TED Talks

865–912 of 2,913 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

Where these films come from, and who sees what

Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.

Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Sexual content and nudity are left out altogether.

Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Ze Frank's web playroom 2010 · Talk · 18 min On the web, a new "Friend" may be just a click away, but true connection is harder to find and express. Ze Frank presents a medley of zany Internet toys that… Internet Archive Jeff Iliff: One more reason to get a good night’s sleep 2014 · Talk · 11 min The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body's mass. So how does this unique organ receive… Internet Archive Rob Harmon: How the market can keep streams flowing 2011 · Talk · 8 min With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon has implemented an ingenious market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer… Internet Archive Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work 2014 · Talk · 12 min In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story… Internet Archive Jane Fonda: Life's third act 2012 · Talk · 11 min Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy -- and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. At TEDxWomen, Jane… Internet Archive Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars 2010 · Talk · 16 min At TEDxNASA, planetary scientist Joel Levine shows some intriguing -- and puzzling -- new discoveries about Mars: craters full of ice, traces of ancient… Internet Archive Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful 2018 · Talk Finding a job used to start with submitting your résumé to a million listings and never hearing back from most of them. But more and more companies are using… Internet Archive Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war 2013 · Talk · 11 min Reporter Janine di Giovanni has been to the worst places on Earth to bring back stories from Bosnia, Sierra Leone and most recently Syria. She tells stories… Internet Archive Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China 2011 · Talk · 21 min Speaking at a TED Salon in London, economist Martin Jacques asks: How do we in the West make sense of China and its phenomenal rise? The author of "When China… Internet Archive Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels 2013 · Talk · 17 min Up to 100,000 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the last 6 years. We might think this has nothing to do with us, but in fact we are all… Internet Archive Tracee Ellis Ross: A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom 2018 · Talk The global collection of women's experiences can no longer be ignored, says actress and activist Tracee Ellis Ross. In a candid, fearless talk, she delivers… Internet Archive Daniel Pauly: The ocean's shifting baseline 2012 · Talk · 9 min The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each… Internet Archive Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter 2011 · Talk · 4 min Volunteer firefighter Mark Bezos tells a story of an act of heroism that didn't go quite as expected -- but that taught him a big lesson: Don't wait to be a… Internet Archive Natalie MacMaster fiddles in reel time 2007 · Talk · 5 min Violinist Natalie MacMaster and TED Musical Director Thomas Dolby play Dolby’s original song “Blue Is a River” in this ethereal duet -- with a little dancing. Internet Archive Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law 2014 · Talk · 15 min Every human deserves protection under their country’s laws — even when that law is forgotten or ignored. Sharing three cases from her international legal… Internet Archive Lewis Pugh swims the North Pole 2009 · Talk · 18 min Lewis Pugh talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He braved the icy waters (in a Speedo) to highlight the melting icecap. Watch for… Internet Archive Michael Green: How we can make the world a better place by 2030 2015 · Talk · 14 min Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governments of the world think we can. Meeting at the… Internet Archive Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local 2015 · Talk · 16 min When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at… Internet Archive Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny? 2011 · Talk · 18 min Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it's often a fuzzy line between male… Internet Archive Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York 2009 · Talk · 11 min In this captivating talk from the TED archive, cartoonist Ben Katchor reads from his comic strips. These perceptive, surreal stories find the profound hopes… Internet Archive Craig Venter on DNA and the sea 2007 · Talk · 16 min Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its… Internet Archive Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing 2013 · Talk · 15 min Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start… Internet Archive William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is) 2014 · Talk · 18 min William Black is a former bank regulator who’s seen firsthand how banking systems can be used to commit fraud — and how “liar's loans” and other tricky… Internet Archive Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender 2011 · Talk · 8 min Media and advertising companies still use the same old demographics to understand audiences, but they're becoming increasingly harder to track online, says… Internet Archive Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes! 2016 · Talk · 15 min Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed… Internet Archive Dale Dougherty: We are makers 2011 · Talk · 11 min America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine… Internet Archive Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life 2017 · Talk The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to… Internet Archive The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves ... 2010 · Talk · 17 min The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED2010 stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. In a… Internet Archive Bruce McCall's faux nostalgia 2009 · Talk · 12 min Bruce McCall paints a future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World." At… Internet Archive Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome 2012 · Talk · 16 min In Western society, bats are often characterized as creepy, even evil. Zoologist Emma Teeling encourages us to rethink our attitude toward bats, whose unique… Internet Archive Eva Zeisel on the playful search for beauty 2008 · Talk · 18 min The ceramics designer Eva Zeisel looks back on a 75-year career. What keeps her work as fresh today (her latest line debuted in 2008) as in 1926? Her sense of… Internet Archive Jeff Hancock: 3 types of (digital) lies 2012 · Talk · 18 min Who hasn’t sent a text message saying “I’m on my way” when it wasn’t true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn’t… Internet Archive Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds 2009 · Talk · 6 min In this brief talk from TED U 2009, Jonathan Drori encourages us to save biodiversity -- one seed at a time. Reminding us that plants support human life, he… Internet Archive Joseph Nye on global power shifts 2010 · Talk · 18 min Historian and diplomat Joseph Nye gives us the 30,000-foot view of the shifts in power between China and the US, and the global implications as economic,… Internet Archive Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption 2013 · Talk · 18 min Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil. But in 1982, a shocking fact was revealed -- that 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for… Internet Archive Bill Gross on new energy 2009 · Talk · 19 min Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here… Internet Archive Emily Oster flips our thinking on AIDS in Africa 2007 · Talk · 15 min Emily Oster re-examines the stats on AIDS in Africa from an economic perspective and reaches a stunning conclusion: Everything we know about the spread of HIV… Internet Archive Giulia Enders: The surprisingly charming science of your gut 2017 · Talk Ever wonder how we poop? Learn about the gut — the system where digestion (and a whole lot more) happens — as doctor and author Giulia Enders takes us inside… Internet Archive Kristen Ashburn's photos of AIDS 2008 · Talk · 4 min In this moving talk, documentary photographer Kristen Ashburn shares unforgettable images of the human impact of AIDS in Africa. Internet Archive Rives remixes TED2006 2007 · Talk · 4 min Rives recaps the most memorable moments of TED2006 in the free-spirited rhyming verse of a fantastical mockingbird lullaby. Internet Archive Scott McCloud on comics 2009 · Talk · 17 min In this unmissable look at the magic of comics, Scott McCloud bends the presentation format into a cartoon-like experience, where colorful diversions whiz… Internet Archive Soraya Chemaly: The power of women's anger 2018 · Talk Anger is a powerful emotion — it warns us of threat, insult, indignity and harm. But across the world, girls and women are taught that their anger is better… Internet Archive Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space 2009 · Talk · 14 min At his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out of buildings -- pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more awesome. He… Internet Archive Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world 2011 · Talk · 17 min As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic… Internet Archive David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer 2010 · Talk · 23 min Too often, says David Agus cancer treatments have a short-sighted focus on individual cells. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical… Internet Archive Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention 2010 · Talk · 19 min Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that… Internet Archive Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone 2010 · Talk · 4 min At TEDxBerlin, Fabian Hemmert demos one future of the mobile phone -- a shape-shifting and weight-shifting handset that "displays" information nonvisually,… Internet Archive Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance 2014 · Talk · 19 min Hugh Herr is building the next generation of bionic limbs, robotic prosthetics inspired by nature's own designs. Herr lost both legs in a climbing accident 30…