TED Talks

2,545–2,592 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 Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art 2015 · Talk · 16 min Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling, wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the south side of… Internet Archive Alan Crickmore: How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids 2018 · Talk When a parent is sent to prison, the unintended victims of their crimes are their own children — without stability and support, kids are at higher risk for… Internet Archive Iyad Rahwan: What moral decisions should driverless cars make? 2016 · Talk Should your driverless car kill you if it means saving five pedestrians? In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how… Internet Archive Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform 2014 · Talk · 13 min Seven years ago, Internet activist Aaron Swartz convinced Lawrence Lessig to take up the fight for political reform. A year after Swartz's tragic death,… Internet Archive Mark Pollock and Simone George: A love letter to realism in a time of grief 2018 · Talk When faced with life's toughest circumstances, how should we respond: as an optimist, a realist or something else? In an unforgettable talk, explorer Mark… Internet Archive Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change 2017 · Talk Things are pretty shocking out there right now — record-breaking storms, deadly terror attacks, thousands of migrants disappearing beneath the waves and… Internet Archive Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth 2016 · Talk · 10 min Our lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more. But… Internet Archive Natasha Hurley-Walker: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies 2017 · Talk · 15 min Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) — but a radio telescope… Internet Archive Robin Steinberg: What if we ended the injustice of bail? 2018 · Talk On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. The sums in… Internet Archive Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here 2016 · Talk · 13 min From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can… Internet Archive Vikram Sharma: How quantum physics can make encryption stronger 2017 · Talk As quantum computing matures, it's going to bring unimaginable increases in computational power along with it — and the systems we use to protect our data… Internet Archive Wendy Freedman: This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe 2015 · Talk · 15 min When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will… Internet Archive Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help 2015 · Talk · 4 min In this short, provocative talk, architect Alison Killing looks at buildings where death and dying happen — cemeteries, hospitals, homes. The way we die is… Internet Archive Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included 2012 · Talk · 15 min What do science and play have in common? Neuroscientist Beau Lotto thinks all people (kids included) should participate in science and, through the process of… Internet Archive Jonathan Tepperman: The risky politics of progress 2016 · Talk · 18 min Global problems such as terrorism, inequality and political dysfunction aren't easy to solve, but that doesn't mean we should stop trying. In fact, suggests… Internet Archive Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne 2018 · Talk In this whimsical talk and live demo, scientist Li Wei Tan shares the secrets of bubbles — from their relentless pursuit of geometric perfection to their… Internet Archive BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery 2013 · Talk · 10 min Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, to “walk the dog”? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Japanese yo-yo world… Internet Archive Irina Kareva: Math can help uncover cancer's secrets 2017 · Talk Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of… Internet Archive Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral 2012 · Talk · 7 min Kevin Allocca is YouTube's trends manager, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes… Internet Archive Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, two years on 2008 · Talk · 16 min Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the… Internet Archive Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap 2008 · Talk · 15 min Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do… Internet Archive Tom Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this 2015 · Talk · 8 min Designer Tom Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the… Internet Archive James Beacham: How we explore unanswered questions in physics 2016 · Talk · 15 min James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CERN's Large Hadron… Internet Archive Jun Wang: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices 2017 · Talk What if you could know exactly how food or medication would impact your health — before you put it in your body? Genomics researcher Jun Wang is working to… Internet Archive Veerle Provoost: Do kids think of sperm donors as family? 2016 · Talk · 12 min How do we define a parent — or a family? Bioethicist Veerle Provoost explores these questions in the context of non-traditional families, ones brought… Internet Archive Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer 2012 · Talk · 16 min For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea — that a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on… Internet Archive Paul Hessburg: Why wildfires have gotten worse -- and what we can do about it 2017 · Talk Megafires, individual fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are on the rise in the western United States — the direct result of unintentional yet massive… Internet Archive Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places 2018 · Talk Navigating territorial hippos and active minefields, TED Fellow Steve Boyes and a team of scientists have been traveling through the Okavango Delta, Africa's… Internet Archive Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate 2016 · Talk · 14 min On February 10, 2015, Suzanne Barakat's brother Deah, her sister-in-law Yusor and Yusor's sister Razan were murdered by their neighbor in Chapel Hill, North… Internet Archive Tania Douglas: To design better tech, understand context 2017 · Talk What good is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment to people in Africa if it can't handle the climate there? Biomedical engineer Tania Douglas shares… Internet Archive Theo E.J. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right 2017 · Talk In an unmissable talk about race and politics in America, Theo E.J. Wilson tells the story of becoming Lucius25, white supremacist lurker, and the unexpected… Internet Archive Ai-jen Poo: The work that makes all other work possible 2018 · Talk Domestic workers are entrusted with the most precious aspects of people's lives — they're the nannies, the elder-care workers and the house cleaners who do… Internet Archive Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe 2017 · Talk · 10 min Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from distinct moments in Earth's history — from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water… Internet Archive Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time 2014 · Talk · 8 min Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs'… Internet Archive Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me 2017 · Talk Talent is universal, but opportunity isn't, says TED Fellow Christopher Ategeka. In this charming, hopeful talk, Ategeka tells his story of being orphaned at… Internet Archive Walé Oyéjidé: Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit 2017 · Talk "To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future," says designer and TED Fellow Walé Oyéjidé. With his label… Internet Archive Will MacAskill: How can we do the most good for the world? 2018 · Talk Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will… Internet Archive Dan Berkenstock: The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it ... 2014 · Talk · 9 min We're all familiar with satellite imagery, but what we might now know is that much of it is out of date. That's because satellites are big and expensive, so… Internet Archive Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right 2014 · Talk · 8 min Warning: This talk might contain much more than you’d ever want to know about the way the world poops. But as sanitation activist (and TED Fellow) Francis de… Internet Archive Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy 2013 · Talk · 10 min You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find creative inspiration. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. As he… Internet Archive Luhan Yang: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant 2018 · Talk For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to create a process for transplanting animal organs into humans, a theoretical dream that could help… Internet Archive Steven Johnson on the Web as a city 2008 · Talk · 16 min Outside.in's Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning… Internet Archive Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made -- and what's next 2018 · Talk Women have made enormous progress over the last century — challenging the status quo, busting old taboos and changing business from the inside out. But when… Internet Archive Greg Gage: This computer is learning to read your mind 2018 · Talk Modern technology lets neuroscientists peer into the human brain, but can it also read minds? Armed with the device known as a electroencephalogram, or EEG,… Internet Archive Jean-Paul Mari: The chilling aftershock of a brush with death 2015 · Talk · 15 min In April 2003, just as American troops began rolling into Baghdad, a shell smashed into the building author and war correspondent Jean-Paul Mari was reporting… Internet Archive Özlem Cekic: Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail 2018 · Talk Özlem Cekic's email inbox has been full of hate mail since 2007, when she won a seat in the Danish Parliament — becoming the first female Muslim to do so. At… Internet Archive Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally 2014 · Talk · 6 min The music industry has sometimes struggled to find its feet in the digital world. In this lovely talk, TED Fellow Ryan Holladay tells us why he is… Internet Archive Edsel Salvaña: The dangerous evolution of HIV 2017 · Talk Think we're winning the battle against HIV? Maybe not, as the next wave of drug-resistant viruses arrives. In an eye-opening talk, TED Fellow Edsel Salvana…