This list contains media that discuss vegan messages and ideas. They generally involve the discussion of the vegan philosophy and diet in relation to ethics, environmentalism, and nutrition.
| The Animals Film | 1981 | Ethics | |
| Diet for a New America (film) | 1991 | Environment & Health | |
| A Cow at My Table | 1998 | Ethics | |
| Meet Your Meat | 2002 | Ethics | |
| Peaceable Kingdom | 2004 | Ethics | |
| Earthlings | 2005 | Ethics | |
| Sharkwater | 2006 | Ethics, Wildlife | |
| A Sacred Duty | 2007 | Ethics | |
| 2009 | Ethics | ||
| Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead | 2010 | Health | |
| Planeat | 2010 | Health | |
| Forks Over Knives | 2011 | Health | |
| Vegucated | 2011 | Ethics | |
| Live and Let Live | 2013 | Ethics | |
| 2013 | Ethics | ||
| Cowspiracy | 2014 | Environment | |
| Lucent | 2014 | Ethics | |
| PlantPure Nation | 2015 | Health | |
| Racing Extinction | 2015 | Environment | |
| Unity | 2015 | Ethics | |
| Carnage | 2017 | Ethics | |
| What the Health | 2017 | Health | |
| The Last Pig | 2017 | Ethics | |
| Sharkwater Extinction | 2018 | Ethics, Wildlife | |
| Dominion | 2018 | Ethics | |
| Eating You Alive[1] | 2018 | Health | |
| The Game Changers | 2018 | Health | |
| Saving Jaws | 2019 | Ethics, Wildlife | |
| Seaspiracy | 2021 | Environment | |
| Eating Our Way to Extinction | 2021 | Environment | |
| Slay | 2022 | Fashion | |
| 2024 | Health |
| Animal Equality[2] | 2001 | Joan Dunayer | Ethics | |
| Speciesism[3] | 2004 | Joan Dunayer | Ethics | |
| Diet for a New America | 1987 | John Robbins | Diet | |
| The Case for Animal Rights | 1983 | Tom Regan | Ethics | |
| Animal Liberation | 1975 | Peter Singer | Ethics | |
| Bleating Hearts[4] | 2013 | Mark Hawthorne (author) | Ethics | |
| Change of Heart[5] | 2011 | Nick Cooney | Ethics | |
| The Sexual Politics of Meat | 1990 | Carol J. Adams | Ethics | |
| Eat Like You Care[6] | 2013 | Gary L. Francione | Ethics | |
| Eating Animals | 2009 | Jonathan Safran Foer | Ethics | |
| Cooked Raw | 2015 | Matthew Kenney | Autobiography | |
| The End of Animal Farming | 2018 | Jacy Reese Anthis, Tom Rivera | Ethics | |
| The Lives of Animals | 2016 | J.M. Coetzee | Ethics | |
| Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows | 2009 | Melanie Joy | Ethics | |
| Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation | 2017 | Sunaura Taylor | Ethics | |
| Walking with Peety | 2017 | Eric O'Grey | Autobiography | |
| How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach[7] | 2017 | Tobias Leenaert | Activism | |
| BOSH! | 2018 | Henry Firth and Ian Theasby | Cookbook | |
| The Militant Vegan | 2019 | Peter Young, Animal Liberation Front | Activism | |
| This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) | 2022 | Earthling Ed | Activism, Ethics, Health and Environment | |
| How to Argue with a Meat-Eater (And Win Every Time) | 2023 | Earthling Ed | Activism, Ethics, Health and Environment |