Although films have been engaging and inspiring audiences throughout their history, there is a recent shift in the media landscape over the past decade towards Hollywood taking a more active role in promoting social action through film. Companies such as Participant Media (An Inconvenient Truth, Food Inc., etc.) coordinate every film release with "extensive social action and advocacy programs which provide ideas and tools to transform the impact of the media experience into individual and community action." This is a relatively new field and little psychological work has been done in this area. Movies clearly have a role in inspiring/educating the masses about important social and environmental issues, but it is as yet unclear how to best go about this work. Behavioral insights from the field of psychology will be reviewed in an attempt to integrate them into the growing discourse of film and social change. The film featured in this session and a few others will be used as case studies to illustrate this work in both a theoretical and applied setting. Film has been studied extensively as entertainment, as narrative, and as cultural event, but the study of film as psychological intervention is still in its infancy and prime for growth.