Technology in the world's archives

961–1,008 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 [Carbon Rod Manufacturing] Film Factory workers producing carbon rods, also known as "carbons" for carbon arc lamps used in film projectors and other bright light applications. The Germany… Internet Archive Maya Beiser(s) and her cello(s) 2011 · Talk · 20 min Cellist Maya Beiser plays a gorgeous eight-part modern etude with seven copies of herself, and segues into a meditative music/video hybrid -- using tech to… Internet Archive Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world 2008 · Talk · 17 min Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even… Internet Archive MIT MAS.771: Autism Theory and Technology, Spring 2011 2011 · Talk · 1 h 44 min Ted Carr Guest Lecture Ted Carr (Full name Edward G. Carr), a psychology professor at Stonybrook and autism specialist, gives a guest lecture about autism… Internet Archive Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning 2011 · Talk · 15 min At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build… Internet Archive Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me 2012 · Talk · 4 min Melissa Marshall brings a message to all scientists (from non-scientists): We're fascinated by what you're doing. So tell us about it -- in a way we can… Internet Archive Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions 2013 · Talk · 7 min In the Masai community where 13-year-old Richard Turere lives, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring… Internet Archive HISTORY OF H.J. HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP THE SEARCH FOR THE PERFECT TOMATO 76054 Film This rarely seen 1940s corporate film attempts to explain the history of the H.J. Heinz Company and one of its all time great products, tomato ketchup. It… Internet Archive David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization 2010 · Talk · 17 min David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease… Internet Archive Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready? 2013 · Talk · 18 min Throughout humankind's history, we've driven species after species extinct: the passenger pigeon, the Eastern cougar the dodo .... But now, says Stewart… Internet Archive A.C. Gilbert - "Science Means Business" 1963 · Commercial Not so much a commercial as an infomercial. This 10 minute 1963 promotional reel for the A.C. Gilbert company highlights childrens' microscopes, telescopes,… Internet Archive 1954 CBS "THE SEARCH" DOCUMENTARY M.I.T. AUTOMATIC ROBOTS & DIGITAL COMPUTERS WHIRLWIND 88394 Documentary This film is an episode of ‘The Search’ a pioneering educational program that aired on CBS. This episode takes a look at the laboratories and plants that… Internet Archive Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes 2012 · Talk · 11 min Inspired by cell division, Michael Hansmeyer writes algorithms that design outrageously fascinating shapes and forms with millions of facets. No person could… Internet Archive Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment 2012 · Talk · 10 min When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in… Internet Archive Frag of the Day part 20 2005 · Cartoon A short machinima made in the Counter Strike: Source. 6.4Mb 0:55 480x270 24fps dixv Internet Archive A robot that flies like a bird 2011 · Talk · 6 min Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight… Internet Archive William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes 2012 · Talk · 14 min How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course!… Internet Archive Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live 2013 · Talk · 12 min Composer and conductor Eric Whitacre has inspired millions by bringing together "virtual choirs," singers from many countries spliced together on video. Now,… Internet Archive Bill Clinton on rebuilding Rwanda 2007 · Talk · 24 min Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. Internet Archive Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) 2011 · Talk · 5 min Using three iPods like magical props, Marco Tempest spins a clever, surprisingly heartfelt meditation on truth and lies, art and emotion. Internet Archive R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products 2010 · Talk · 19 min Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive… Internet Archive Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy 2017 · Talk What are our screens and devices doing to us? Psychologist Adam Alter studies how much time screens steal from us and how they're getting away with it. He… Internet Archive Edith Widder: How we found the giant squid 2013 · Talk · 8 min Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never… Internet Archive Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net 2011 · Talk · 17 min It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage.… Internet Archive Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world 2012 · Talk · 12 min The world is changing much more rapidly than most people realize, says business educator Eddie Obeng -- and creative output cannot keep up. In this spirited… Internet Archive Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media “likes” say more than you might think 2014 · Talk · 9 min Much can be done with online data. But did you know that computer wonks once determined that liking a Facebook page about curly fries means you're also… Internet Archive Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for the Indus script 2011 · Talk · 17 min Rajesh Rao is fascinated by "the mother of all crossword puzzles": How to decipher the 4000 year old Indus script. At TED 2011 he tells how he is enlisting… Internet Archive James Veitch: This is what happens when you reply to spam email 2016 · Talk · 9 min Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes,… Internet Archive “COMPUTERS AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR” 1962 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH EXPERIMENTS W/ DIGITAL COMPUTERS XD11774 Film Produced in 1963, "Computers and Human Behavior" was part of a series called "Focus on Behavior" produced by Mitchell Grayson and directed by Grayson and… Internet Archive Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education 2012 · Talk · 20 min Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people… Internet Archive Emily Levine's theory of everything 2009 · Talk · 22 min Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes… Internet Archive " RADIO & TELEVISION " 1940 RADIO AND TELEVISION TECHNOLOGY & BROADCAST CAREER GUIDANCE FILM X XD15464 Film This educational film made by Burton Holmes Films for Vocational Guidance Films' "Your Life Work Series" (:08) displays advancements in radio and television.… Internet Archive IBM 7070 MAINFRAME COMPUTER SYSTEM 1960 PROMO FILM (SILENT) TRANSISTORIZED COMPUTING XD59804 Film This (silent) 1960 film shows an IBM 7070 mainframe computer system in operation, running program to calculate customer billing for a utility (e.g., gas or… Internet Archive Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 2013 · Talk · 22 min Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore… Internet Archive Voltage Current Electricity Magnetism 2011 · Educational · Subtitles Introduction to voltage, current, electricity, and magnetism. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutory… Internet Archive MAS.962 Special Topics: New Textiles, Spring 2010 2010 · Talk · 1 min This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting traditions with new technologies. Topics will… Internet Archive Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity 2009 · Talk · 8 min Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity… Internet Archive PW Singer on military robots and the future of war 2009 · Talk · 18 min In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of… Internet Archive Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone 2012 · Talk · 9 min Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… Internet Archive Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when 2009 · Talk · 15 min Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic… Internet Archive SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART IN THE USSR 1960s COLD WAR ERA EDUCATIONAL FILM SOVIET UNION 30644 Educational This color educational film was created as part of a series of Russian language teaching films. The film is presented entirely in Russian. The focus of the… Internet Archive Jared Diamond on why societies collapse 2008 · Talk · 18 min Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the… Internet Archive AETNA DRIVOTRAINER DRIVER'S ED DRIVING SIMULATOR w/ COMPUTER SCORECARD 90904 Film This promotional film from the 1950s provides an introduction to the Aetna Drivotrainer, one of the world's first automobile simulators. As the film explains,… Internet Archive James Veitch: The agony of trying to unsubscribe 2016 · Talk · 7 min It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox.… Internet Archive Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing" 2013 · Talk · 8 min 3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the… Internet Archive Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine 2010 · Talk · 16 min Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important… Internet Archive Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good 2017 · Talk We give scientists and engineers great technical training, but we're not as good at teaching ethical decision-making or building character. Take, for example,… Internet Archive Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family 2013 · Talk · 18 min Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family…