Technology in the world's archives

1,057–1,104 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 MITSTS.069F02 Talk Aim is to analyze important current events for what they reveal about the nature and working of our technological world. Starting point is connection between… Internet Archive Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness 2013 · Talk · 8 min In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and… Internet Archive Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government 2012 · Talk · 18 min The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In… Internet Archive Clifford Stoll on ... everything 2008 · Talk · 17 min Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by… Internet Archive Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet 2007 · Interview · 29 min Richard Branson talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death… Internet Archive Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow 2009 · Talk · 4 min Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult… Internet Archive Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture 2009 · Talk · 11 min Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and… Internet Archive Caleb Harper: This computer will grow your food in the future 2016 · Talk · 16 min What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of CitiFARM at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change… Internet Archive Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? 2010 · Talk · 9 min Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and… Internet Archive Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring 2017 · Talk · 40 min Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in… Internet Archive Leah Buechley: How to “sketch” with electronics 2012 · Talk · 6 min Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive -- or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like… Internet Archive Brenda Laurel on games for girls 2009 · Talk · 13 min A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world… Internet Archive Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) 2012 · Talk · 19 min From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the… Internet Archive Introduction To The Internet 1996 · Educational This is a VHS tape called "Everything You Need To Know About... Introduction to the Internet" It's apparently "95021" in the series. Internet Archive Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy 2009 · Talk · 5 min In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts… Internet Archive Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face 2009 · Talk · 18 min Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions… Internet Archive Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors 2013 · Talk · 12 min Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic:… Internet Archive Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers 2008 · Talk · 28 min At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project. Internet Archive Space Works, Episode 5 Film Information about some of NASA's activities is included in four 30 minute episodes. Six topics are discussed in Episode 5: unistick vehicle controller to help… Internet Archive Beardyman: The polyphonic me 2013 · Talk · 11 min Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just… Internet Archive Charles Limb: Your brain on improv 2011 · Talk · 16 min Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out.… Internet Archive Ray Dalio: How to build a company where the best ideas win 2017 · Talk What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency… Internet Archive Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions 2008 · Talk · 25 min With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone… Internet Archive Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? 2008 · Talk · 17 min Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign?… Internet Archive Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace 2011 · Talk · 9 min More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the… Internet Archive Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating 2013 · Talk · 17 min Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan… Internet Archive NASA Apollo Digest Mission Control Overview & Computer Systems 78134 Film Made during the Apollo Program, this NASA film shows mission control in Houston, Texas. Flight controllers are seen in the film, including Chris Kraft. Also… Internet Archive Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail 2007 · Talk · 14 min Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an… Internet Archive Vinay Venkatraman: “Technology crafts” for the digitally underserved 2012 · Talk · 14 min Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay… Internet Archive Resonance Circuits: LC Inductor-Capacitor Resonating Circuits 2016 · Educational · Subtitles How current & voltage oscillate at resonant frequency for both parallel and series inductor-capacitor combinations. I originally made this video for my… Internet Archive Towards Computing Era (කොම්පියුටර යුගයක් කරා) - Computerized Banking in Sri Lanka 1985 Sri Lanka 1985 · TV 1985 documentary show in Sri Lanka. talking about computerised banking. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=HArV7s-MFMU\&feature\=youtu.b Internet Archive Photographing QuickTime VR Scenes 1995 · Film Guide to photographing QuickTime VR panoramas. Internet Archive 1983 IBM SYSTEM/36 BUSINESS COMPUTER PROMOTIONAL FILM IBM PC XD13214 Film This color educational/promotional film is about the IBM System/36 (S/36), IBM announced its System/36 on May 16, 1983, to combine data processing, word… Internet Archive Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking 2012 · Talk · 2 min People aren’t just cooking anymore -- they’re cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just… Internet Archive Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call 2012 · Talk · 6 min Parkinson’s disease affects 6.3 million people worldwide, causing weakness and tremors, but there's no objective way to detect it early on. Yet. Applied… Internet Archive Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy 2012 · Talk · 15 min What's the key to using alternative energy, like solar and wind? Storage -- so we can have power on tap even when the sun's not out and the wind's not… Internet Archive Taylor Wilson: Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor 2012 · Talk · 3 min Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of… Internet Archive Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht demo toys from the future 2008 · Talk · 15 min The Inventables guys, Zach Kaplan and Keith Schacht, demo some amazing new materials and how we might use them. Look for squishy magnets, odor-detecting ink,… Internet Archive Aomawa Shields: How we'll find life on other planets 2016 · Talk · 5 min Astronomer Aomawa Shields searches for clues that life might exist elsewhere in the universe by examining the atmospheres of distant exoplanets. When she… Internet Archive Chris Bangle says great cars are Art 2007 · Talk · 20 min American designer Chris Bangle explains his philosophy that car design is an art form in its own right, with an entertaining -- and ultimately moving --… Internet Archive Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters 2014 · Talk · 20 min Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States'… Internet Archive Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities 2012 · Talk · 12 min Eduardo Paes is the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, a sprawling, complicated, beautiful city of 6.5 million. He shares four big ideas about leading Rio -- and all… Internet Archive Nina Tandon: Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? 2012 · Talk · 6 min Each of our bodies is utterly unique, which is a lovely thought until it comes to treating an illness -- when every body reacts differently, often… Internet Archive David Gallo on life in the deep oceans 2008 · Talk · 13 min With vibrant video clips captured by submarines, David Gallo takes us to some of Earth's darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and… Internet Archive George Dyson on Project Orion 2008 · Talk · 8 min Author George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. His insider’s… Internet Archive MIT 3.185 Fall 2003 Faculty Introduction 2005 · Talk View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/materials-science-and-engineering/3-185-transport-phenomena-in-materials-engineering-fall-2003/… Internet Archive " COMMAND AND CONTROL " U.S. ARMY SACCS COLD WAR COMPUTER NETWORK FOR STRATEGIC COMMAND 29434 Film View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD Dating from the late 1960s and presented by U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, “Command and Control” is… Internet Archive Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman 2011 · Talk · 14 min Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful…