TED Talks

1,345–1,392 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 Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust 2013 · Talk · 9 min Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world … but, says philosopher Onora O’Neill, we… Internet Archive Stephen Webb: Where are all the aliens? 2018 · Talk The universe is incredibly old, astoundingly vast and populated by trillions of planets — so where are all the aliens? Astronomer Stephen Webb has an… Internet Archive Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff 2012 · Talk · 19 min It's the end of 2012, and the US political system is tied in knots over next year's "fiscal cliff" -- a budget impasse that can only be solved with bipartisan… Internet Archive Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries 2011 · Talk · 10 min Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programs viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes… Internet Archive Ashraf Ghani on rebuilding broken states 2006 · Talk · 18 min Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is… Internet Archive Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering 2014 · Talk · 20 min When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the… Internet Archive C.K. Williams' poetry of youth and age 2009 · Talk · 23 min Poet C.K. Williams reads his work at TED2001. As he colors scenes of childhood resentments, college loves, odd neighbors and the literal death of youth, he… Internet Archive David Rothkopf: How fear drives American politics 2015 · Talk · 18 min Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats… Internet Archive Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing 2007 · Talk · 20 min Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back… Internet Archive Margaret Heffernan: Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work 2015 · Talk · 15 min Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what… Internet Archive Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate 2010 · Talk · 19 min Democracy thrives on civil debate, Michael Sandel says -- but we're shamefully out of practice. He leads a fun refresher, with TEDsters sparring over a recent… Internet Archive Alex Kipman: The dawn of the age of holograms 2016 · Talk · 19 min Alex Kipman wants to create a new reality — one that puts people, not devices, at the center of everything. With HoloLens, the first fully untethered… Internet Archive Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime 2014 · Talk · 12 min When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who… Internet Archive Jacqueline Novogratz on escaping poverty 2009 · Talk · 7 min Jacqueline Novogratz tells a moving story of an encounter in a Nairobi slum with Jane, a former prostitute, whose dreams of escaping poverty, of becoming a… Internet Archive Rhiannon Giddens: 3 songs that bring history to life 2016 · Talk · 14 min Rhiannon Giddens pours the emotional weight of American history into her music. Listen as she performs two traditional folk ballads, "Waterboy" and "Up Above… Internet Archive Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace. 2014 · Talk · 9 min If you’re raised on dogma and hate, can you choose a different path? Zak Ebrahim was just seven years old when his father helped plan the 1993 World Trade… Internet Archive Charles Fleischer insists: All things are Moleeds 2010 · Talk · 18 min In a presentation that can only be described as epic, comedian Charles Fleischer delivers a hysterical send-up of a time-honored TED theme: the map. Geometry,… Internet Archive Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies? 2013 · Talk · 16 min The developed world holds up the ideals of capitalism, democracy and political rights for all. Those in emerging markets often don't have that luxury. In this… Internet Archive Hans Rosling's new insights on poverty 2007 · Talk · 19 min Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of… Internet Archive Jake Barton: The museum of you 2013 · Talk · 15 min A third of the world watched live as the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001; a third more heard about it within 24 hours. (Do you remember… Internet Archive Seema Bansal: How to fix a broken education system ... without any more money 2016 · Talk · 14 min Seema Bansal forged a path to public education reform for 15,000 schools in Haryana, India, by setting an ambitious goal: by 2020, 80 percent of children… Internet Archive Adam Savage: My love letter to cosplay 2016 · Talk · 13 min Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of… Internet Archive Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics 2014 · Talk · 4 min On March 17, 2014, a group of physicists announced a thrilling discovery: the “smoking gun” data for the idea of an inflationary universe, a clue to the Big… Internet Archive Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation 2010 · Talk · 18 min TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning… Internet Archive Helder Guimarães: A magical search for a coincidence 2015 · Talk · 13 min Small coincidences. They happen all the time and yet, they pass us by because we are not looking for them. In a delightfully subtle trick, magician Helder… Internet Archive Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere 2009 · Talk · 6 min JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the… Internet Archive John Hodgman: Design, explained. 2012 · Talk · 6 min John Hodgman, comedian and resident expert, "explains" the design of three iconic modern objects. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by… Internet Archive Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami 2014 · Talk · 9 min Perhaps you’ve punched out a paper doll or folded an origami swan? TED Fellow Manu Prakash and his team have created a microscope made of paper that's just as… Internet Archive Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business 2018 · Talk As the popularity of remote working continues to spread, workers today can collaborate across cities, countries and even multiple time zones. How does this… Internet Archive Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status 2016 · Talk · 15 min Americanization and globalization have basically been the same thing for the last several generations. But the US's view of the world — and the world's view… Internet Archive Kirk Citron: And now, the real news 2010 · Talk · 3 min How many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's "Long News" project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate… Internet Archive Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers 2013 · Talk · 12 min Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's… Internet Archive Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love 2015 · Talk · 17 min Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he… Internet Archive Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now! 2013 · Talk · 16 min Why do we ever stop playing and creating? With charm and humor, celebrated Korean author Young-ha Kim invokes the world's greatest artists to urge you to… Internet Archive Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process 2014 · Talk · 15 min When asked to build housing for 100 families in Chile ten years ago, Alejandro Aravena looked to an unusual inspiration: the wisdom of favelas and slums.… Internet Archive Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling 2011 · Talk · 3 min iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new… Internet Archive Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes 2013 · Talk · 17 min In 1985, architect Paul Pholeros was challenged by the director of an Aboriginal-controlled health service to "stop people getting sick" in a small indigenous… Internet Archive Rana el Kaliouby: This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face 2015 · Talk · 11 min Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives — how we learn, how we communicate, how we make decisions. Yet they’re absent from our digital lives; the… Internet Archive Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash 2013 · Talk · 7 min New York City residents produce 11,000 tons of garbage every day. Every day! This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a… Internet Archive Adam Garone: Healthier men, one moustache at a time 2012 · Talk · 16 min Adam Garone has an impressive moustache, and it's for a good cause. A co-founder of Movember, Garone's initiative to raise awareness for men's health -- by… Internet Archive Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media 2009 · Talk · 4 min In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy… Internet Archive Allan Adams: What the discovery of gravitational waves means 2016 · Talk · 11 min More than a billion years ago, two black holes in a distant galaxy locked into a spiral, falling inexorably toward each other, and collided. "All that energy… Internet Archive Del Harvey: The strangeness of scale at Twitter 2014 · Talk · 9 min When hundreds of thousands of Tweets are fired every second, a one-in-a-million chance -- including unlikely sounding sounding scenarios that could harm users… Internet Archive Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue 2011 · Talk · 11 min A personal story, a collective triumph: Dyan deNapoli tells the story of the world's largest volunteer animal rescue, which saved more than 40,000 penguins… Internet Archive Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting 2016 · Talk · 14 min By loading kids with high expectations and micromanaging their lives at every turn, parents aren't actually helping. At least, that's how Julie Lythcott-Haims… Internet Archive Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better 2013 · Talk · 18 min There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become… Internet Archive Sangu Delle: There's no shame in taking care of your mental health 2017 · Talk · 9 min When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In… Internet Archive Aaswath Raman: How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource 2018 · Talk What if we could use the cold darkness of outer space to cool buildings on earth? In this mind-blowing talk, physicist Aaswath Raman details the technology…