If you’ve not discovered these films specifically designed to assist teachers in delivering dynamic lessons on contemporary key ethical issues – do yourself a favour and check out sample extracts from the Ethics Online films and teacher’s notes.
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS – $140 Â includes delivery
“This is an outstandingly engaging and timely resource that will grab the attention of students and persuade them of the significance of environmental ethics like never before.†  David Potter, Head of Religious Studies, Ashby School
“This finely crafted series pulls no punches in exploring the complex web of environmental issues facing us today. Unambiguous and beautifully filmed you’ll want to see them again…a fantastic resource.“ Andrea Gilpin, The Churchyard Conservation Charity
Gaia: By comparing the life of the planet to the life of a 45 year old woman, Gaia takes us on a breathtaking journey from our beginnings to these last few seconds of biological time which have witnessed our meteoric rise to ascendancy – but at what cost? (18 minutes)
Genesis: For 2.000 years, the Genesis injunction to have dominion over nature has been misinterpreted as a licence to dominate at all costs. But while Christianity might have been more concerned with saving souls than with saving seals is it solely to blame for today’s environmental crisis? (18 minutes)
Stewards & Slayers: Â Western civilisation has largely ignored Biblical and mystic calls to revere creation and today we face the stark realisation that in an interdependent world unethical stewardship of the animal kingdom ultimately afflicts us all. (21 minutes)
The Rapture: Christian fundamentalists believe that the environmental disasters we currently face are of little concern as they are signs that the Rapture is close at hand…for others however, visions of the end time have given new impetus to the principle of stewardship. (18 minutes)
All Things are Connected:Â While Christian colonisers, mapmakers, missionaries and mercenaries, believed that the natural world existed entirely for human gain, the indigenous Indians of the Americas experienced nature as a sacred web of interdependent phenomena. (16 minutes)
SEXUAL ETHICS – $140 includes delivery
“A valuable resource for teachers and students – well researched, thought provoking and visually stimulating†Andrew Pearce, Principal Examiner for Ethics
“A comprehensive philosophical survey that will usefully support a unit of work in this area†RE Today
Natural Law:  A rollercoaster tour of the history of sex – from the emergence of homo-erectus through to Aristotle, Aquinas, and the pioneering Kinsey Report – this film pursues an ethical theory that has dominated sexual ethics for over two thousand years – with no taboo unturned. (21 minutes)
Situation Ethics: “Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions†says Woody Allen – questions this film examines in the light of Joseph Fletcher’s groundbreaking Situation Ethics, first published in 1966. (23 minutes)
Utilitarianism: Does the sexual freedom enjoyed in today’s relativistic world make for “the greatest good� Are consequences all that matter in ethical decision making? (24 minutes)
Kant & Sex: Kant taught that as rational beings we all have intrinsic worth and should never use others as a means to an end. But is not sex, ultimately manipulative? (21 minutes)
WAR & PEACE – $110 includes delivery
“Students will learn more from these films than from any current textbooks on Practical Ethics. All schools should have a copy!†Jules Houghton-Wood, Sixth Form, Philosophy & Ethics Teacher, Stanground College, Peterborough
Made with much skill, this film explains clearly and succinctly the challenges faced by those who have the terrible responsibility of engaging in a war and how those who are engaged should behave. Highly recommended.†General, Lord Guthrie,  Former Head, British Army
Holy War: Wars fought in the name of religion have been going on for a very long time. From Old Testament injunctions to kill, through to the Crusades and 9/11, Holy War asks are there some things worth killing for – and are there some things worth dying for?
Just War: From Augustine and Aquinas to Afghanistan and Iraq this film covers the history and development of Just War Theory and its implications for armed conflict today (19 minutes)
The Priest who Blessed the Bomb: In 1945 a Roman Catholic priest gave the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima a Christian blessing. His personal testimony and those of survivors of the bombing graphically illustrate the ethical dilemmas of just war ethics in this haunting film. (10 minutes)
Contempt of Conscience: Conscientious objection to war has a long tradition and at the outset of the Iraq war in 2003 three Quakers continued this tradition by refusing to pay the military portion of their taxes in a search for less destructive ways of resolving conflict. (9 minutes)
ABORTION – $110 Â includes delivery
“I congratulate you warmly on this production, well balanced and full of fascinating history. Well worth screening outside classrooms too.”
Lord David Steel, Architect of the 1967 Abortion Act
Abortion: Ancient & Modern 1: In ancient times the dangers of abortion for women were compared with the dangers of war for men and little changed for thousands of years. This film, explores legal and ethical attitudes to abortion through the ages, highlighting key ideas such as Animation, Ensoulment, Quickening and The Born Alive rule. (18 minutes)
Abortion: Ancient & Modern 2: While advances in medical technology have given us a window on the womb as never before they also raise critical ethical questions about personhood, viability, selective abortion and embryology. This film also examines the pro-life and pro-choice positions and key concepts such as potentiality and personhood. (15 minutes)
Abortion: Ancient & Modern 3: The abortion debate is nowhere more hotly disputed than within the Christian religion and this film explores attitudes to abortion from the Early Church to the modern day Army of God, highlighting key concepts such as the Sanctity of Life, Delayed Ensoulment and The Principle of Double Effect. (19 minutes)
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