TED Talks

1,249–1,296 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 Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater 2014 · Talk · 10 min In 1963, Jacques Cousteau lived for 30 days in an underwater laboratory positioned on the floor of the Red Sea, and set a world record in the process. This… Internet Archive Harry Cliff: Have we reached the end of physics? 2016 · Talk · 14 min Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does so much interesting stuff exist in the universe? Particle physicist Harry Cliff works on the Large Hadron… Internet Archive Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state 2014 · Talk · 19 min Tour the deep dark world of the East German state security agency known as Stasi. Uniquely powerful at spying on its citizens, until the fall of the Berlin… Internet Archive Juan Enriquez: What will humans look like in 100 years? 2016 · Talk · 15 min We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals — futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from… Internet Archive Kitra Cahana: Stories of the homeless and hidden 2014 · Talk · 5 min As a young girl, photojournalist Kitra Cahana dreamed about running away from home to live freely on the road. Now as an adult and self-proclaimed vagabond,… Internet Archive Maya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist … 2014 · Talk · 7 min Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the planet. She… Internet Archive Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth 2016 · Talk · 7 min Zaria Forman's large-scale compositions of melting glaciers, icebergs floating in glassy water and waves cresting with foam explore moments of transition,… Internet Archive Carl Honore praises slowness 2007 · Talk · 19 min Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as… Internet Archive Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google 2011 · Talk · 14 min Google's "Jolly Good Fellow," Chade-Meng Tan, talks about how the company practices compassion in its everyday business -- and its bold side projects. Internet Archive John Hockenberry: We are all designers 2012 · Talk · 19 min Journalist John Hockenberry tells a personal story inspired by a pair of flashy wheels in a wheelchair-parts catalogue -- and how they showed him the value of… Internet Archive Pamela Ronald: The case for engineering our food 2015 · Talk · 17 min Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she describes her decade-long quest to help… Internet Archive Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck 2018 · Talk Luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic — it's much more like the wind, blowing constantly. Catching more of it is easy but not obvious. In… Internet Archive David Pogue on cool phone tricks 2009 · Talk · 26 min In this engaging talk from the EG'08 conference, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that can boost… Internet Archive Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders 2018 · Talk Companies are counting on their future leaders to manage with more speed, flexibility and trust than ever before. But how can middle managers climb the… Internet Archive Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do 2007 · Talk · 9 min At TED U, Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do -- and why a little danger is good for both… Internet Archive John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal 2011 · Talk · 11 min Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That's science writer John Bohannon's "modest proposal." In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes… Internet Archive Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows 2008 · Talk · 10 min Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid… Internet Archive Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 2010 · Talk · 23 min Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an… Internet Archive Anil Seth: How your brain hallucinates your conscious reality 2017 · Talk Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience… Internet Archive The interspecies internet? An idea in progress… 2013 · Talk · 20 min Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and… Internet Archive Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web 2009 · Talk · 16 min 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the… Internet Archive Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace 2010 · Talk · 17 min In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful "backline" stories of women who keep… Internet Archive Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: Humble plants that hide surprising secrets 2014 · Talk · 14 min In this intriguing talk, biologist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim introduces us to rare plant species from isolated islands and regions of Africa. Meet the… Internet Archive Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor) 2011 · Talk · 7 min Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art… Internet Archive Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure 2010 · Talk · 17 min For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what… Internet Archive Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth 2007 · Talk · 7 min Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the… Internet Archive Bono: action for Africa 2006 · Talk · 27 min Musician and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TED Prize with a riveting talk, arguing that aid to Africa isn't just another celebrity cause; it's a global… Internet Archive Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing 2010 · Talk · 7 min Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's… Internet Archive James Randi's fiery takedown of psychic fraud 2010 · Talk · 17 min Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He… Internet Archive Marco Annunziata: Welcome to the age of the industrial internet 2013 · Talk · 12 min Everyone's talking about the "Internet of Things," but what exactly does that mean for our future? In this thoughtful talk, economist Marco Annunziata looks… Internet Archive Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens 2016 · Talk · 10 min Teens don't get enough sleep, and it's not because of Snapchat, social lives or hormones — it's because of public policy, says Wendy Troxel. Drawing from her… Internet Archive Jason B. Rosenthal: The journey through loss and grief 2018 · Talk In her brutally honest, ironically funny and widely read meditation on death, "You May Want to Marry My Husband," the late author and filmmaker Amy Krouse… Internet Archive David Lang: My underwater robot 2013 · Talk · 4 min David Lang is a maker who taught himself to become an amateur oceanographer -- or, he taught a robot to be one for him. In a charming talk Lang, a TED Fellow,… Internet Archive JR: One year of turning the world inside out 2012 · Talk · 6 min Street artist JR made a wish in 2011: Join me in a worldwide photo project to show the world its true face. Now, a year after his TED Prize wish, he shows how… Internet Archive Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table 2012 · Talk · 6 min Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you… Internet Archive Kartick Satyanarayan: How we rescued the "dancing" bears 2010 · Talk · 4 min Traditionally, the Kalandar community of India has survived by capturing sloth bear cubs and training them to "dance" through extreme cruelty. Kartick… Internet Archive Meron Gribetz: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset 2016 · Talk · 10 min What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world? With the Meta 2, an augmented reality… Internet Archive Robert Wright on optimism 2007 · Talk · 19 min Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and how we… Internet Archive Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are 2014 · Talk · 20 min Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while… Internet Archive Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope 2016 · Talk Artist Eric Dyer spent years working at a computer to produce images for the screen. Longing to get his hands back on his work, he began exploring the… Internet Archive Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages 2012 · Talk · 10 min Orphanages are costly and can cause irreparable damage both mentally and physically for its charges -- so why are they still so ubiquitous? Georgette Mulheir… Internet Archive Guillaume Néry: The exhilarating peace of freediving 2015 · Talk · 19 min In this breathtaking talk, world champion freediver Guillaume Néry takes us with him into the ocean's depths. Meter by meter, he explains the physical and… Internet Archive Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime 2014 · Talk · 12 min Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives… Internet Archive Lisa Nip: How humans could evolve to survive in space 2016 · Talk · 12 min If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using… Internet Archive Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy 2018 · Talk Truth comes from the collision of different ideas, and theater plays an essential role in showing us that truth, says legendary artistic director Oskar… Internet Archive Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money 2018 · Talk We all want to save more money — but overall, people today are doing less and less of it. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa studies how everyday people… Internet Archive Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads 2017 · Talk We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufecki. In an eye-opening talk, she details… Internet Archive David Perry: Are games better than life? 2008 · Talk · 21 min Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional…