YouTube link to animated synopsis of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, animated by CliffsNotes, for Key Stage 2 students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkBp-2fAbiU
YouTube link to video of Oliver – You’ve got to pick a pocket or two by maiza, for Key Stage 2 students
Themes: Poverty, theft, resilience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HazQlWgdzg
This is a tough video about a project to feed the homeless and hungry in London
Themes: Poverty, hunger, charity, care, waste
An animated and slightly retold version of Tomi Ungerer’s classic story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfzUe26B2eo
The closer you are to death. The more you realize you are alive. The closer you are to death, the harder you cling to life. Simpson’s survival is widely rega… Concepts: trust, achievement, goals, endeavour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t65VrYZ2U9s
A video adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic for Key Stage 2 students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cOEFnppm_A
A short but powerful video of Ed Burtinsky’s photographs of the effect on the planet of ‘progress’.
Theme: environment
A social experiment is conducted in a park. Three people try to steal a bike out in the open. First, a white teenager. Then, a black one. Finally, a young blonde girl.
Themes: Discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, assumptions
Video based on Richard Dawkins quote from Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder “We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones”
Themes of luck, chance, evolution, paradise, genetics, infinite, death, nature, conservation
This is a BBC news report that shows people taking selfies with endangered dolphins on a beach. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-35606354
Themes: animal rights, respect