TED Talks

1,393–1,440 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 Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views 2015 · Talk · 15 min In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanitys strange relationship with public executions … and specifically… Internet Archive Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul" 2014 · Talk · 17 min What kind of robots does an animator / jazz musician / roboticist make? Playful, reactive, curious ones. Guy Hoffman shows demo film of his family of unusual… Internet Archive Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis 2014 · Talk · 5 min 3D animation can bring scientific hypotheses to life. Molecular biologist (and TED Fellow) Janet Iwasa introduces a new open-source animation software… Internet Archive Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new 2011 · Talk · 5 min Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on… Internet Archive Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies 2015 · Talk · 20 min How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make… Internet Archive Marc Kushner: Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you 2015 · Talk · 18 min "Architecture is not about math or zoning — it's about visceral emotions," says Marc Kushner. In a sweeping — often funny — talk, he zooms through the past… Internet Archive Safwat Saleem: Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent 2016 · Talk · 10 min Artist Safwat Saleem grew up with a stutter — but as an independent animator, he decided to do his own voiceovers to give life to his characters. When YouTube… Internet Archive Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer’s is not normal aging — and we can cure it 2015 · Talk · 7 min More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to increase drastically in the coming years. But no real… Internet Archive Nancy Etcoff on the surprising science of happiness 2009 · Talk · 14 min Cognitive researcher Nancy Etcoff looks at happiness -- the ways we try to achieve and increase it, the way it's untethered to our real circumstances, and its… Internet Archive Travis Kalanick: Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars 2016 · Talk · 19 min Uber didn't start out with grand ambitions to cut congestion and pollution. But as the company took off, co-founder Travis Kalanick wondered if there was a… Internet Archive David Bolinsky animates a cell 2007 · Talk · 9 min Medical animator David Bolinsky presents 3 minutes of stunning animation that show the bustling life inside a cell. Internet Archive Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City 2009 · Talk · 16 min 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers,… Internet Archive Gastón Acurio: Can home cooking change the world? 2018 · Talk When Gastón Acurio started his now world-famous restaurant Astrid & Gastón in the 1990s, no one suspected that he would elevate the Peruvian home-cooking he… Internet Archive Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee 2011 · Talk · 5 min Imagine it's late 1990, and you've just met a nice young man named Tim Berners-Lee, who starts telling you about his proposed system called the World Wide… Internet Archive Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground 2013 · Talk · 20 min If an asteroid were headed for Earth, we'd all band together and figure out how to stop it, just like in the movies, right? And yet, when faced with major,… Internet Archive Jose Miguel Sokoloff: How Christmas lights helped guerrillas put down their guns 2014 · Talk · 14 min Colombia is a country of exceptional beauty and promise, and it’s also a country where the F.A.R.C. guerrilla movement has incited violence for 50 years. “In… Internet Archive Reed Hastings: How Netflix changed entertainment -- and where it's headed 2018 · Talk Netflix changed the world of entertainment — first with DVD-by-mail, then with streaming media and then again with sensational original shows like "Orange Is… Internet Archive Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again 2015 · Talk · 12 min Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, says scientist Andy Yen in this thought-provoking talk: Anyone can read it. Yet encryption, the… Internet Archive Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? 2015 · Talk · 4 min Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian activist with an unusual approach to peace-keeping: Be a tourist. The TED Fellow shows how simple interactions with people in… Internet Archive Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am! 2011 · Talk · 14 min After he ended up on a watch list by accident, Hasan Elahi was advised by his local FBI agents to let them know when he was traveling. He did that and more… Internet Archive Mike Kinney: A pro wrestler's guide to confidence 2017 · Talk You are more than you think you are, says former pro wrestler Mike Kinney — you just have to find what makes you unique and use it to your advantage. For… Internet Archive Deborah Scranton on her "War Tapes" 2007 · Talk · 17 min Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq. Internet Archive Diane Benscoter on how cults rewire the brain 2009 · Talk · 6 min Diane Benscoter spent five years as a "Moonie." She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about… Internet Archive Ingrid Betancourt: What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith 2017 · Talk In 2002, the Colombian guerrilla movement known as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt in the middle of her… Internet Archive Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people? 2017 · Talk If you think democracy is broken, here's an idea: let's replace politicians with randomly selected people. Author and activist Brett Hennig presents a… Internet Archive Dambisa Moyo: Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it 2016 · Talk · 14 min Economic growth is the defining challenge of our time; without it, political and social instability rises, human progress stagnates and societies grow dimmer.… Internet Archive Eldra Jackson: How to break the cycle of toxic masculinity 2018 · Talk In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads… Internet Archive Gero Miesenboeck reengineers a brain 2010 · Talk · 17 min In the quest to map the brain, many scientists have attempted the incredibly daunting task of recording the activity of each neuron. Gero Miesenboeck works… Internet Archive Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia 2006 · Talk · 20 min Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing,… Internet Archive Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat 2008 · Talk · 20 min In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too… Internet Archive Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? 2015 · Talk · 16 min Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being.… Internet Archive Peter van Manen: How can Formula 1 racing help ... babies? 2013 · Talk · 7 min During a Formula 1 race, a car sends hundreds of millions of data points to its garage for real-time analysis and feedback. So why not use this detailed and… Internet Archive Robin Morgan: 4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older 2015 · Talk · 11 min When poet Robin Morgan found herself facing Parkinson’s disease, she distilled her experiences into these four quietly powerful poems — meditating on age,… Internet Archive Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand 2011 · Talk · 13 min What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived… Internet Archive Timothy Bartik: The economic case for preschool 2013 · Talk · 15 min In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education -- and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even… Internet Archive Carla Harris: How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work 2018 · Talk The workplace is often presented as a meritocracy, where you can succeed by putting your head down and working hard. Wall Street veteran Carla Harris learned… Internet Archive Gene Luen Yang: Comics belong in the classroom 2016 · Talk Comic books and graphic novels belong in every teacher's toolkit, says cartoonist and educator Gene Luen Yang. Set against the backdrop of his own witty,… Internet Archive Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life 2016 · Talk · 6 min As different as we humans are from one another, we all age along the same great sequence, and the shared patterns of our lives pass into the pages of the… Internet Archive Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe 2015 · Talk · 5 min 60% of people with dementia wander off, an issue that can prove hugely stressful for both patients and caregivers. In this charming talk, hear how teen… Internet Archive Martin Reeves: How to build a business that lasts 100 years 2016 · Talk · 14 min If you want to build a business that lasts, there may be no better place to look for inspiration than your own immune system. Join strategist Martin Reeves as… Internet Archive Matthew White gives the euphonium a new voice 2009 · Talk · 2 min The euphonium, with its sweet brass sound, is rarely heard outside of traditional brass bands. Cutting loose on the euph, prodigy Matthew White performs Nat… Internet Archive Penelope Boston says there might be life on Mars 2008 · Talk · 18 min So the Mars Rovers didn't scoop up any alien lifeforms. Scientist Penelope Boston thinks there's a good chance -- a 25 to 50 percent chance, in fact -- that… Internet Archive Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City 2014 · Talk · 6 min Dan Barasch and James Ramsey have a crazy plan — to create a park, filled with greenery, underneath New York City. The two are developing the Lowline, an… Internet Archive Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat 2011 · Talk · 12 min Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks bluntly about politics and diplomacy, making the case that women's issues deserve a place at the center… Internet Archive Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide 2015 · Talk · 16 min What is altruism? Put simply, it's the wish that other people may be happy. And, says Matthieu Ricard, a happiness researcher and a Buddhist monk, altruism is… Internet Archive TED staff: It's TED, the Musical 2014 · Talk · 4 min Do you have a TED Talk inside, just bursting to come out? Take this tongue-in-cheek musical journey to “Give Your Talk.” A musical love letter to our speakers… Internet Archive Amishi Jha: How to tame your wandering mind 2017 · Talk Amishi Jha studies how we pay attention: the process by which our brain decides what's important out of the constant stream of information it receives. Both… Internet Archive Ann Cooper talks school lunches 2008 · Talk · 19 min Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, "renegade lunch lady" Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school -- local, sustainable,…