TED Talks

1,633–1,680 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 Neha Narula: The future of money 2016 · Talk · 16 min What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical… Internet Archive Johan Rockström: 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world 2018 · Talk In a talk about how we can build a robust future without wrecking the planet, sustainability expert Johan Rockström debuts the Earth3 model — a new… Internet Archive Juan Enriquez: We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely 2016 · Talk · 14 min For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed… Internet Archive Marc Pachter: The art of the interview 2009 · Interview · 20 min Marc Pachter has conducted live interviews with some of the most intriguing characters in recent American history as part of a remarkable series created for… Internet Archive Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA 2017 · Talk · 16 min Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in response to social factors like stress and lack… Internet Archive Natsai Audrey Chieza: Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it? 2017 · Talk Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission — to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she… Internet Archive Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge 2010 · Talk · 18 min MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't.… Internet Archive Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home 2016 · Talk · 9 min What if doctors could monitor patients at home with the same degree of accuracy they'd get during a stay at the hospital? Bioelectronics innovator Todd… Internet Archive Ash Beckham: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up 2014 · Talk · 9 min In this touching talk, Ash Beckham offers a fresh approach to empathy and openness. It starts with understanding that everyone, at some point in their life,… Internet Archive Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials 2018 · Talk What would it take to reimagine the limits of architecture? Débora Mesa Molina offers some answers in this breathtaking, visual tour of her work, showing how… Internet Archive Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory. 2013 · Talk · 15 min Can we edit the content of our memories? It’s a sci-fi-tinged question that Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu are asking in their lab at MIT. Essentially, the pair… Internet Archive Trevor Timm: How free is our freedom of the press? 2016 · Talk · 5 min In the US, the press has a right to publish secret information the public needs to know, protected by the First Amendment. Government surveillance has made it… Internet Archive Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) 2018 · Talk At MIT, Dina Katabi and her team are working on a bold new way to monitor patients' vital signs in a hospital (or even at home), without wearables or bulky,… Internet Archive Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. 2013 · Talk · 8 min Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And… Internet Archive Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution 2016 · Talk · 13 min "The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly — and… Internet Archive Natasha Tsakos' multimedia theatrical adventure 2009 · Talk · 14 min Natasha Tsakos presents part of her one-woman, multimedia show, "Upwake." As the character Zero, she blends dream and reality with an inventive virtual world… Internet Archive Niki Okuk: When workers own companies, the economy is more resilient 2016 · Talk Another economic reality is possible — one that values community, sustainability and resiliency instead of profit by any means necessary. Niki Okuk shares her… Internet Archive Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world 2013 · Talk · 9 min "Life comes at us very quickly, and what we need to do is take that amorphous flow of experience and somehow extract meaning from it." In this funny,… Internet Archive Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war 2014 · Talk · 14 min Wes Moore joined the US Army to pay for college, but the experience became core to who he is. In this heartfelt talk, the paratrooper and captain—who went on… Internet Archive AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion … we're all invited! 2014 · Talk · 9 min You may not know it yet, but AJ Jacobs is probably your cousin (many, many times removed). Using genealogy websites, he’s been following the unexpected links… Internet Archive Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties 2015 · Talk · 18 min Subtle motion happens around us all the time, including tiny vibrations caused by sound. New technology shows that we can pick up on these vibrations and… Internet Archive Janine Benyus shares nature's designs 2007 · Talk · 23 min In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the… Internet Archive Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar 2014 · Talk · 18 min The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it's "a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic," as writer Jennifer Senior puts it. Why… Internet Archive Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t 2014 · Talk · 16 min "The greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon rainforest is not the jaguar or the harpy eagle," says Mark Plotkin, "It's the isolated and… Internet Archive Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn't true 2015 · Talk · 15 min As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people… Internet Archive Murray Gell-Mann on the ancestor of language 2008 · Talk · 2 min After speaking at TED2007 on elegance in physics, the amazing Murray Gell-Mann gives a quick overview of another passionate interest: finding the common… Internet Archive Renata Salecl: Our unhealthy obsession with choice 2014 · Talk · 15 min We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher… Internet Archive Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story 2009 · Talk · 11 min Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with… Internet Archive Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality 2016 · Talk · 19 min Women's equality won't just happen — not unless more women are put in positions of power, says Sandi Toksvig. In a disarmingly hilarious talk, Toksvig tells… Internet Archive Talithia Williams: Own your body's data 2014 · Talk · 17 min The new breed of high-tech self-monitors (measuring heartrate, sleep, steps per day) might seem targeted at competitive athletes. But Talithia Williams, a… Internet Archive Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities 2011 · Talk · 10 min How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need -- while… Internet Archive Augie Picado: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing 2017 · Talk We've heard a lot of rhetoric lately suggesting that countries like the US are losing valuable manufacturing jobs to lower-cost markets like China, Mexico and… Internet Archive Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed 2015 · Talk · 6 min Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from… Internet Archive Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue 2016 · Talk · 7 min The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow… Internet Archive Dan Pallotta: The dream we haven't dared to dream 2016 · Talk · 12 min What are your dreams? Better yet, what are your broken dreams? Dan Pallotta dreams of a time when we are as excited, curious and scientific about the… Internet Archive Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business 2016 · Talk · 18 min What is the blockchain? If you don't know, you should; if you do, chances are you still need some clarification on how it actually works. Don Tapscott is here… Internet Archive Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons 2011 · Talk · 6 min Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200… Internet Archive Felix Dennis: Odes to vice and consequences 2009 · Talk · 17 min Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap --… Internet Archive Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal? 2016 · Interview · 20 min How can the US recover after the negative, partisan presidential election of 2016? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the morals that form the basis… Internet Archive Marisa Fick-Jordan shares the wonder of Zulu wire art 2008 · Talk · 2 min In this short, image-packed talk, Marisa Fick-Jordan talks about how a village of traditional Zulu wire weavers built a worldwide market for their dazzling… Internet Archive Aakash Odedra: A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light 2014 · Talk · 9 min Choreographer Aakash Odedra is dyslexic and has always felt that his best expression comes through movement. “Murmur” is his ode to that experience, teaming… Internet Archive Adam Savage's obsessions 2009 · Talk · 15 min At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining… Internet Archive Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion 2011 · Talk · 16 min Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and… Internet Archive Daniel Kraft: The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home 2018 · Talk We need to change how we prescribe drugs, says physician Daniel Kraft: too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't… Internet Archive Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil 2009 · Talk · 3 min In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then… Internet Archive Eman Mohammed: The courage to tell a hidden story 2014 · Talk · 4 min Eman Mohammed is one of the few female photojournalists in the Gaza Strip. Though openly shunned by many of her male colleagues, she is given unprecedented… Internet Archive Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science 2015 · Talk · 14 min Cave explorer and geologist Francesco Sauro travels to the hidden continent under our feet, surveying deep, dark places inside the earth that humans have… Internet Archive Gill Hicks: I survived a terrorist attack. Here's what I learned 2016 · Talk · 10 min Gill Hicks's story is one of compassion and humanity, emerging from the ashes of chaos and hate. A survivor of the London terrorist bombings on July 7, 2005,…