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Description: This project details the development of a cue-rich moral and affective film set (MAAFS). We crowd-sourced videos of moral behaviours, using previously validated text stimuli and definitions of Moral Foundations as a guide for content. Crowd-sourced clips were validated and normed by 322 Americans and 253 Australians who rated the videos on a battery of moral and affective dimensions, including wrongness, moral foundation relevance, punishment, arousal, discrete emotions, clarity, previous exposure, and how weird/uncommon the moral acts were. Sixty nine moral videos formed the final stimulus set. Ratings confirm that the videos are reliably rated as morally wrong, are clearly interpretable, and feature a variety of moral concerns. The validation study revealed features that make the MAAFS useful for future research: (1) the MAAFS is ecologically valid and includes a range of videos that depict everyday transgressions, (2) certain videos evoke a number of negative emotions at an intensity comparable to mood induction films, (3) the videos are largely novel: participants had never seen more than 90% of the videos. We anticipate the MAAFS will be a particularly valuable tool for researchers in moral psychology who seek to explore the structure of morality in scenarios that approximate real-life. However, the MAAFS may be valuable for other fields of psychology, for example, affective scientists may utilize these videos as a mood induction procedure. The complete stimulus set, links to videos, and normative statistics can be accessed in the files contained here.