The Kendall Campus Library previously housed 58 animal ethics videos, mostly VHS tapes from the mid 1980's to the early 2000's. This page contains films from the library's animal ethics collection that have been made available online by their creators and are free to view and share electronically.
Many of these films contain graphic and disturbing content.
Use the search box below to find videos in the MDC Libraries' collection. If desired, replace "animal ethics" with other keywords such as animal experimentation, animal rights, etc.
Shows the lives and deaths of chickens, turkeys, cows and pigs raised in factory farms and processed in slaughterhouses. It presents a case for vegetarianism and the ethical treatment of animals.
Documentarian Jennifer Abbott presents interviews with animal rights activists, agribusiness representatives and animal welfare experts to explore her thesis that social forces in our society conceal, distort and legitmize factory farming with perilous repercussions to animals, humans and the environment.
Fashion designer Stella McCartney narrates this exposé of a "modern" U.S. fur farm, where animals spend their lives confined to cramped, filthy cages before being cruelly killed for their pelts. Shows injured foxes and other animals, suffering without any medical treatment. The animals are killed by anal electrocution, a crude method that causes them to feel the full excruciating force of a massive heart attack.
Steve Hindi, president and founder of Showing Animals Kindness and Respect (SHARK) exposes acts of cruelty against animals in rodeos.
The story of orca whales removed from the wild and sold to marine parks.
Discusses the work of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing and eliminating animal abuse in laboratories, on factory farms, and in the fur trade.
Documentary that tells the story of Eddie Lama, a construction contractor from a violent neighborhood in Brooklyn who grew up in a family that disliked and avoided animals. Includes shocking undercover video footage that shows animal cruelty and the injustice of animal exploitation. Describes how individuals can help animals in unique and inspiring ways, how one person can make a difference, and how each of us can play a role in creating a kinder world for both animals and people.
A documentary whose stated aim is to debunk the myth that animal research saves human lives.
Documents unnecessary cruelty in animal testing facilities.
Shows how chimpanzees in a federally funded laboratory suffer in reinforced steel chambers with disease and loneliness until their death.
Looks at the manner in which cats and other animals are purchased and killed by biological supply companies before being sold to America's classrooms. Suggests educational alternatives to classroom dissection.
PETA’s undercover investigation of animal abuse at a laboratory in Silver Spring, Maryland, led to the first-ever criminal conviction of a U.S. experimenter on animal cruelty charges.
This page was created by Barbara Joy and is maintained by Jenny Saxton.