Technology in the world's archives

865–912 of 4,359 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. Nothing is left out for being sexual: sexual content and nudity are for adults, placed by what the archive files a film as, never by a word of its title alone (The Naked City is a police film). A film filed as pornography is listed for adults without its picture and plays nowhere yet, as the law where it would play asks for a proof of age this site does not have. A sexual depiction of a child, drawn ones too, is listed nowhere.

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 content, pornography, nudity and nudism, striptease, sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, beheadings, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28605 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv1BDxVwqRk Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive CES Special Las Vegas 1994 - French TV · Subtitles French language version of this program. On location coverage of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Featured analyst is Tim Bajarin, president… Internet Archive MIT HST.S14 Health Information Systems to Improve Quality of Care in Resource-Poor Settings, Spring 2012 2012 · Talk Video lectures of course instructors from Spring 2011 offering of HST.184/HST.S14. Instructor(s): Leo Anthony Celi, Peter Szolovits, Hamish Fraser, Ken Paik… Internet Archive Neil Harbisson: I listen to color 2012 · Talk · 9 min Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies. Instead of seeing a… Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28640 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5jXX0YesGY Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28606 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szpTksAxen0 Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Billy Graham on technology and faith 2008 · Talk · 26 min Speaking at TED in 1998, Rev. Billy Graham marvels at technology's power to improve lives and change the world -- but says the end of evil, suffering and… Internet Archive New Luddites Vs Biopiracy And AI Feb 26 2025 2025 · Film “New Luddites” Camila Morena and Jim Thomas join us fresh from the latest conference on biotech at Asilomar. Up close and deep in the international… Internet Archive WWII RADIO OPERATOR VACUUM TUBE TRAINING FILM 77564 Film This WWII training film familiarizes radio operators with Vacuum Tubes. As the film explains, these are the devices used in radios that control electric… Internet Archive Plug and Play - Spanish TV · Subtitles Spanish language version of this program. Adding peripherals used to be a nightmare with a PC, having to manually figure out all kinds of settings and… Internet Archive Television: Line by Line 1970 · Educational English language version of the film: Zeile für Zeile Shows an animated presentation of the physics and technical basis behind the production of television… Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Harlem 108509 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIJAGq38u2w Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Castle - Koon 24608 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhatSm3KOo Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Electromagnetism – Maxwell’s Laws 2014 · Educational · Subtitles Easy to understand 3D animation explaining all of Maxwell’s Equations. Includes explanations of induction motors, magnetic materials, electromagnetic waves,… Internet Archive E.O. Wilson on saving life on Earth 2007 · Talk · 22 min As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere -- and build a networked… Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28608 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV6HlbsqenQ Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28603 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9D-TTK4n0E Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28616 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9PmDU6eRc Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive ACM CHI 98 1998 · Film "This program is a compilation of 11 videos and 6 video figures. Videos have written summaries in the CHI 98 Summary. Video figures are linked to papers in… Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28618 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdn4ZV3jFNY Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Harlem 108507 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKBI_Zg0J8 Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28644 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvxa71DE-f0 Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Dominick - Swanee 105018 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5zgJHsUIvc Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Computers and Health Care - French TV · Subtitles French language version of this program. A look at how the health care industry is using computer technology. Products demonstrated include The Doctor's Book… Internet Archive Virtual Meetings - French TV · Subtitles French language version of this program. The advent of the internet meant people could now start communicating and collaborating over the web. This program… Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Androscoggin 116259 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOhQa0MSjwc Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive [Electronics At Work] Educational · 26 min Film about how Westinghouse's diverse electronics applications affects modern life. While the can was titled "Electronics At Work" we don't think this is the… Internet Archive Computers and Kids - Spanish TV Spanish language version of this program. A look at how children use computers at home and at school. Products demonstrated include The Amazing Writing… Internet Archive ETRE Barcelona Special - Spanish TV · Subtitles Spanish language version of this program. Highlights of the annual European Technology Roundtable Exhibition held in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain. Guests include… Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28610 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQyEtgjYYk Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Erik Johansson: Impossible photography 2012 · Talk · 6 min Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the… Internet Archive Abby Smith Rumsey And Lisa Ruth Elliott Feb 2018 2018 · Film Abby Smith Rumsey, author of When We Are No More, in conversation with Shaping San Francisco's LisaRuth Elliott, covering topics of memory, technology,… Internet Archive Marco Tempest: The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla 2012 · Talk · 6 min Combining projection mapping and a pop-up book, Marco Tempest tells the visually arresting story of Nikola Tesla -- called “the greatest geek who ever lived”… Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Harlem 109758 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26hsFCY7V8 Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Housatonic 120251 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i6Arx62O8 Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive " ELECTRONICS IN JAPAN TODAY " 1980s JAPANESE HIGH TECH INDUSTRY DOCUMENTARY COMPUTERS VCR XD13854 Documentary This color educational film is about how electronics in Japan are being made and used. This was made in 1980. A speeding express train. The train is… Internet Archive Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from 2010 · Talk · 17 min People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us… Internet Archive Operation Dominic - Housatonic 120250 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG1dXFsbYZA Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us 2006 · Talk · 23 min Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and… Internet Archive Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator 2016 · Talk · 14 min Tim Urban knows that procrastination doesn't make sense, but he's never been able to shake his habit of waiting until the last minute to get things done. In… Internet Archive Operation Teapot - Tesla 28604 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl9p0JVbhdY Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive Is A Career As A Technician For You? 1971 · Film Presents an overview of technicians at work in industrial, commercial, scientific and agricultural settings. Shows role of technician as key assistant to… Internet Archive Singapore Part Three 2002 · TV · Subtitles This is the conclusion of a three-part Computer Chronicles special series exploring high tech developments in Singapore. Internet Archive MIT 2.43 Advanced Thermodynamics, Spring 2024 2024 · Talk · Subtitles Instructor: Gian Paolo Beretta View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/2-43-advanced-thermodynamics-spring-2024/ Complete course table of… Internet Archive MIT3.052S07 Talk · 1 h This course focuses on the latest scientific developments and discoveries in the field of nanomechanics, the study of forces and motion on extremely tiny… Internet Archive Operation Castle - Koon 24604 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMUpYQiObUM Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive PC Trouble Shooting TV · 26 h 3 min · Subtitles Tricks and techniques for fixing your own PC. Originally broadcast in 1996. Internet Archive " ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANS OF THE NAVY " BAT BOMB / SONAR / RADAR POST-WWII RECRUITMENT FILM 72532 Film This post-WWII recruitment film shows U.S. Navy electronic technician training, primarily for operation of sonar and radar gear but also radio and…