Technology in the world's archives

1,009–1,056 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 Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair 2012 · Talk · 11 min How do you build a wheelchair ready to blaze through mud and sand, all for under $200? MIT engineer Amos Winter guides us through the mechanics of an… Internet Archive Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost 2013 · Talk · 4 min Imagine an electric vehicle that can get you to work -- or anywhere in a six-mile radius -- quickly, without traffic frustrations or gasoline. Now imagine you… Internet Archive Shai Agassi's bold plan for electric cars 2009 · Talk · 18 min Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to… Internet Archive Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness 2011 · Talk · 10 min At TEDMED, Sheila Nirenberg shows a bold way to create sight in people with certain kinds of blindness: by hooking into the optic nerve and sending signals… Internet Archive Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders 2010 · Talk · 14 min Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions -- and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice… Internet Archive Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer 2011 · Talk · 4 min Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a… Internet Archive MIT 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy, Fall 2022 2022 · Talk · Subtitles Instructor: Prof. David Hsu View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-165j-urban-energy-systems-and-policy-fall-2022/ *Note: Videos for… Internet Archive Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass? 2013 · Talk · 7 min It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass?… Internet Archive Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate 2012 · Talk · 16 min In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for… Internet Archive Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn 2010 · Talk · 8 min Christien Meindertsma, author of "Pig 05049" looks at the astonishing afterlife of the ordinary pig, parts of which make their way into at least 185 non-pork… Internet Archive Teach Yourself Excel 97 for Windows 95 1997 · Film Excel 97 video tutorial. Internet Archive Eric Giler demos wireless electricity 2009 · Talk · 10 min Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough… Internet Archive [Armstrong Cork Freezer Locker Film] Film From a title: "This film shows typical scenes in the operation of a modern locker storage plant." A description of the business of offsite frozen food storage… Internet Archive Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound 2011 · Talk · 11 min Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted… Internet Archive Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock 2011 · Talk · 16 min Bill Ford is a car guy -- his great-grandfather was Henry Ford, and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Co. So when he worries about cars' impact on the… Internet Archive Joel Selanikio: The surprising seeds of a big-data revolution in healthcare 2013 · Talk · 16 min Collecting global health data was an imperfect science: Workers tramped through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, wrote the answers on paper… Internet Archive John Maeda: How art, technology and design inform creative leaders 2012 · Talk · 16 min John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology,… Internet Archive Dr. Seyi Oyesola tours a hospital in Nigeria 2008 · Talk · 14 min Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all low-tech hacks and… Internet Archive Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense 2009 · Talk · 8 min This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for… Internet Archive Expanding Common Wealth Oct 9 2019 2019 · Film Rejecting the paradigms of capitalist San Francisco, let’s look at a radically expanded Common Wealth, starting here, but with implications for our entire… Internet Archive Michael Merzenich on re-wiring the brain 2009 · Talk · 23 min Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain's incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself. He's researching ways to… Internet Archive Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city 2012 · Talk · 16 min How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make… Internet Archive MIT CMS.595 Learning, Media, and Technology, Spring 2024 2024 · Talk · Subtitles Instructor: Justin Reich View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-595-learning-media-and-technology-spring-2024/ YouTube Playlist:… Internet Archive Tom Wujec demos the 13th-century astrolabe 2009 · Talk · 9 min Rather than demo another new technology, Tom Wujec reaches back to one of our earliest but most ingenious devices -- the astrolabe. With thousands of uses,… Internet Archive Bill Gates: Innovating to zero! 2010 · Talk · 27 min At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for miracles to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why… Internet Archive Frank Gehry as a young rebel 2008 · Talk · 44 min Before he was a legend, architect Frank Gehry takes a whistlestop tour of his early work, from his house in Venice Beach to the American Center in Paris,… Internet Archive Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells 2012 · Talk · 14 min Calling them "our bodies' own repair kits," Susan Solomon advocates research using lab-grown stem cells. By growing individual pluripotent stem cell lines,… Internet Archive Ze Frank's nerdcore comedy 2006 · Talk · 19 min Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore standup routine, then tells us what he's seriously passionate about: helping people create… Internet Archive Kary Mullis celebrates the experiment 2009 · Talk · 29 min Biochemist Kary Mullis talks about the basis of modern science: the experiment. Sharing tales from the 17th century and from his own backyard-rocketry days,… Internet Archive Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters 2013 · Talk · 16 min In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that… Internet Archive David Deutsch on our place in the cosmos 2006 · Talk · 19 min Legendary scientist David Deutsch puts theoretical physics on the back burner to discuss a more urgent matter: the survival of our species. The first step… Internet Archive Brian Cox: What went wrong at the LHC 2009 · Talk · 3 min In this short talk from TED U 2009, Brian Cox shares what's new with the CERN supercollider. He covers the repairs now underway and what the future holds for… Internet Archive Helen Fisher studies the brain in love 2008 · Talk · 15 min Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen… Internet Archive Bill Stone: Exploring deep caves (and someday the moon) 2007 · Talk · 17 min Bill Stone, a maverick cave explorer who has plumbed Earth’s deepest abysses, discusses his efforts to mine lunar ice for space fuel and to build an… Internet Archive MIT 1.00 Introduction to Computers and Engineering Problem Solving, Fall 2005 Talk This course teaches fundamental software development and computational methods for engineering, scientific and managerial applications. Emphasis is focused on… Internet Archive Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots 2011 · Talk · 14 min As a grad student, Cynthia Breazeal wondered why we were using robots on Mars, but not in our living rooms. The key, she realized: training robots to interact… Internet Archive John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was 2012 · Talk · 12 min Computer science began in the 30's ... the 1830's. John Graham-Cumming tells the story of Charles Babbage's mechanical, steam-powered "analytical engine" and… Internet Archive Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course 2012 · Talk · 16 min Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away… Internet Archive Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ... 2013 · Talk · 21 min Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details… Internet Archive Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux 2016 · Interview · 21 min Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management… Internet Archive MITSP.772S05 2005 · Talk · 1 h 19 min This course is based on the work of the MIT-African Internet Technology Initiative (MIT-AITI). MIT-AITI is an innovative approach by MIT students to integrate… Internet Archive Bruce Schneier: The security mirage 2011 · Talk · 21 min The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. At TEDxPSU, he explains why we spend… Internet Archive Three phase electric power and phasor diagrams explained 2019 · Educational · Subtitles Electricity and Three phase power: Voltage and current "Line to Neutral", "Line to Line", and Phasor Diagrams. I originally made this video for my YouTube… Internet Archive AV Geeks Lunch 6 21 2022 (i00608) 2022 · Home movie AV Geeks Lunch 6 21 2022 AV Geeks Lunch 608 aired live on Tuesday, Jun 21, 2022 screening: Culver Home Movies Reel E - 0:00:34 Shaping Tomorrow - 0:15:05 Dust… Internet Archive Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone 2012 · Talk · 25 min "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In… Internet Archive Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning 2013 · Talk · 6 min It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the… Internet Archive George Dyson at the birth of the computer 2008 · Talk · 17 min Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer… Internet Archive Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections 2009 · Talk · 4 min Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary…