Applied Ethics: on-line video links arranged by specific areas

This research section contains links to video material selected for its moral education relevance. They are arranged according to areas of applied ethics.

The initial listing is embryonic and indicative. The expectation is that it will regularly increase as those using the section from across the world feed in further suggestions

Please send in any such additional links helpful for moral education to info@moraleducation.info. Indicate the category to which each suggestion belongs.

AREA OF APPLIED ETHICS

Animals

Is it ever right to experiment on animals? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zmz7p (10 mins) NB Contents not recommended for those under 16

Is it morally acceptable to kill animals for food? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAMk_ZYO7g&list=PLtKNX4SfKpzWO2Yjvkp-hMS0gTI948pIS (9 mins)

Positive and negative effects of hunting http://study.com/academy/lesson/positive-negative-effects-of-hunting.html (20 mins) sample high school lesson –purchase necessary for full access

Speciesism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVYaAtXDe0 (2 mins) An assertion of animal rights

Animal rights universal declaration? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2egxJ1YYKF4 (4 mins)

Animal rearing for traditional medicines https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DKVWfQrut-k (30 mins) Al Jazeera report on changing Chinese attitudes.

A Vegan view of leather http://www.peta.org/videos/cows-took-skin-back/ (1 min)

Are vegetarians healthier? (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0kaDWPED_U

Pros and cons of vegan and vegetarian diets. (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_E3iMrq-UA

Should we be vegetarian? (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnxPdAelqvo

Bullying

Nine pieces of practical advice
https://ideas.ted.com/9-pieces-of-practical-advice-about-bullying

How to stop a bully (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oKjW1OIjuw

Conflict, War and Peace

General

Is war increasing or diminishing?(6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbuUW9i-mHs

Sesame Street with Robin Williams: Conflict (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl3e-OUnavQ

How many countries has Britain invaded? (16 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86J_zZjjq4

Noam Chomsky on the war crimes of US presidents (11 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc

Non-violence and peace movements: crash course world history. (13 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP-mv5IjFzY

Swiss neutrality (19 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFh2zxQwxZI

War and Human nature https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NIgqS47m5k (10.5 mins)

10 talks on achieving peace http://www.ted.com/playlists/22/the_road_to_peace (5 – 20 mins) Topics include Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan; non-violent action; being son of a terrorist; playing World Peace Game

When is it right to go to war? (10 mins) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zmnr8 NB Contents not recommended for those under 16

Rules of War (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpzzAefx9M

Arms trade

The global arms trade is booming. (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RfyqhJmGIk

Top 10 largest weapons selling countries (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGj0gZM3gE

A rough guide to the UK arms trade (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGh5z3vYQs4

Arms trade (14 mins) http://www.ted.com/talks/samantha_nutt_the_real_harm_of_the_global_arms_trade

Specific conflicts

The Cold War

50 Insane Cold War facts (18 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWG6DaQpruY

Cuban Missile Crisis (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snc4g8yAURo

The Crusades

The Crusades: an Arab perspective (25 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HProiNnmGwI

The Crusades: a concise overview (6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBim4Ma0QKA

The Falklands War

The Sinking of the General Belgrano (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfPVRTIKobY

The Sinking of the General Belgrano (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8N32h1J7Y

Iraq

Iraq explained (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQPlREDW-Ro

Iraq: a deadly deception (48 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fNkeOZlM4U

Israel-Palestine

History (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wo2TLlMhiw

Lobby by Young Friends of Israel (25 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceCOhdgRBoc

Chomsky on Palestine and Israel (13 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n7hQKYh94g

Israel-Palestine Conflict: a brief history (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYZjOuUnlU

Promises and betrayals: Britain and the Holy Land (52 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBlBekw3Uk

World War One at home: conscientious objectors - several longer clips https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xl7mk

Epic history: World War One - 1914 (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwH1ZBnYds

WW1 Veterans recall executions (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzr39g0Yqdo

World War 2

The Fallen of World War 2 (19 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU

10 Myths about WW2 (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3w_eoL3XD8

The Nuremberg Trials (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL4RDFY1jcI

Yugoslavia

The breakup of Yugoslavia (17 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiSgAiM0d8A

Terrorism

Attraction of violent extremist groups to young people (12 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/erin_marie_saltman_how_young_people_join_violent_extremist_groups_and_how_to_stop_them?

http://www.ted.com/talks/gordon_brown_on_global_ethic_vs_national_interest (17 mins) With reference to economics, the environment and more generally where does the priority lie – nationally or globally?

What is the definition of terrorism? (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XzlmwYnXE

9/11 Timeline (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmedslmeiUc

Terrorism and the Media (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJvOJ4F12dE

Assessing the risks of terrorism (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3fG_0tZDB4

Weapons

Banned weapons (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwymzCmqB80

Land mines (6 mins)
https://www.ted.com/talks/carlos_bautista_the_awful_logic_of_land_mines_and_an_app_that_helps_people_avoid_them

Remote controlled weaponry http://www.ted.com/talks/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war (16 mins) use of robots and drones in warfare

Non-lethal weapons http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_coleman_the_moral_dangers_of_non_lethal_weapons (18 mins) Moral issues in use of weapons such as tear gas, pepper spray and taser.

What is Agent Orange? (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJaJbq9aRFI

What makes a weapon inhumane? (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET2eDuUVlxk

Cruel bombs (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZAaGidUbg

Why only 9 countries have nuclear weapons (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jfv-uvwF14

How close do you live to a nuclear bomb? (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXn5Ct0PJg

Crime and Punishment

Some factual claims regarding the death penalty http://www.factslides.com/s-Death-Penalty

What are the rights and wrongs of the death penalty? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zmps1 (10 mins)

The state of capital punishment (1 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zTbPLqqapw

Education as the solution to reducing crime (16 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4zW6y69l0

Top 5 Myths About Prison (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkVHUo7Kn4s

Alternatives to Prison (5 mins) https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/alternatives-prison

Live or die (7 mins) https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/live-or-die

Discrimination & Human Rights:

Human Rights - general

The Story of Human Rights (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh3BbLk5UIQ

Human rights in two minutes (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew993Wdc0zo

What are the universal human rights? (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgIVseTkuE

Civil Rights

History of the civil rights movement (6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM

Martin Luther King and civil rights of 1968 (44 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5EW5e86OBc

Martin Luther King: I have a dream (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE

Free Speech

Free speech: at what cost? (34 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8kcNJLpRJ4

Do college students hate free speech? (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_4-BqSIUD8

Free speech: crash course (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeeq0qaEaLw

Rowan Atkinson on England and freedom of speech (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3UeUnRxE0E

Free speech? (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNcYXCnQ5Rc

Free speech is vital to human flourishing (6 mins) https://aeon.co/videos/free-speech-is-vital-to-human-flourishing-but-it-s-in-a-decade-long-slump

Hate speech and censorship (3 mins) https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/568498/nadine-strossen/

Free speech v hate speech on college campuses (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_fYFSX5A44

Refugees

Moral issues in Europe’s migrant crisis http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/pa 5A44 ge/15/#29286 (7 mins) Stretching the capacity of immediate neighbours.

Seeking asylum http://www.truetube.co.uk/film/fighting-suppression (5 min)

What is asylum and how does it work? (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD-GlTseGSI

Asylum, human rights and international law (14 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0x8xef6euM

Immigration 101 (1 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGftwNQ_LXI

How does asylum work in the UK? (2 mins) https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2017/mar/07/how-does-asylum-in-the-uk-work-video

Economics

Defining poverty https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U5qig9HIJ7k (3.5 mins)

Who owns the world’s wealth? (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWd5udOTXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoyioIdhAmg (5.5 mins)

What is money? (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01IusDeSPE4

The link between extreme weather and extreme poverty http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2016/11/14/breaking-the-link-between-extreme-weather-and-extreme-poverty

What is money? (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpMB0Qhnp7E

Creating ethical cultures in business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzicXbnmllc (8 mins)

Pay day lending http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2016/06/03/august-28-2015-payday-lenders/26860/ (8.5 mins) Report from Alabama

Secret billionaires (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhQxhgmqv0

UK National Debt (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYmkJuj8yU

Explaining the National Debt (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0ln5kAKbY

What is Gross Domestic Product? (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjJmo5mN5yA

Nominal vs Real GDP (8 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqhTQyY6g4

Why some countries are poor and other countries are rich. (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4V3HR696k

Economic growth explained. (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC-U76O76X0

Environment

Some factual claims about sustainable development http://www.factslides.com/s-Sustainable-Development

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change (18mins) The moral force of evidence

Plastic pollution in Hawai’i (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBpHYLNtRA

Plastic in the ocean (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFZS3Vh4lfI

Gender

How does gender stereotyping affect boys and girls? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyFKYc4aTVI (15 mins)

Barriers to women being equal to men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayj9EVc2ZLI (45 mins)

Sexualisation of woman in media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebIKsjg6m9w (8 mins)

Commercial sexualisation of children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrE8bkWWFI (8 mins)

Lands, Houses of Widows Stolen by Relatives in Zimbabwe https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/19/widows-land-and-power (4 mins)

Lesbian, Gay. Bi-sexual and Transgender rights becoming mainstream http://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/videos (65 mins)

Harry Enfield. Women: know your limits! (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS37SNYjg8w

Yes Minister. Positive discrimination in theory and practice. (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZRDoGZg00

What is gender? (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seUVb7gbrTY

I've lived as a man and as a woman (16 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrYx7HaUlMY

Health & Medical Issues

Abortion

Some facts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v+vWKqe and comments

Pro-voice rather than Pro-life or Pro-choice http://www.ted.com/talks/aspen_baker_a_better_way_to_talk_about_abortion (11 mins)

Assisted death (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IsloHmKvWA

The ethics of abortion (40 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6JlcT1Ffi4

Abortion and personhood (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ezS5vQ1j_E

Addiction

The medical context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg (6 mins)

Antibiotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI4e2_HOzcs (30 mins) Anti-microbial resistance as discussed at World Health Organisation 2016 Conference on the Social Good

Digital addiction http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/page/7/#29965 (7.5 mins) Taking a break.

Bio-engineering

Advances in genetic engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY (16 mins)

The need for ground rules in bio-engineering http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_root_wolpe_it_s_time_to_question_bio_engineering (20 mins)

The ethics of gene testing http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/page/18/#26356 (6 mins)

Birth Control

The challenge of overpopulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348 (10 mins)

Human population through time (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUwmA3Q0_OE

Coerced sterilisations (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTGwxh3EHlY

Death

Living with dead bodies for weeks http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/magazine/160311-ngm-indonesian-death-ritual (4 mins) NB Discretion advised. Contains images that may upset some.

Looking at the fact that we will die http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_saul_let_s_talk_about_dying (14 mins)

How different cultures dealt with death (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE0RZCA8Oc4

5 After Death Theories (6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmaiy-JB9VE

Euthanasia

Friends arguing about assisted suicide (4 mins) http://www.truetube.co.uk/film/euthanasia-playing-god

Assisted death (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IsloHmKvWA

Five arguments for euthanasia (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaeKzLkZUrA

Writing your own end. (7 mins) https://www.truetube.co.uk/film/writing-your-own-end?tab=film

Gene patenting

http://www.ted.com/talks/tania_simoncelli_should_you_be_able_to_patent_a_human_gene (18 mins) The ethics of DNA patenting

The Gene Patent Question (11 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voozHXadYYE

Media

General

Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent (9 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBWfkE7BXU

How false news can spread. (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSKGa_7XJkg

How real is fake news? (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQcCIzjz9_s

Internet

How to identify and challenge questionable information Four separate talks https://www.ted.com/playlists/555/how_navigate_questionable_information

The threat to personal, political and social information flow from algorythms deployed by advertisers or partisan politicians.(23 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads

Internet: Use and abuse of the Dark Web https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzN4WGPC4kc (14 mins)

Social Media

Social Media: the twisted truth (14 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmEDAzqswh8

Are you living an Insta lie? (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EFHbruKEmw

The history of Social media (10 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0jRD7mn1k

Politics

Noam Chomsky on Neoliberalism and Democracy (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBzSLu3MZ6I

What is direct action? (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3QfoWcVcPI

Democracy: a short introduction (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jgWxkbR7A

So, what is democracy anyway? (13 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCJhSuLdok

Why vote? (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5PqRRvl30w

Why should I vote? (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Lv-0LQN-A

10 maps of the world (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbS5j2duV8

Race

Doll test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM (9 mins)

Black and shopping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAkDHuimJRc (8 mins)

How racist are you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYHBrJIIFU (45 mins)

Black History before Slavery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJy2oh3E_Xo (63 mins)

https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lessons-truth-and-reconciliation-process-21st-century-challenges (75 mins) Desmond Tutu lecture + discussion, applying process of overcoming apartheid to conflict resolution in Middle East

Denying the Holocaust http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/page/5/#32763 (3.5 mins)

Bayo Akomolafe – How I am unlearning my whiteness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqrI6MhI_Q

Jay Smooth – How I learned to stop worrying and love discussing race - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU

Leonard Gentle – The Starting Point is to Take a Moral Position on the Question of Inequality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lJanse16wI

Desmond Tutu in conversation about Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Healing: Lessons from South Africa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOaSbGD7Was

Dialogue between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu on compassion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0hR5cpHLg

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela – Forgiveness is possible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-tuebW-9D8

Religion

World Parliament of Religions http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/page/21/#27558 (2 mins) Focus of 2015 conference

Religion and politics http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/video/page/13/#29636 (7.5 mins) A former US senator – and Christian – reflects on a major change in what is regarded as normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVWOst7CfQs (15.5 mins) Palestinians: Would you marry a Jew?

How to show unity across different religions? (12 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/nabila_alibhai_why_people_of_different_faiths_are_painting_their_houses_of_worship_yellow

A Jewish Rabbi on doing religion differently (16.5 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/sharon_brous_it_s_time_to_reclaim_and_reinvent_religion

What is the Sikh religion? (4 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNh7QNRUVp0

What is Zoroastrianism? (11 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrZsFDlO5Tc

A brief introduction to the Baha'i faith (2 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHpOy7vgqtI

Baha'i: the chill religion? (12 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8_tMiLTG1Y

9 Core Quaker Beliefs (7 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H08cyXVYDw

What Mormons believe: the Book of Mormon (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beGIl8rDmQA

Sexual Behaviour

A Muslim argues for freedom to punish homosexual activity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJcBVX_0vI (10 mins)

Top 5 Prostitution Facts (6 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYBCyPMI7rM

Harmful sexual behaviour (3 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAfMww6DFY4

Sexual ethics and morality (5 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3t96H3FwEM

Sexual ethics (40 mins) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DR-NJtuksc

Sport

Sport as a vehicle for moral education? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHEntRq9k20 (8 mins)

Sport – an Integrity Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW8LBJxLPG0 (4 mins)

Winning with integrity. Leadership in sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX4Nvd8olx4 (75 mins)

Business and Ethics in Sports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EJmWo3qHCk (75 mins)

Sport – Gender Issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXhQDB-_dJ4 (3mins), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luadmO7Cugc (5 mins)

Sport – Sexualisation of female athlete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DveUbzcBe0A (7 mins)

Sport – documentary on Female in media coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVqHsMP-GTM (57 mins)

Sponsorship and cheating in sport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDtI__EoVoE (5 mins)

Applied Ethics: on-line video links arranged by specific areas

Animals

Bullying

Conflict, War and Peace

General

Arms trade

Specific conflicts

The Cold War

The Crusades

The Falklands War

Iraq

Israel-Palestine

Korea

Northern Ireland

Vietnam

World War 1

World War 2

Yugoslavia

Terrorism

Weapons

Crime and Punishment

Discrimination & Human Rights:

Human Rights - general

Civil Rights

Free Speech

Refugees

Economics

Environment

Gender

Health & Medical Issues

Abortion

Addiction

Bio-engineering

Birth Control

Death

Euthanasia

Gene patenting

Media

General

Internet

Social Media

Politics

Race

Religion

Sexual Behaviour

Sport