Technology in the world's archives

1,105–1,152 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 Bill Gates on mosquitos, malaria and education 2009 · Talk · 20 min Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to… Internet Archive Robert Lang folds way-new origami 2008 · Talk · 15 min Robert Lang is a pioneer of the newest kind of origami -- using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful… Internet Archive Sarah Parcak: Archeology from space 2012 · Talk · 5 min In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of "space archeology" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past… Internet Archive Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D 2011 · Talk · 12 min Ancient monuments give us clues to astonishing past civilizations -- but they're under threat from pollution, war, neglect. Ben Kacyra, who invented a… Internet Archive Qi Zhang's electrifying organ performance 2009 · Talk · 3 min Organ virtuoso Qi Zhang plays her electric rendering of "Ridiculous Fellows" from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" orchestral suite. This exhilarating… Internet Archive Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets 2010 · Talk · 18 min Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and… Internet Archive MIT18.086S06 Talk · Subtitles This graduate-level course is a continuation of Mathematical Methods for Engineers I (18.085). Topics include numerical methods; initial-value problems;… Internet Archive Inductors and Inductance 2015 · Educational · Subtitles How inductors behave in a circuit, and how inductors can generate extremely high voltages by opposing changes to the flow of current. I originally made this… Internet Archive Chris Anderson on TED's nonprofit transition 2008 · Talk · 12 min Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, prior to taking over leadership of TED. Founder Richard Saul Wurman was leaving, and TED's future was in the balance.… Internet Archive Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS 2012 · Talk · 15 min Todd Humphreys forecasts the near-future of geolocation when millimeter-accurate GPS "dots" will enable you to find pin-point locations, index-search your… Internet Archive Capacitors and Capacitance: Capacitor physics and circuit operation 2016 · Educational · Subtitles Capacitor physics and circuit operation explained with easy to understand 3D animations. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at… Internet Archive Magnetic Energy of Hysteresis 2022 · Educational · Subtitles Explains magnetic hysteresis I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky I uploaded it to Internet… Internet Archive Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot 2013 · Talk · 13 min As a novelist, Daniel Suarez spins dystopian tales of the future. But on the TEDGlobal stage, he talks us through a real-life scenario we all need to know… Internet Archive Rob Dunbar: Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice 2010 · Talk · 18 min Rob Dunbar hunts for data on our climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in… Internet Archive Nick Bostrom on our biggest problems 2007 · Talk · 16 min Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve… Internet Archive Ben Saunders skis to the North Pole 2006 · Talk · 18 min Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-before-seen… Internet Archive Freeman Dyson says: let's look for life in the outer solar system 2008 · Talk · 19 min Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks… Internet Archive Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream 2015 · Talk · 14 min There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet — accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from… Internet Archive Peter Donnelly shows how stats fool juries 2006 · Talk · 21 min Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on… Internet Archive Transmission Lines - Signal Transmission and Reflection 2016 · Educational · Subtitles Visualization of the voltages and currents for electrical signals along a transmission line. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at… Internet Archive Semiconductors - Physics inside Transistors and Diodes 2020 · Educational · Subtitles Bipolar junction transistors and diodes explained with energy band levels and electron / hole densities. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel… Internet Archive Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked 2012 · Talk · 16 min Could someone hack your pacemaker? At TEDxMidAtlantic, Avi Rubin explains how hackers are compromising cars, smartphones and medical devices, and warns us… Internet Archive Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science 2013 · Talk · 15 min At age 12, Freeman Hrabowski marched with Martin Luther King. Now he's president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where he works to… Internet Archive Nathan Myhrvold: Cooking as never seen before 2011 · Talk · 10 min Cookbook author (and geek) Nathan Myhrvold talks about his magisterial work, "Modernist Cuisine" -- and shares the secret of its cool photographic… Internet Archive Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online 2010 · Talk · 11 min The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident… Internet Archive Ashton Cofer: A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam 2017 · Talk · 6 min From packing peanuts to disposable coffee cups, each year the US alone produces some two billion pounds of Styrofoam — none of which can be recycled.… Internet Archive What we learned from 5 million books 2011 · Talk · 14 min Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across… Internet Archive Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity 2007 · Talk · 19 min Larry Lessig, the Net’s most celebrated lawyer, cites John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights and the "ASCAP cartel" in his argument for reviving our creative… Internet Archive John Walker re-creates great performances 2008 · Talk · 13 min Imagine hearing great, departed pianists play again today, just as they would in person. John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for… Internet Archive Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars 2011 · Talk · 4 min How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow… Internet Archive Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection 2016 · Talk · 12 min We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the… Internet Archive Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine 2006 · Talk · 18 min Eva Vertes -- only 19 when she gave this talk -- discusses her journey toward studying medicine and her drive to understand the roots of cancer and Alzheimer’s. Internet Archive Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo 2013 · Talk · 5 min What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at… Internet Archive Woody Norris invents amazing things 2009 · Talk · 13 min Woody Norris shows off two of his inventions that treat sound in new ways, and talks about his untraditional approach to inventing and education. As he puts… Internet Archive Christopher deCharms looks inside the brain 2008 · Talk · 4 min Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is… Internet Archive Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy 2011 · Talk · 6 min In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers… Internet Archive Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching 2012 · Talk · 9 min What kind of data is your cell phone company collecting? Malte Spitz wasn’t too worried when he asked his operator in Germany to share information stored… Internet Archive Stephen Petranek: Your kids might live on Mars. Here's how they'll survive 2016 · Talk · 17 min It sounds like science fiction, but journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. In this provocative talk,… Internet Archive Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships 2009 · Talk · 11 min TED Fellow and journalist Evgeny Morozov punctures what he calls "iPod liberalism" -- the assumption that tech innovation always promotes freedom, democracy… Internet Archive James Watson on how he discovered DNA 2007 · Talk · 20 min Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA. Internet Archive Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water 2013 · Talk · 8 min Imagine a country with abundant power -- oil and gas, sunshine, wind (and money) -- but missing one key essential for life: water. Infrastructure engineer… Internet Archive Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world 2012 · Talk · 17 min The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one… Internet Archive Allan Jones: A map of the brain 2011 · Talk · 15 min How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan… Internet Archive Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix 2010 · Talk · 18 min At TEDxNYED, former "young Republican" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more… Internet Archive Raul Midon plays "Tembererana" 2008 · Talk · 10 min Singer/guitarist Raúl Midón performs “All the Answers” in a world premiere at TED2007, followed by the sprightly "Tembererana." Internet Archive Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone 2013 · Talk · 5 min Your smartphone may feel like a friend -- but a true friend would give you a smile once in a while. At TED2013, Keller Rinaudo demos Romo, the… Internet Archive Sheila Patek clocks the fastest animals 2007 · Talk · 16 min Biologist Sheila Patek talks about her work measuring the feeding strike of the mantis shrimp, one of the fastest movements in the animal world, using video… Internet Archive Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone? 2012 · Talk · 19 min As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human…