Membership
Annual Membership is only £59 allowing you access to all 42 streamed films specifically made for core specifications of A Level Religious Studies, Philosophy & Ethics.
Extensive Teaching Resources and Classroom Activities accompany each film.
Membership entitles all your students access to the 42 films in the classroom, in their own time, or at home.
Written and directed by subject specialists delivering exactly what your students need, including ‘for and against’ arguments.
Sumptuously and professionally produced films that will long remain in your students’ minds, more stimulating than PowerPoint or textbooks.
Infinitely adaptable with some films relevant to GCSE.
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WHAT’S INCLUDED
The films are broken down into topics and titles. Please see below for a list of what’s included in each title. You can also get a detailed idea on the individual film pages. Each film is accompanied by extensive Teachers’ Notes, timed coded Scripts and classroom activities.
Ethical Theory 1 Films
Metaethics
- What kind of statements are moral claims?
- GE Moore – Intuitionism, simplicity and ‘yellow’
- AJ Ayer – Emotivism Yah/Boo, Hare Prescriptivism
- Criticisms and counter arguments
Situation Ethics
- Situation Ethics in context – Agape
- Legalism, Antinomianism and Middle Way
- 6 Propositions and 4 Working Principles
- Criticisms
Kantian Ethics
- A priori, Analytic – a posteriori, Synthetic
- Principles of Categorical Imperative
- Postulates of Practical Reasoning
- Criticisms and counter arguments
Ethical Theory 2 Films
Virtue Ethics
- Virtue as opposed to duty based and consequentialist theories
- Homeric virtues and Arete
- Aristotle’s virtues, Golden Mean and Eudaimonia
- Alisdair MacIntyre ‘After Virtue’, Elizabeth Anscombe & Philippa Foot.
- Criticisms
Natural Law
- Natural Law at Nuremberg war trials
- Roots in Aristotle and Cicero
- Aquinas’ kidnap – Primary and Secondary Precepts
- Interior and exterior acts, motive and consequences, Double effect, ut in pluribus, proportionalism
Utilitarianism
- Epicurus and the pursuit of happiness
- Bentham and the Hedonic Calculus, quantity
- Mill, Rule Utilitarianism, strong and weak varieties, liberty and freedom
- Criticisms of utilitarianism
Life After Death Films
- The search for Immortality: Materialism, Dualism, Monism
- Resurrection of the Body
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Immortality of the Soul
- Reincarnation
- Parapsychology
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Resurrection (view excerpt)
- The Immortality of the Soul (view excerpt)
Problem of Evil Films
- Theodicy
- Natural/Moral evil
- Augustinian Theodicy
- Irenaean Theodicy Hick
- Process Theodicy
- Monism
- Freewill Defence
- Protest Theodicy
- The Holocaust
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- The Irenaean Theodicy (view extract)
Christianity Films
- The Jewish cultural and religious background to Christianity
- Trinity and Incarnation: Arian Controversy Nicene Creed
- Atonement Theories: Ransom, Satisfaction, Penal Substitution theories and Christus Victor
- Dare to Know: Differing perspectives of Barth and Hick
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Roots Christianity (view excerpt)
- The Coming Of The Christ (view excerpt)
- Defeating Evil (view excerpt)
- Dare To Know (view excerpt)
Abortion Films
- History of: Aristotle, Ensoulment, Quickening, Born Alive Rule
- Pro-choice, Pro-life, Personhood, Viability
- Churches’ views, Sanctity of Life, The Principle of Double Effect
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Abortion (view excerpt)
Environmental Ethics Films
- Dominion/Domination, The Scientific Method, Rise of Environmentalism
- Stewardship (OT/NT), Biodiversity
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End-time Theology, Climate Change
- Rainforests, Native American Indians, Activism
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Environmental Ethics (view excerpt)
War and Peace Films
- Holy War, The Crusades
- Just War Theory
- The Priest who blessed the bomb WMD
- Conscientious objection
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Just War (view excerpt)
Sex and Ethics Films
- Sex and the theory of Natural Law
- Sex as interpreted by Situation Ethics
- A utilitarian approach to matters of sexual ethics
- A Kantian approach to sex
Teaching Resources & Teaching Ideas
- Sex and Ethics (view excerpt)
Mysticism
- Otto and The Numinous
- The Perennial Philosophy
- William James, WT Stace & Happold
- God, Soul & Nature Mysticism
- Natural Philosophy & Modern Science
- Mysticism & Empiricism
- Freud and Jung on Mysticism
- Consciousness