak on their current experience under this controversial government, how it has developed from what was once a paragon of Middle East democracy, and what a few courageous people are doing to counter the status quo.

This is a great primer in Iranian history and a wonderful way to learn more about what has recently become one of the world’s top geo-political hotspots. It is available for free on streaming audio from American RadioWorks.

June 21, 2025

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According to recent calculations, Audible.com now features over 1 million audiobooks! They truly blow the competition out of the water with their vast selection of audiobooks. And just in time for Prime Day 2025, they’re offering a pretty great deal to Prime Members. From now until July 31st, 2025, Prime Members can get 3 months of Audible Premium Plus absolutely free!

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With that deal, you get to choose one audiobook from their library of over a million titles during each month of the trial. These audiobooks are yours to own forever! Plus during the trial, you’ll get Audible Plus which features over 70,000 audiobooks to choose from that you can access and listen to at any time. You’ll also get member savings for any other audiobooks you purchase.

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June 3, 2025

20 Free Audio Guides to Classical Music

One of the best ways to learn about classical music is through audio learning. Skilled lecturers can take you through a piece of classical music piece by piece highlighting different significant elements of each work. That’s just what American conductor Gerard Schwarz has done with his educational Musically Speaking series:

Over 20 Musically Speaking Conductor’s Guides to Famous Classical Music Pieces

These guides are available to listen to for free on Spotify. On each album in the series, Schwarz provides a full recording of the work, followed by an hour-long lecture that incorporates excerpts from the music. He starts each lecture with a short introduction of the composer followed by a breakdown of their work. As he highlights different components of the piece, he’ll play a short piece of the music he is talking about. For example, here’s a review of his:

Conductor’s Guide to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons

In this free title from the Musically Speaking Conductor’s Guides Series, American conductor Gerard Schwarz breaks down one of Antonio Vivaldi’s most famous works. The album starts off with a full performance of Vivaldi’s four violin concerti The Four Seasons. Then Schwarz gives you a brief biography of the prolific Baroque master Vivaldi. He follows this introduction with a breakdown of each concerto for each season, movement by movement. Vivaldi wrote four sonnets to accompany the seasons, and Schwarz uses these sonnets to paint a picture of what the music was attempting to convey. Short pieces of The Four Seasons music are interspersed throughout Schwarz’s lecture. At the end of the lecture, Schwarz describes how Vivaldi’s work was rediscovered in the 1920s after fifteen volumes of his work were discovered in a monastery. Enjoy this brief introduction to one of the most famous works of classical music of all time.

Here are the other guides you’ll find in the series:

Conductor’s Guide to Handel’s Water Music in Three Suites Complete

Conductor’s Guide to Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 & Symphony No. 41

Conductor’s Guide to Stravinsky’s Petrouchka & The Rite of Spring

Conductor’s Guide to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 4

Conductor’s Guide to Strauss’ Thus Spake Zarathustra and Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome

Conductor’s Guide to Schumann’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A Minor & Symphony No. 3

Conductor’s Guide to Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 & Symphony No. 8

Conductor’s Guide to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, Das Rheingold, & More

Conductor’s Guide to Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique & Les Troyen: Royal Hunt and Storm

Conductor’s Guide to Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 & Variations on a Theme by Haydn

Conductor’s Guide to Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra

Conductor’s Guide to Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain & The Three-Cornered Hat

Conductor’s Guide to Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D Major & Symphony No. 103

Conductor’s Guide to Prokofiev

Conductor’s Guide to Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, & Fanfare for the Common Man

Conductor’s Guide to Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, No. 5, and Orchestral Suite No. 3

Conductor’s Guide to Chopin’s Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Nocturne in E-flat Major, & More

Conductor’s Guide to Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, In Nature’s Realm, & Carnival

Conductor’s Guide to Debussy’s Prelude, Nocturnes, & La Mer

Conductor’s Guide to Liszt’s Les Preludes & More

Conductor’s Guide to Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 & No. 4

Conductor’s Guide to Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 & 1812 Overture

Enjoy these guides to some of the greatest classical music of all time! And if you enjoy these, you might also enjoy the titles found in this blog post:

Free Introductions to 27 Great Operas on Audio

May 31, 2025

Three Talks on the Science of Sleep

Learn more about the science of sleep with these three talks from three different sleep experts! These talks will dive into why we sleep, how to get healthy sleep, and what happens when you don’t get enough sleep. We’ll start the list off with a talk from Dr. William Dement, who was a pioneer in sleep research. He passed away in 2020, but gave this excellent talk at Google back in 2008.

1. Dr. William Dement on Healthy Sleep and Optimal Performance

Dr. William Dement was one of the leading authorities on sleep, sleep deprivation, and sleep disorders. In the 1950s he was part of the sleep research team that discovered REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and connected it to dreaming. Since then he founded the Sleep Research Center at Stanford University and authored numerous papers and books on sleep, and he taught one of Stanford’s most popular courses called “Sleep and Dreams”.

In this one-hour talk at Google, Dr. Dement presents many of the findings he has made throughout his career. He talks about studies that reveal that healthy sleep is key to high-level performance and productivity and that the sleep debt of numerous nights without enough sleep causes a significant reduction in the quality of performance of physical and mental activities. Dr. Dement also speaks about sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy. Learn more about something you do every day with this enjoyable talk on sleep. If you liked his talk, check out his audio book: The Promise of Sleep.

2. Shawn Stevenson on Sleep Smarter

Shawn Stevenson is the host of the popular Model Health Show Podcast and the author of the book Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success. In this talk that Stevenson gave at Google, he offers a bunch of practical ways to improve the quality of your sleep which in turn will improve your overall health. He starts by explaining how getting enough sleep will help you burn fat to look better. He also emphasizes the importance of getting good sleep for improving your productivity by citing many studies. Stevenson then lists a variety of ways to improve sleep, from managing alcohol and caffeine consumption to reducing screen time right before bed. It’s an informative talk that will at least get you thinking about sleep, which the average person spends about one-third of their life doing.

3. Matthew Walker on Why We Sleep

Bad news for those of us who get less than 7 hours of sleep per night! Professor Matthew Walker is the Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, and in this talk at Google he shares his findings from his book Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. Basically, his findings are sleep deprivation leads to shorter lifespans, more cancer, less reproductive health, reduced ability to learn and remember, more mental illness, and a whole lot more disadvantages in life. The adage “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” never sounded more foolish than after listening to this talk. Walker answers many questions about sleep-related topics towards the end of the talk. And if you enjoy this talk you might want to check out his podcast, which is all about sleep: The Matt Walker Podcast.

Hopefully, these talks will give you some science-based tips for how to get healthier sleep!

May 30, 2025

4 Talks by Brene Brown on Shame & Vulnerability

Author and podcaster Brene Brown has written six bestselling books and hosts two podcasts: the Unlocking Us Podcast and the Dare to Lead Podcast. Her popularity exploded with her 2010 TED Talk The Power of Vulnerability which has now been viewed over 20 million times.

Her research and talks on shame and vulnerability have certainly struck a chord with millions of people. And all her books since then have been bestsellers, including The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, Dare to Lead, and Atlas of the Heart. Below we’ll highlight four talks that Brene Brown has given on these topics starting with her original TED Talk:

1. Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

Watch this powerful TED talk by author and researcher Brene Brown. In this insightful talk, she tells the story of how her social worker research lead her to study shame for over 6 years. Convinced she could use her data to deconstruct and control shame, she eventually came to a much different conclusion. She saw that the people who have a sense of love, belonging, and worthiness, also had a sense of vulnerability where they did not know the outcome of their decisions. This led to Brown having a “breakdown” in her own ideas of shame and worthiness, which lead to even more insight into how we numb our emotions to avoid vulnerability.

2. Brene Brown: Listening to Shame

Watch Brene Brown’s follow-up TED Talk to her popular talk The Power of Vulnerability. In this talk, Brene confronts the shame epidemic head on, and she explores how shame is brought about for men and women throughout our culture. She emphasizes that vulnerability is not weakness, but that it is at the heart of creativity and “daring greatly”.

3. The Courage to Be Vulnerable

Professor and author Brene Brown’s research on shame and vulnerability have hit home with many people as evidenced by her popular TED talk The Power of Vulnerability and her bestselling books including The Gifts of Imperfection and Daring Greatly. In this interview with Krista Tippett from the On Being radio show, Brene Brown tells the story of how she found out the characteristics of someone who is “whole-hearted” and how she discovered they were the opposite of who she was at time. In a culture that often demands perfectionism and shames those who fall short, Brown’s work has been insightful into how we can develop the courage to be more vulnerable and open to our own emotions, in our relationships, and in parenting.

4. Brene Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

This talk is also called The Power of Vulnerability, but it’s different from her TED Talk. In this talk from the RSA, Brown emphasizes the prevalence of fear and blame in contemporary society. When we go through the day’s news, it’s almost always concerning what we should be afraid of and who is to blame. Brown says this societal obsession also translates into our personal lives, which are plagued with fear and blame. She also points out the pernicious pervasiveness of shame and perfectionism. Brown encourages us to flip the script on these emotions by pushing us towards empathy and vulnerability. She defines the difference between sympathy and empathy and provides many examples of how we can put empathy to work in our daily lives.

Enjoy these talks from Brene Brown, and you can check out all her titles on our site here:

Brene Brown Audio & Video on LearnOutLoud.com

May 29, 2025

Watch for Free Bill Moyers 5-Part Documentary Series Healing and the Mind

In 1993, journalist Bill Moyers created a five-part documentary series looking to explain aspects of the mind-body connection and ways it can be applied in alternative healthcare. This series won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series and had a lasting impact on new ways people thought about healing and health. Two of the parts of the documentary are available on Vimeo and the other three parts available on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. You can check them all out at the links below:

1. Healing and the Mind: The Mind Body Connection

In this introduction to his 5-part series Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers takes a look at the mind-body connection and why separating the mind and body in medicine may be neglecting a powerful tool in staying healthy. Research has come a long way since this 1993 documentary in proving the importance of the mind-body connection for various illnesses. In this documentary, Moyers asks doctors and scientists fundamental questions about the mind and emotions and the role they play in our physical health. He follows patients who’ve tried Western medicine like medications without success and are turning to alternative treatments that relate to the power of the mind. Moyers even connects with a young Dr. Dean Ornish, who is utilizing diet, meditation, and group therapy to help treat heart disease. This is a good introduction to Moyers’ popular series.

2. Healing and the Mind: The Art of Healing

In this episode of the Healing and the Mind series, Bill Moyers goes into hospitals and interviews the doctors and patients involved in medical care in the United States. He explores the connection of mind and body through the relationships a patient has with his doctor and his support network of friends and family. He goes into a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and shows the bonding necessary to nurture a preterm baby. Moyers also is told again and again how a patient and their family need to take initiative in their own healing for the best outcomes. With the modern technology and busyness of today’s hospitals, they can often feel cold and intimidating, and Moyers seeks out a hospital that is looking to change this viewpoint with the help of mind-body medicine.

3. Healing and the Mind: Wounded Healers

In this episode of the Healing and the Mind series, Bill Moyers visits a one-week retreat for people who have cancer called the Commonweal Program in Bolinas, California. The program was founded by Rachel Naomi Remen and Michael Lerner who are both interviewed by Moyers in this documentary. They make no claims that alternative health can cure cancer, but they exist to deal with the holistic health of individuals. Most of the film focuses on a single group of people with cancer who are talking about their emotions over the course of a week. Along with talking about their disease, they participate in massage, yoga, creative arts, and other activities. This community-based approach seems to help the well-being of the group, even if some of them are preparing to die.

4. Healing and the Mind: Healing from Within

Bill Moyers investigates the connection between peace of mind and physical illness in this documentary that takes a look at the innovative work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. David Spiegel. We follow Kabat-Zinn as he leads a group of every day people dealing with chronic pain in guided mindfulness meditation at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Moyers also delves into a study Dr. Spiegel conducts with cancer patients on the emotional benefits of group psychotherapy. Both Kabat-Zinn and Spiegel approach these concepts of inner healing with a mainstream medical training background, but are open to finding new ways to help their patients heal, cope, grieve, and live with the stress of serious illness.

5. Healing and the Mind: The Mystery of Chi

In this hour-long episode of Bill Moyers’ Healing and the Mind series, Moyers travels to China to discover healing power of Chinese medicine and the mystery of Chi. Moyers is joined by Dr. David Eisenberg who served as the first U.S. medical exchange student to the People’s Republic of China and spent over 10 years there. Dr. Eisenberg teaches Moyers about Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, Chinese massage, tai chi, chi gung, martial arts, and the ideas of Taoism. Learn about Chinese medicine and health practices that have been around for thousands of years.

If you want to explore Moyers’s programs further, you can view a collection of over 800 programs in the Bill Moyers Collection on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting website:

Browse Over 800 Video Programs in the Bill Moyers Collection on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting

May 20, 2025

Tony Robbins Responds to the September 11th Attacks

Motivational speaker Tony Robbins has been leading seminars for decades. For an example of his seminars, check out the audiobook Unleash The Power Within. But nothing could’ve quite prepared Robbins for the seminar he gave on September 11th, 2001. He was giving a seminar on leadership and emotional mastery that day, and this video is a 2-hour condensed version of the seminar. The thumbnail isn’t showing, but the video still plays:

Leadership In Times of Crisis

Tony Robbins put up for free on his YouTube channel his 2-hour seminar “Leadership In Times of Crisis” which was recorded on September 11th, 2001. Robbins shows his leadership skills by weathering the emotional rollercoaster of the day and sharing dialogue with the wide array of responses to the attacks. He provides lessons in emotional mastery, demonstrating that the responses of individuals come from their habitual patterns, and pushes certain individuals to shift their response to a higher level. In the second half of the program Robbins facilitates a unique dialogue of peace between a Jewish man from New York and an Arab man who are both struggling with conflicting emotions over the September 11th attacks. Watch this free 2-hour seminar on YouTube.

May 20, 2025

Watch Wayne Dyer’s Documentary The Shift for Free

Dr. Wayne Dyer was the author of many self-help books from his 1976 classic Your Erroneous Zones to his bestsellers The Power of Intention (2004) and Change Your Thoughts – Change Your Life (2007). Dr. Dyer passed away in 2015, but one of his publishers, Hay House, is making sure his wisdom lives on. They’ve recently uploaded over 20 of his full-length talks to their YouTube channel for over 40 hours of Wayne Dyer wisdom:

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer Official Playlist on the Hay House YouTube Channel

One of the videos they uploaded is a two-hour documentary starring Wayne Dyer called The Shift (2009):

In this feature film that skillfully mixes drama and interview footage with Dr. Wayne Dyer, the viewer learns various lessons on how to overcome the ego, break the chains of self-driven ambition, and find personal purpose in life. In three parallel story-lines, a selfish business executive, a bullheaded film director, and an unfulfilled homemaker learn how to “find their nature” as Dyer puts it during a weekend retreat. This mix of fiction and documentary not only illuminates Dyer’s concepts through dramatic illustration, but also provides new footage of the popular speaker talking lucidly about concepts he’s spent a lifetime developing. It is now available for free to watch on the Hay House YouTube channel.

For much more from Wayne Dyer check out our author page on him:

Wayne Dyer Audio & Video on LearnOutLoud.com