Technology in the world's archives

1,153–1,200 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 Franco Sacchi tours Nigeria's booming Nollywood 2008 · Talk · 17 min Zambia-born filmmaker Franco Sacchi tours us through Nollywood, Nigeria's booming film industry (the world's 3rd largest). Guerrilla filmmaking and brilliance… Internet Archive Neil Turok makes his TED Prize wish 2008 · Talk · 24 min Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, physicist Neil Turok speaks out for talented young Africans starved of opportunity: by unlocking and nurturing the continent's… Internet Archive Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone 2009 · Talk · 16 min In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to explore… Internet Archive Electric Circuits: Basics of the voltage and current laws. 2015 · Educational · Subtitles Introduction to electric circuits and electricity. Includes Kirchhoff's Voltage Law and Kirchhoff's Current Law. I originally made this video for my YouTube… Internet Archive Zener Diodes in electric circuits - Voltage Regulators & Transient Suppressors 2019 · Educational · Subtitles Zener diodes, reverse breakdown voltage, and its applications. Includes linear voltage regulators and bidirectional transient voltage suppressors. I… Internet Archive Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body? 2012 · Talk · 3 min TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows… Internet Archive Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really. 2013 · Talk · 14 min Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in… Internet Archive Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster -- from scratch 2011 · Talk · 10 min It takes an entire civilization to build a toaster. Designer Thomas Thwaites found out the hard way, by attempting to build one from scratch: mining ore for… Internet Archive MITSP.784S07 Talk According to the United States Agency for International Development, 20 million people in developing countries require wheelchairs, and the United Nations… Internet Archive Pamelia Kurstin plays the theremin 2008 · Talk · 19 min Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs… Internet Archive Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel 2013 · Talk · 5 min The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants… Internet Archive Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks 2010 · Talk · 19 min The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for… Internet Archive INVENTIONS IN AMERICA'S GROWTH 1850-1910 PHONOGRAPH, TELEPHONE, LIGHT BULB Print 2 PH57754 Film In this 1956 film by Coronet Instructional Films, INVENTIONS IN AMERICA'S GROWTH, the recollections of Scientific America editor Jonathan Sharpe tell about… Internet Archive Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids 2011 · Talk · 14 min What's six miles wide and can end civilization in an instant? An asteroid -- and there are lots of them out there. With humor and great visuals, Phil Plait… Internet Archive David Sedlak: 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought 2016 · Talk · 13 min As the world's climate patterns continue to shift unpredictably, places where drinking water was once abundant may soon find reservoirs dry and groundwater… Internet Archive Online Tips TV · 26 h 43 min Enter a description here Internet Archive NASA APOLLO LUNAR PROGRAM RE-ENTRY SIMULATION FILM 78074 Film Made at the early in the Apollo Program, this film details the simulator built to test the control and maneuverability systems for the re-entry of the space… Internet Archive “ INVENTIONS IN AMERICA’S GROWTH 1750-1850 ” 1956 CLASSROOM FILM COTTON GIN STEAM ENGINE PH24854 Film This 1956 film produced in the Coronet Instructional Film series looks at some early American inventions and how they have improved the lives of people. It… Internet Archive Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life 2008 · Talk · 15 min "Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" Craig Venter asks. His answer is "yes" -- and pretty soon. He walks through his latest research and… Internet Archive Carter Emmart demos a 3D atlas of the universe 2010 · Talk · 6 min For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our… Internet Archive Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity 2018 · Talk AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details how the US and… Internet Archive MITSP.724F05 Talk For students and teams who have started a sustainable-development project in D-Lab (SP.776), Product Engineering Processes (2.009), or elsewhere, this class… Internet Archive Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness 2009 · Talk · 19 min Feeling like the world is becoming less friendly? Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain begs to difffer. The Internet, he suggests, is made up of millions of… Internet Archive Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration 2011 · Talk · 16 min After re-purposing CAPTCHA so each human-typed response helps digitize books, Luis von Ahn wondered how else to use small contributions by many on the… Internet Archive Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt 2013 · Talk · 6 min Paved roads are nice to look at, but they’re easily damaged and costly to repair. Erik Schlangen demos a new type of porous asphalt made of simple materials… Internet Archive Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut 2010 · Talk · 15 min Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a hundred million of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about the "hidden… Internet Archive Jeff Bezos on the next web innovation 2007 · Talk · 17 min The dot-com boom and bust is often compared to the Gold Rush. But Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos says it’s more like the early days of the electric industry. Internet Archive Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything 2008 · Talk · 21 min Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else,… Internet Archive Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe 2009 · Talk · 4 min Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts,… Internet Archive Caleb Chung plays with Pleo 2008 · Talk · 18 min Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy… Internet Archive Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy 2009 · Talk · 9 min We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating… Internet Archive Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk" 2009 · Talk · 18 min Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has… Internet Archive “BOOBYTRAP!” 1972 INSURANCE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHWAY SAFETY FREEWAY ENGINEERING & DESIGN XD37084 Film This 1972 color film from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety presents cautionary advice on avoiding the perils of a number of common roadside… Internet Archive Kevin Kelly tells technology's epic story 2010 · Talk · 16 min In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking talk from TEDxAmsterdam, Kevin Kelly muses on what technology means in our lives -- from its impact at the personal… Internet Archive Alan Kay shares a powerful idea about ideas 2008 · Talk · 20 min With all the intensity and brilliance for which he is known, Alan Kay envisions better techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate… Internet Archive Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality 2012 · Talk · 8 min Matt Mills and Tamara Roukaerts demonstrate Aurasma, a new augmented reality tool that can seamlessly animate the world as seen through a smartphone. Going… Internet Archive Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code 2013 · Talk · 16 min Coding isn’t just for computer whizzes, says Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab -- it’s for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of… Internet Archive Robert Full on animal movement 2007 · Talk · 19 min Biologist Robert Full shares slo-mo video of some captivating critters. Take a closer look at the spiny legs that allow cockroaches to scuttle across mesh and… Internet Archive Transformers - Electric Power transmission 2015 · Educational · Subtitles Visualization of how electric transformers operate. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky I… Internet Archive Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination 2012 · Talk · 15 min Massimo Banzi helped invent the Arduino, a tiny, easy-to-use open-source microcontroller that's inspired thousands of people around the world to make the… Internet Archive Alessandro Acquisti: Why privacy matters 2013 · Talk · 15 min The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means… Internet Archive Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain 2008 · Talk · 16 min Researcher Kwabena Boahen is looking for ways to mimic the brain's supercomputing powers in silicon -- because the messy, redundant processes inside our heads… Internet Archive Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future 2011 · Talk · 9 min Fiorenzo Omenetto shares 20+ astonishing new uses for silk, one of nature's most elegant materials -- in transmitting light, improving sustainability, adding… Internet Archive Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data 2014 · Talk · 15 min Self-driving cars were just the start. What's the future of big data-driven technology and design? In a thrilling science talk, Kenneth Cukier looks at what's… Internet Archive Vijay Kumar: The future of flying robots 2015 · Talk · 13 min At his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team have created autonomous aerial robots inspired by honeybees. Their latest breakthrough:… Internet Archive Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" 2011 · Talk · 9 min As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We… Internet Archive George Tulevski: The next step in nanotechnology 2017 · Talk · 9 min Every year the silicon computer chip shrinks in size by half and doubles in power, enabling our devices to become more mobile and accessible. But what happens… Internet Archive Murray Gell-Mann on beauty and truth in physics 2007 · Talk · 16 min Armed with a sense of humor and laypeople's terms, Nobel winner Murray Gell-Mann drops some knowledge on TEDsters about particle physics, asking questions…