TED Talks

1,585–1,632 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 Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer 2009 · Talk · 14 min Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he… Internet Archive Karen J. Meech: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system 2018 · Talk In October 2017, astrobiologist Karen J. Meech got the call every astronomer waits for: NASA had spotted the very first visitor from another star system. The… Internet Archive Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper 2013 · Talk · 11 min "I love paper, and I love technology," says physicist and former sheep herder Kate Stone, who's spent the past decade working to unite the two. Her… Internet Archive Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work 2014 · Talk · 18 min More than 8 million people are crowded together to live in New York City. What makes it possible? In part, it’s the city’s great public spaces — from tiny… Internet Archive Amy Tan on creativity 2008 · Talk · 22 min Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved. Internet Archive Anote Tong: My country will be underwater soon -- unless we work together 2015 · Talk · 21 min For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated, denied or legislated against — it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific… Internet Archive Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: What veterinarians know that doctors don't 2014 · Talk · 15 min What do you call a veterinarian that can only take care of one species? A physician. In a fascinating talk, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz shares how a… Internet Archive Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library 2008 · Talk · 20 min Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all… Internet Archive Erin Marie Saltman: How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them 2016 · Talk Terrorists and extremists aren't all naturally violent sociopaths — they're deliberately recruited and radicalized in a process that doesn't fit into a neat… Internet Archive Jamie Drummond: How to set goals ... for the world 2012 · Talk · 12 min In 2000, the UN laid out 8 goals to make the world better by reducing poverty and disease -- with a deadline of 2015. As that deadline approaches, Jamie… Internet Archive Karen Armstrong makes her TED Prize wish: the Charter for Compassion 2008 · Talk · 21 min People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a… Internet Archive Lakshmi Pratury on letter-writing 2007 · Talk · 4 min Lakshmi Pratury remembers the lost art of letter-writing and shares a series of notes her father wrote to her before he died. Her short but heartfelt talk may… Internet Archive Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz 2011 · Talk · 6 min Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates "beatjazz" -- his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the… Internet Archive Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering 2010 · Talk · 8 min "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are… Internet Archive Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria 2013 · Talk · 15 min We’ve known how to cure malaria since the 1600s, so why does the disease still kill hundreds of thousands every year? It’s more than just a problem of… Internet Archive Stephanie Busari: How fake news does real harm 2017 · Talk · 6 min On April 14, 2014, the terrorist organization Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, Nigeria. Around the world, the crime… Internet Archive Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win 2015 · Talk · 16 min Today the speed at which we spread information is so fast that a single email can launch a worldwide awareness campaign, as with the Occupy movement. Yet as… Internet Archive Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers 2011 · Talk · 9 min Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's… Internet Archive Rainer Strack: The surprising workforce crisis of 2030 -- and how to start solving it now 2014 · Talk · 12 min It sounds counterintuitive, but by 2030, many of the world's largest economies will have more jobs than adult citizens to do those jobs. In this data-filled —… Internet Archive Rory Bremner's one-man world summit 2009 · Talk · 14 min Scottish funnyman Rory Bremner convenes a historic council on the TEDGlobal stage -- as he lampoons Gordon Brown, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and a cast of… Internet Archive David Sengeh: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs 2014 · Talk · 4 min What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after… Internet Archive George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos 2007 · Talk · 17 min Ghanaian economist George Ayittey unleashes a torrent of controlled anger toward corrupt leaders in Africa -- and calls on the “Cheetah generation” to take… Internet Archive Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future 2009 · Talk · 15 min Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its… Internet Archive Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution 2014 · Talk · 6 min “Men fight wars, and women mourn them,” says documentary photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind. With stark, arresting images from the Maidan protests in Ukraine,… Internet Archive Cameron Sinclair on open-source architecture 2006 · Talk · 23 min Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED… Internet Archive Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums 2010 · Talk · 18 min Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids… Internet Archive Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine 2015 · Talk · 10 min Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind… Internet Archive Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world 2010 · Talk · 17 min Some 80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores this glowing,… Internet Archive George Smoot on the design of the universe 2008 · Talk · 18 min At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant… Internet Archive J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview 2018 · Talk What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the… Internet Archive Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question) 2014 · Talk · 14 min Plenty of good things are done in the name of religion, and plenty of bad things too. But what is religion, exactly — is it good or bad, in and of itself?… Internet Archive Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities" 2007 · Talk · 14 min Robert Neuwirth, author of "Shadow Cities," finds the world’s squatter sites -- where a billion people now make their homes -- to be thriving centers of… Internet Archive Rocío Lorenzo: Want a more innovative company? Hire more women 2017 · Talk Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out — and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that… Internet Archive Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff 2010 · Talk · 12 min It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers.… Internet Archive Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive 2014 · Talk · 18 min You've heard about slow food. Now here's slow ... TV? In this funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to… Internet Archive Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don’t know yet) 2014 · Talk · 15 min In this factual talk, geneticist Wendy Chung shares what we know about autism spectrum disorder — for example, that autism has multiple, perhaps interlocking,… Internet Archive Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others 2016 · Talk · 12 min Why do some people do selfless things, helping other people even at risk to their own well-being? Psychology researcher Abigail Marsh studies the motivations… Internet Archive Corneille Ewango is a hero of the Congo forest 2008 · Talk · 18 min Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin -- and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and… Internet Archive Danit Peleg: Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes 2015 · Talk · 6 min Downloadable, printable clothing may be coming to a closet near you. What started as designer Danit Peleg's fashion school project turned into a collection of… Internet Archive Devita Davison: How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit 2017 · Talk There's something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food. In a spirited talk, fearless farmer Devita Davison… Internet Archive Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen 2006 · Talk · 8 min Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. Internet Archive Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason 2014 · Talk · 15 min Here's a TED first: an animated Socratic dialog! In a time when irrationality seems to rule both politics and culture, has reasoned thinking finally lost its… Internet Archive Theo Jansen creates new creatures 2007 · Talk · 8 min Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to… Internet Archive eL Seed: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings 2016 · Talk · 11 min eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED… Internet Archive Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future 2009 · Talk · 19 min Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ...… Internet Archive Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR 2016 · Talk · 9 min Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR… Internet Archive Fei-Fei Li: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures 2015 · Talk · 18 min When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too.… Internet Archive Nalini Nadkarni on conserving the canopy 2009 · Talk · 16 min A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds -- and shares her…