TED Talks

2,593–2,640 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 Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design 2010 · Talk · 16 min In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing… Internet Archive Salvatore Iaconesi: What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer 2015 · Talk · 10 min When artist Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer, he refused to be a passive patient — which, he points out, means "one who waits." So he hacked… Internet Archive Alex Edmans: What to trust in a "post-truth" world 2017 · Talk Only if you are truly open to the possibility of being wrong can you ever learn, says researcher Alex Edmans. In an insightful talk, he explores how… Internet Archive Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth 2017 · Talk With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like… Internet Archive Michelle Knox: Talk about your death while you're still healthy 2017 · Talk Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, heartfelt talk about a subject most of us would rather not… Internet Archive Miho Janvier: Lessons from a solar storm chaser 2017 · Talk Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Sun and can disrupt life on Earth (while also producing… Internet Archive Noah Feldman: Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship 2017 · Talk The divisiveness plaguing American politics today is nothing new, says constitutional law scholar Noah Feldman. In fact, it dates back to the early days of… Internet Archive Vittorio Loreto: Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known 2017 · Talk "Where do great ideas come from?" Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a journey to explore a possible mathematical scheme that… Internet Archive Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest 2014 · Talk · 4 min In 2002, investigative journalist and TED Fellow Will Potter decided to take a break from his regular beat, writing about shootings and murders for the… Internet Archive Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots 2018 · Talk We're far from developing robots that feel emotions, but we already have feelings towards them, says robot ethicist Kate Darling, and an instinct like that… Internet Archive Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease 2017 · Talk Today's AI algorithms require tens of thousands of expensive medical images to detect a patient's disease. What if we could drastically reduce the amount of… Internet Archive Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes 2017 · Talk What do we really know about mosquitoes? Fredros Okumu catches and studies these disease-carrying insects for a living — with the hope of crashing their… Internet Archive Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion 2010 · Talk · 9 min In a lively talk, neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens makes the case for better protecting our brains against the risk of concussion -- with a compelling pitch for… Internet Archive Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption 2018 · Talk Paula Stone Williams knew from a young age that she was transgender. But as she became a parent and prominent evangelical pastor, she feared that coming out… Internet Archive Salil Dudani: How jails extort the poor 2017 · Talk · 12 min Why do we jail people for being poor? Today, half a million Americans are in jail only because they can't afford to post bail, and still more are locked up… Internet Archive Emiliano Salinas: A civil response to violence 2011 · Talk · 12 min In this passionate talk that's already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, confronts the… Internet Archive Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace 2017 · Talk Africa's youth is coming of age rapidly, but job growth on the continent isn't keeping up. The result: financial insecurity and, in some cases, a turn towards… Internet Archive Rebecca Brachman: Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD? 2016 · Talk · 18 min The path to better medicine is paved with accidental yet revolutionary discoveries. In this well-told tale of how science happens, neuroscientist Rebecca… Internet Archive Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research 2014 · Talk · 11 min Believe it or not, about 20 years' worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can't get the funding to… Internet Archive Xavier De Kestelier: Adventures of an interplanetary architect 2016 · Talk How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon… Internet Archive Andrew Dent: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift 2017 · Talk There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent — when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks into the trash,… Internet Archive DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation 2017 · Talk In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without formal training, these… Internet Archive Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work? 2018 · Talk What does it take to build the fast, flexible, creative teams needed to challenge entrenched work culture? For transformation expert Martin Danoesastro, it… Internet Archive Prosanta Chakrabarty: Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish 2016 · Talk · 4 min TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty explores hidden parts of the world in search of new species of cave-dwelling fish. These subterranean creatures have developed… Internet Archive Rachel Wurzman: How isolation fuels opioid addiction 2017 · Talk What do Tourette syndrome, heroin addiction and social media obsession all have in common? They converge in an area of the brain called the striatum, says… Internet Archive Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail 2009 · Talk · 11 min Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail… Internet Archive Sian Leah Beilock: Why we choke under pressure -- and how to avoid it 2017 · Talk When the pressure is on, why do we sometimes fail to live up to our potential? Cognitive scientist and Barnard College president Sian Leah Beilock reveals… Internet Archive Su Kahumbu: How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time 2017 · Talk Su Kahumbu raises badass cows — healthy, well-fed animals whose protein is key to solving a growing crisis in Africa: childhood nutritional stunting. With… Internet Archive tobacco brown: What gardening taught me about life 2017 · Talk Gardens are mirrors of our lives, says environmental artist tobacco brown, and we must cultivate them with care to harvest their full beauty. Drawing on her… Internet Archive Alexis Charpentier: How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage 2016 · Talk For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultural heritage by "digging" for obscure music created by… Internet Archive Clemantine Wamariya: War and what comes after 2017 · Talk Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when the Rwandan Civil War forced her and her sister to flee their home in Kigali, leaving their parents and everything… Internet Archive Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine 2014 · Talk · 4 min Vending machines generally offer up sodas, candy bars and chips. Not so for the one created by TED Fellow Gabe Barcia-Colombo. This artist has dreamed up a… Internet Archive Lauren Sallan: How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction 2017 · Talk Congratulations! By being here, alive, you are one of history's winners — the culmination of a success story four billion years in the making. The other 99… Internet Archive Marc Bamuthi Joseph: What soccer can teach us about freedom 2017 · Talk "Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his… Internet Archive Mohamed Ali: The link between unemployment and terrorism 2013 · Talk · 9 min For the young and unemployed in the world's big cities, dreams of opportunity and wealth do come true -- but too often because they're heavily recruited by… Internet Archive Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again 2017 · Talk How can Africa, the home to some of the largest bodies of water in the world, be said to have a water crisis? It doesn't, says Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — it has a… Internet Archive Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love Talk · 15 min In love, we fall. We're struck, we're crushed, we swoon. We burn with passion. Love makes us crazy and makes us sick. Our hearts ache, and then they break.… Internet Archive Adam de la Zerda: How we can start winning the war against cancer 2016 · Talk · 12 min Learn about the latest advances in the war against cancer from Stanford researcher Adam de la Zerda, who's working on some cutting-edge techniques of his own.… Internet Archive Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend 2017 · Talk · 7 min In the US, most kids have a very long summer break, during which they forget an awful lot of what they learned during the school year. This "summer slump"… Internet Archive Kathy Hull: Stories from a home for terminally ill children 2017 · Talk · 15 min To honor and celebrate young lives cut short, Kathy Hull founded the first hospice for children in the United States, the George Mark Children's House. Its… Internet Archive Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen 2016 · Talk · 9 min "Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a major league baseball team — every little movement gets picked over by the critics," says… Internet Archive Vikram Patel: Mental health for all by involving all 2012 · Talk · 12 min Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close… Internet Archive Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities 2017 · Talk With more than half of the world population living in cities, one thing is undeniable: we are an urban species. Part game, part urban planning sketching tool,… Internet Archive Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing 2015 · Talk · 14 min Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually… Internet Archive Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research 2018 · Talk Seemingly pointless scientific research can lead to extraordinary discoveries, says physicist Suzie Sheehy. In a talk and tech demo, she shows how many of our… Internet Archive Tal Danino: We can use bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it) 2015 · Talk · 4 min Liver cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to detect, but synthetic biologist Tal Danino had a left-field thought: What if we could create a probiotic,… Internet Archive The Soul Rebels: "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level" 2018 · Talk Live and direct from New Orleans, The Soul Rebels rock the TED stage with a tight, energetic performance blending elements of hip-hop, jazz and funk. The… Internet Archive Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics" 2015 · Talk · 6 min Hooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to…