TED Talks

2,113–2,160 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 Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels" 2011 · Talk · 18 min Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling.… Internet Archive Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era 2016 · Talk · 16 min Summer, 2016: amid populist revolts, clashing resentments and fear, writer Anand Giridharadas doesn't give a talk but reads a letter. It's from those who have… Internet Archive Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe 2018 · Talk What's it like to discover a galaxy — and have it named after you? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil lets us know in this quick talk about her… Internet Archive Nellie McKay sings "Clonie" 2008 · Talk · 2 min Singer-songwriter Nellie McKay performs the semi-serious song "Clonie" -- about creating the ultimate companion. Internet Archive Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works 2015 · Talk · 18 min Behind the everyday bargains we all love — the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet — is a hidden world of forced labor to keep those prices at rock… Internet Archive OluTimehin Adegbeye: Who belongs in a city? 2017 · Talk Underneath every shiny new megacity, there's often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin Adegbeye details how government… Internet Archive Sally Kohn: What we can do about the culture of hate 2017 · Talk We're all against hate, right? We agree it's a problem — their problem, not our problem, that is. But as Sally Kohn discovered, we all hate — some of us in… Internet Archive Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world? 2014 · Talk · 6 min A post-apocalyptic Earth, emptied of humans, seems like the stuff of science fiction TV and movies. But in this short, surprising talk, Lord Martin Rees asks… Internet Archive Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: To solve old problems, study new species 2017 · Talk · 12 min Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious — but biological research today tends to focus on only seven species, including rats, chickens, fruit… Internet Archive Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history 2016 · Talk · 13 min Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm… Internet Archive Oded Shoseyov: How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers 2016 · Talk · 13 min What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials… Internet Archive Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing 2015 · Talk · 16 min As human beings, we get used to "the way things are" really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity ... Could things be better? How? In… Internet Archive Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection 2016 · Talk · 13 min Painter Alyssa Monks finds beauty and inspiration in the unknown, the unpredictable and even the awful. In a poetic, intimate talk, she describes the… Internet Archive Deeyah Khan: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids 2017 · Talk · 20 min As the child of an Afghan mother and Pakistani father raised in Norway, Deeyah Khan knows what it's like to be a young person stuck between your community and… Internet Archive Elizabeth White: An honest look at the personal finance crisis 2017 · Talk Millions of baby boomers are moving into their senior years with empty pockets and declining choices to earn a living. And right behind them is a younger… Internet Archive Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers 2016 · Talk · 17 min Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today… Internet Archive Raghava KK: Shake up your story 2011 · Talk · 4 min Artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes. In this charming… Internet Archive Alex Steffen sees a sustainable future 2007 · Talk · 17 min Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads… Internet Archive Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space 2015 · Talk · 7 min "We will start inhabiting outer space," says NASA crew commander Angelo Vermeulen. "It might take 50 years or it might take 500 years, but it’s going to… Internet Archive David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet -- and it's magic 2014 · Talk · 11 min David Kwong is a magician who makes crossword puzzles -- in other words, a pretty nerdy guy. And for his next trick ... Internet Archive Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip 2010 · Talk · 4 min Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the… Internet Archive Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School 2011 · Talk · 6 min Some kids learn by listening; others learn by doing. Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the Studio School, a new kind of school in the UK where small… Internet Archive Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human 2009 · Talk · 17 min In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and… Internet Archive Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods 2012 · Talk · 14 min Call it fuel without fossils: Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater… Internet Archive Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster 2015 · Talk · 9 min When disaster strikes, who's first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through… Internet Archive Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs! 2010 · Talk · 15 min At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding… Internet Archive Graham Allison: Is war between China and the US inevitable? 2018 · Talk Taking lessons from a historical pattern called "Thucydides's Trap," political scientist Graham Allison shows why a rising China and a dominant United States… Internet Archive Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes 2018 · Talk What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation… Internet Archive Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution? 2011 · Talk · 17 min Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to… Internet Archive Jehane Noujaim wishes for a global day of film 2006 · Talk · 25 min Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film. Internet Archive Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue 2018 · Talk What if we could harness the sticking powers of sea creatures like mussels, oysters and barnacles, which refuse to budge even on wet, stormy coastlines? Dive… Internet Archive Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster? 2015 · Talk · 10 min What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new… Internet Archive Nikki Webber Allen: Don't suffer from your depression in silence 2017 · Talk Having feelings isn't a sign of weakness — they mean we're human, says producer and activist Nikki Webber Allen. Even after being diagnosed with anxiety and… Internet Archive Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit 2017 · Talk · 7 min We've all dreamed of flying — but for Richard Browning, flight is an obsession. He's built an Iron Man-like suit that leans on an elegant collaboration of… Internet Archive Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself? 2014 · Talk · 15 min After a traumatic brain injury, it sometimes happens that the brain can repair itself, building new brain cells to replace damaged ones. But the repair… Internet Archive Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague 2018 · Talk Imagine your company hires a new employee and then everyone just ignores them, day in and day out, while they sit alone at their desk getting paid to do… Internet Archive Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria? 2010 · Talk · 15 min Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like… Internet Archive Paul Tudor Jones II: Why we need to rethink capitalism 2015 · Talk · 9 min Paul Tudor Jones II loves capitalism. It's a system that has done him very well over the last few decades. Nonetheless, the hedge fund manager and… Internet Archive Rob Forbes on ways of seeing 2009 · Talk · 15 min Rob Forbes, the founder of Design Within Reach, shows a gallery of snapshots that inform his way of seeing the world. Charming juxtapositions, found art,… Internet Archive Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car? 2012 · Talk · 12 min A decade ago, Robin Chase founded Zipcar in the US, now the largest car-sharing company in the world. Now she's exploring the next level of car-sharing:… Internet Archive Shereen El-Feki: HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws 2012 · Talk · 15 min There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED… Internet Archive Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible 2013 · Talk · 10 min Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history… Internet Archive Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses (still) matter 2014 · Talk · 15 min 2013 was a year of hype for MOOCs (massively open online courses). Great big numbers and great big hopes were followed by some disappointing first results.… Internet Archive Chetan Bhatt: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are 2015 · Talk We all have origin stories and identity myths, our tribal narratives that give us a sense of security and belonging. But sometimes our small-group identities… Internet Archive Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future 2014 · Talk · 17 min Ge Wang makes computer music, but it isn’t all about coded bleeps and blips. With the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, he creates new instruments out of unexpected… Internet Archive Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars? 2017 · Talk · 13 min Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cox works on the team that manages the United States'… Internet Archive Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business 2014 · Talk · 16 min Anonymous companies protect corrupt individuals – from notorious drug cartel leaders to nefarious arms dealers – behind a shroud of mystery that makes it… Internet Archive Finn Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy 2018 · Talk Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them…