TED Talks

2,833–2,880 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 Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning 2014 · Talk · 9 min Think you know a thing or two about sex? Think again. In this fascinating talk, biologist Carin Bondar lays out the surprising science behind how animals get… Internet Archive Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields 2012 · Talk · 15 min Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the best-known methods for treating cancer. At TEDMED, Bill Doyle presents a new approach, called Tumor Treating… Internet Archive Sarah Jones: One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future 2015 · Talk · 25 min In this performance, Sarah Jones brings you to the front row of a classroom in the future, as a teacher plugs in different personas from the year 2016 to show… Internet Archive Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue 2013 · Talk · 17 min Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called "women’s issues.” But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men’s… Internet Archive Al Gore: What comes after An Inconvenient Truth? 2009 · Talk · 7 min At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and… Internet Archive Jonathan Drori: The beautiful tricks of flowers 2011 · Talk · 13 min In this visually dazzling talk, Jonathan Drori shows the extraordinary ways flowering plants -- over a quarter million species -- have evolved to attract… Internet Archive Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans 2011 · Talk · 7 min With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with… Internet Archive Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle 2011 · Talk · 16 min Charles Limb performs cochlear implantation, a surgery that treats hearing loss and can restore the ability to hear speech. But as a musician too, Limb thinks… Internet Archive Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex 2010 · Talk · 16 min At TEDGlobal 2010, author Matt Ridley shows how, throughout history, the engine of human progress has been the meeting and mating of ideas to make new ideas.… Internet Archive Al Gore on averting climate crisis 2006 · Talk · 16 min With the same humor and humanity he exuded in An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore spells out 15 ways that individuals can address climate change immediately, from… Internet Archive Al Gore: The case for optimism on climate change 2016 · Talk · 25 min Al Gore has three questions about climate change and our future. First: Do we have to change? Each day, global-warming pollution traps as much heat energy as… Internet Archive Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story 2010 · Talk · 7 min Pollen goes unnoticed by most of us, except when hay fever strikes. But microscopes reveal it comes in stunning colors and shapes -- and travels remarkably… Internet Archive Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons 2013 · Talk · 11 min Laparoscopic surgery uses minimally invasive incisions -- which means less pain and shorter recovery times for patients. But Steven Schwaitzberg has run into… Internet Archive Nancy Lublin: The heartbreaking text that inspired a crisis help line 2015 · Talk · 9 min When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for help, the organization responded by opening a nationwide Crisis Text Line to provide an… Internet Archive Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life 2014 · Talk · 14 min For many years Sergeant Kevin Briggs had a dark, unusual, at times strangely rewarding job: He patrolled the southern end of San Francisco’s Golden Gate… Internet Archive Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure 2017 · Talk · 17 min Why do girls feel empowered to engage in sexual activity but not to enjoy it? For three years, author Peggy Orenstein interviewed girls ages 15 to 20 about… Internet Archive Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future 2009 · Talk · 18 min Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for… Internet Archive Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers 2010 · Talk · 8 min Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy takes on a terrifying question: How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a… Internet Archive Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts 2011 · Talk · 16 min Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat… Internet Archive Julia Sweeney has "The Talk" 2010 · Talk · 5 min Despite her best efforts, comedian Julia Sweeney is forced to tell a little white lie when her 8-year-old begins learning about frog reproduction -- and… Internet Archive Atul Gawande: Want to get great at something? Get a coach 2017 · Talk How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon's precision. He shares what he's found to be the key:… Internet Archive JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide attempt survivors 2011 · Talk · 4 min Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou,… Internet Archive Karen Tse: How to stop torture 2011 · Talk · 12 min Political prisoners aren't the only ones being tortured -- the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in 'functioning' legal… Internet Archive Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up 2016 · Talk · 19 min Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former… Internet Archive Toni Mac: The laws that sex workers really want 2016 · Talk · 17 min Everyone has an opinion about how to legislate sex work (whether to legalize it, ban it or even tax it) ... but what do workers themselves think would work… Internet Archive Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life 2013 · Talk · 11 min One afternoon, Kees Moeliker got a research opportunity few ornithologists would wish for: A flying duck slammed into his glass office building, died, and… Internet Archive Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart 2012 · Talk · 13 min Tal Golesworthy is a boiler engineer -- he knows piping and plumbing. When he needed surgery to repair a life-threatening problem with his aorta, he mixed his… Internet Archive Tom Rielly delivers a comic sendup of TED2006 2007 · Talk · 19 min Satirist Tom Rielly delivers a wicked parody of the 2006 TED conference, taking down the $100 laptop, the plight of the polar bear, and people who mention,… Internet Archive Sarah Barmak: The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality 2016 · Talk Is women's sexuality actually more complicated than men's? The answer is no, says author Sarah Barmak. In an eye-opening talk, she shows how a flawed… Internet Archive Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores? 2014 · Talk · 14 min An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of… Internet Archive Eve Ensler: happiness in body and soul 2006 · Talk · 20 min Eve Ensler, creator of "The Vagina Monologues," shares how a discussion about menopause with her friends led to talking about all sorts of sexual acts… Internet Archive Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine 2012 · Talk · 11 min What if you're in surgery and the power goes out? No lights, no oxygen -- and your anesthesia stops flowing. It happens constantly in hospitals throughout the… Internet Archive Jocelyne Bloch: The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help 2016 · Talk · 11 min Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain's inability to repair itself all too well. But… Internet Archive Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby? 2012 · Talk · 17 min Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked… Internet Archive Sue Klebold: My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story 2017 · Talk · 15 min Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher.… Internet Archive Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy 2013 · Talk · 13 min What is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim thrill” -- that is,… Internet Archive Our Story of Rape and Reconciliation 2017 · Talk · 22 min In 1996, Thordis Elva shared a teenage romance with Tom Stranger, an exchange student from Australia. After a school dance, Tom raped Thordis, after which… Internet Archive Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against gender violence 2014 · Talk · 14 min This talk begins with a personal story of sexual violence that may be difficult to listen to. But that’s the point, says citizen journalist Meera Vijayann:… Internet Archive Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book 2011 · Talk · 4 min Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad -- with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data… Internet Archive Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery 2011 · Talk · 16 min Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED… Internet Archive Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine 2016 · Talk · 17 min Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision — and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B.… Internet Archive Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains? 2014 · Talk · 10 min As an expert on cutting-edge digital displays, Mary Lou Jepsen studies how to show our most creative ideas on screens. And as a brain surgery patient herself,… Internet Archive Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ kinky sex lives 2015 · Talk · 12 min Marlene Zuk delightedly, determinedly studies insects. In this enlightening, funny talk, she shares just some of the ways that they are truly astonishing —… Internet Archive Yves Behar on designing objects that tell stories 2008 · Talk · 17 min Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the… Internet Archive Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers 2015 · Talk · 9 min The Internet has transformed the front lines of war, and it's leaving governments behind. As security analyst Rodrigo Bijou shows, modern conflict is being… Internet Archive Tara Houska: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights 2017 · Talk Still invisible and often an afterthought, indigenous peoples are uniting to protect the world's water, lands and history — while trying to heal from genocide… Internet Archive Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV -- let's get rational 2010 · Talk · 19 min Armed with bracing logic, wit and her public-health nerd glasses, Elizabeth Pisani reveals the myriad of inconsistencies in today's political systems that… Internet Archive Keith Bellows on the camel's hump 2008 · Talk · 16 min Keith Bellows gleefully outlines the engineering marvels of the camel, a vital creature he calls "the SUV of the desert." Though he couldn't bring a live…