TED Talks

2,257–2,304 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 Dan Barber's foie gras parable 2008 · Talk · 20 min At the Taste3 conference, chef Dan Barber tells the story of a small farm in Spain that has found a humane way to produce foie gras. Raising his geese in a… Internet Archive Dan Knights: How we study the microbes living in your gut 2017 · Talk There are about a hundred trillion microbes living inside your gut — protecting you from infection, aiding digestion and regulating your immune system. As our… Internet Archive Katie Hinde: What we don't know about mother's milk 2017 · Talk · 9 min Breast milk grows babies' bodies, fuels neurodevelopment, provides essential immunofactors and safeguards against famine and disease — why, then, does science… Internet Archive Marco Alverà: The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better 2017 · Talk What is it about unfairness? Whether it's not being invited to a friend's wedding or getting penalized for bad luck or an honest mistake, unfairness often… Internet Archive Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis 2013 · Talk · 13 min Biologist Mohamed Hijri brings to light a farming crisis no one is talking about: We are running out of phosphorus, an essential element that's a key… Internet Archive Fredy Peccerelli: A forensic anthropologist who brings closure for the “disappeared" 2015 · Talk · 8 min In Guatemala’s 36-year conflict, 200,000 civilians were killed — and more than 40,000 were never identified. Pioneering forensic anthropologist Fredy… Internet Archive Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked 2013 · Talk · 14 min A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new… Internet Archive Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media 2018 · Talk History is written by the victors, as the saying goes — but what would it look like if it was written by everyone? Journalist and TED Fellow Mikhail Zygar is… Internet Archive Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead 2015 · Talk · 14 min The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and… Internet Archive Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know 2016 · Talk · 10 min Almost 30 years ago, Pico Iyer took a trip to Japan, fell in love with the country and moved there. A keen observer of the human spirit, Iyer professes that… Internet Archive Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry 2013 · Talk · 11 min Almost everything we own and use, at some point, travels to us by container ship, through a vast network of ocean routes and ports that most of us know almost… Internet Archive Shimon Schocken's rides of hope 2010 · Talk · 15 min Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with… Internet Archive The Raspyni Brothers juggle and jest 2008 · Talk · 15 min Illustrious jugglers the Raspyni Brothers show off their uncanny balance, agility, coordination and willingness to sacrifice (others). Now, if you'll just… Internet Archive Ameera Harouda: Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza 2016 · Talk · 8 min When Ameera Harouda hears the sounds of bombs or shells, she heads straight towards them. "I want to be there first because these stories should be told,"… Internet Archive David Cage: How video games turn players into storytellers 2018 · Talk Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you… Internet Archive Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries 2013 · Talk · 8 min Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier caves that they… Internet Archive Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? 2013 · Talk · 7 min What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal… Internet Archive Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp 2010 · Talk · 18 min Mark Roth studies suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again. It's wild stuff, but it's not science fiction.… Internet Archive Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more? 2015 · Talk · 17 min Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've… Internet Archive McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys 2014 · Talk · 5 min McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven -- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an… Internet Archive Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world? 2014 · Talk · 17 min It's an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out too much money—now have consequences… Internet Archive Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo 2012 · Talk · 6 min TED Fellow Abigail Washburn wanted to be a lawyer improving US-China relations -- until she picked up a banjo. She tells a moving story of the remarkable… Internet Archive Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people 2013 · Talk · 13 min Designer Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission… Internet Archive Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology 2017 · Talk · 7 min What if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie? What if you had a lipstick that caused plants to grow where you kiss? Ani Liu explores the intersection of… Internet Archive Dylan Marron: How I turn negative online comments into positive offline conversations 2018 · Talk Digital creator Dylan Marron has racked up millions of views for projects like "Every Single Word" and "Sitting in Bathrooms With Trans People" — but he's… Internet Archive Joseph Redmon: How computers learn to recognize objects instantly 2017 · Talk Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible. Today, computer vision… Internet Archive Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief 2015 · Talk · 13 min For the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick — pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser… Internet Archive Nate Silver: Does race affect votes? 2009 · Talk · 9 min Nate Silver has answers to controversial questions about race in politics: Did Obama's race hurt his votes in some places? Stats and myths collide in this… Internet Archive Nick Sears demos the Orb 2008 · Talk · 3 min Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool tale of… Internet Archive Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying 2012 · Talk · 13 min We can’t control if we’ll die, but we can “occupy death,” in the words of Dr. Peter Saul. He calls on us to make clear our preferences for end of life care --… Internet Archive Robert Thurman: We can be Buddhas 2007 · Talk · 12 min In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature. Internet Archive Shameem Akhtar: To learn is to be free 2017 · Talk Shameem Akhtar posed as a boy during her early childhood in Pakistan so she could enjoy the privileges Pakistani girls are rarely afforded: to play outside… Internet Archive Toby Eccles: Invest in social change 2013 · Talk · 10 min Here's a stat worth knowing: In the UK, 63% of men who finish short-term prison sentences are back inside within a year for another crime. Helping them stay… Internet Archive Boniface Mwangi: The day I stood up alone 2015 · Talk · 7 min Photographer Boniface Mwangi wanted to protest against corruption in his home country of Kenya. So he made a plan: He and some friends would stand up and… Internet Archive David Bismark: E-voting without fraud 2010 · Talk · 8 min David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret. Internet Archive Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons 2017 · Talk · 14 min Today nine nations collectively control more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, each hundreds of times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.… Internet Archive Gary Slutkin: Let's treat violence like a contagious disease 2013 · Talk · 14 min Physician Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS epidemics in Africa. When he returned to the United States, he thought he'd… Internet Archive Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash 2010 · Talk · 9 min Halla Tomasdottir managed to take her company Audur Capital through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland by applying 5 traditionally "feminine" values to… Internet Archive Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken. How we can fix them 2015 · Talk · 17 min When a family falls into crisis — and it sometimes happens, thanks to unemployment, drugs, bad relationships and bad luck — the social services system is… Internet Archive Leo Igwe: Why I choose humanism over faith 2017 · Talk As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention — but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease,… Internet Archive Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd? 2014 · Talk · 17 min Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to… Internet Archive Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa 2017 · Talk "My science fiction has different ancestors — African ones," says writer Nnedi Okorafor. In between excerpts from her "Binti" series and her novel "Lagoon,"… Internet Archive Nora York sings "What I Want" 2007 · Talk · 4 min Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass). Internet Archive Rodin Lyasoff: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel 2018 · Talk Flight is about to get a lot more personal, says aviation entrepreneur Rodin Lyasoff. In this visionary talk, he imagines a new golden age of air travel in… Internet Archive Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives 2017 · Talk How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing… Internet Archive Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community 2013 · Talk · 7 min When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he… Internet Archive Euna Lee: What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea 2016 · Talk In March 2009, North Korean soldiers captured journalist Euna Lee and her colleague Laura Ling while they were shooting a documentary on the border with… Internet Archive Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data 2017 · Talk · 11 min Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing…