Technology in the world's archives

1,297–1,344 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 Sonaar Luthra: Meet the Water Canary 2012 · Talk · 3 min After a crisis, how can we tell if water is safe to drink? Current tests are slow and complex, and the delay can be deadly, as in the cholera outbreak after… Internet Archive Mena Trott on blogs 2006 · Talk · 16 min The founding mother of the blog revolution, Movable Type's Mena Trott, talks about the early days of blogging, when she realized that giving regular people… Internet Archive James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss 2009 · Talk · 19 min Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming… Internet Archive Yuval Noah Harari: Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it 2018 · Talk In a profound talk about technology and power, author and historian Yuval Noah Harari explains the important difference between fascism and nationalism — and… Internet Archive Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure 2016 · Talk · 15 min "Great dreams aren't just visions," says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real." The head of X (formerly Google X), Teller… Internet Archive Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs 2007 · Talk · 17 min MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple… Internet Archive Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning 2006 · Talk · 18 min Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing… Internet Archive Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers 2010 · Talk · 17 min From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the… Internet Archive Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach 2012 · Talk · 5 min Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make… Internet Archive Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves? 2011 · Talk · 6 min MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that… Internet Archive Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs 2011 · Talk · 16 min Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from ...) led her… Internet Archive Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport 2013 · Talk · 16 min When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. One rectified diagnosis and a transplant later,… Internet Archive Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu 2009 · Talk · 21 min In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED… Internet Archive " NUCLEAR REACTORS FOR RESEARCH" 1955 LOW POWER ATOMIC RESEARCH REACTORS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING XD13904 Film This color educational film is about building a compact solution nuclear reactor. Copyright 1955. Opening titles: Nuclear Reactors for Research (:06-:08). A… Internet Archive Catherine Mohr builds green 2010 · Talk · 6 min In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house -- looking at real… Internet Archive Stephen Wilkes: The passing of time, caught in a single photo 2016 · Talk · 12 min Photographer Stephen Wilkes crafts stunning compositions of landscapes as they transition from day to night, exploring the space-time continuum within a… Internet Archive MIT 16.01 Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV, Fall 2005 Talk The basic objective of Unified Engineering is to give a solid understanding of the fundamental disciplines of aerospace engineering, as well as their… Internet Archive Jill Heinerth: The mysterious world of underwater caves 2016 · Talk · 6 min Cave diver Jill Heinerth explores the hidden underground waterways coursing through our planet. Working with biologists, climatologists and archaeologists,… Internet Archive Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air 2009 · Talk · 4 min Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably… Internet Archive Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face 2009 · Talk · 6 min At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so… Internet Archive Burt Rutan sees the future of space 2006 · Talk · 19 min In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to… Internet Archive Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home 2012 · Talk · 7 min Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy that expensive spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASAJPL's "Eyes on the Solar System" -- free-to-use… Internet Archive Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk 2011 · Talk · 14 min Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How… Internet Archive John La Grou plugs smart power outlets 2009 · Talk · 4 min John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention,… Internet Archive Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil 2009 · Talk · 16 min Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response,… Internet Archive Clay Shirky: How social media can make history 2009 · Talk · 15 min While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news,… Internet Archive Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet 2014 · Talk · 35 min Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a… Internet Archive David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? 2015 · Talk · 20 min As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by… Internet Archive Aimee Mullins on running 2009 · Talk · 20 min In this TED archive video from 1998, paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner, and about the amazing carbon-fiber… Internet Archive Paul MacCready flies on solar wings 2007 · Talk · 21 min Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career. Internet Archive Alan Russell on regenerating our bodies 2007 · Talk · 19 min Alan Russell studies regenerative medicine -- a breakthrough way of thinking about disease and injury, using a process that can signal the body to rebuild… Internet Archive Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright 2010 · Talk · 5 min Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at… Internet Archive Marco Tempest: A magical tale (with augmented reality) 2012 · Talk · 6 min Marco Tempest spins a beautiful story of what magic is, how it entertains us and how it highlights our humanity -- all while working extraordinary illusions… Internet Archive Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard 2016 · Talk · 9 min Forests don't have to be far-flung nature reserves, isolated from human life. Instead, we can grow them right where we are — even in cities. Eco-entrepreneur… Internet Archive William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer? 2010 · Talk · 20 min William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor.… Internet Archive Better Mind the Computer 1983 · Educational · 51 min Internet Archive Barry Schuler: Genomics 101 2009 · Talk · 21 min What is genomics? How will it affect our lives? In this intriguing primer on the genomics revolution, entrepreneur Barry Schuler says we can at least expect… Internet Archive Marco Tempest: Augmented reality, techno-magic 2011 · Talk · 5 min Using sleight-of-hand techniques and charming storytelling, illusionist Marco Tempest brings a jaunty stick figure to life onstage at TEDGlobal. Internet Archive David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation 2009 · Talk · 16 min For tens of thousands of years our ancestors understood the world through myths, and the pace of change was glacial. The rise of scientific understanding… Internet Archive Erik Hersman on reporting crisis via texting 2009 · Talk · 4 min At TEDU 2009, Erik Hersman presents the remarkable story of Ushahidi, a GoogleMap mashup that allowed Kenyans to report and track violence via cell phone… Internet Archive Towards Computing Era (කොම්පියුටර යුගයක් කරා) - Sri Lanka 1985 · TV A Sri Lankan TV Show Aired in the 1980's on Computing In Sri Lanka Internet Archive Jim Yong Kim: Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life? 2017 · Talk · 22 min Aspirations are rising as never before across the world, thanks in large part to smartphones and the internet — will they be met with opportunity or… Internet Archive Karissa Sanbonmatsu: The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain 2018 · Talk How exactly does gender work? It's not just about our chromosomes, says biologist Karissa Sanbonmatsu. In a visionary talk, she shares new discoveries from… Internet Archive Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed 2018 · Talk The Chinese internet has grown at a staggering pace — it now has more users than the combined populations of the US, UK, Russia, Germany, France and Canada.… Internet Archive Radio Shack Commercials and other Videos - Various [Rip From radioshackcatalogs.org 15 May, 2020] 2020 · Commercial A rip of the commercials, and other videos, posted on the site radioshackcatalogs.org. All flash has been converted to mp4, various audio codecs used. This is… Internet Archive Alessandra Orofino: It’s our city. Let’s fix it 2014 · Talk · 15 min Too often, people feel checked out of politics — even at the level of their own city. But urban activist Alessandra Orofino thinks that can change, using a… Internet Archive Daniele Quercia: Happy maps 2015 · Talk · 7 min Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into… Internet Archive Niels Diffrient rethinks the way we sit down 2009 · Talk · 17 min Design legend Niels Diffrient talks about his life in industrial design (and the reason he became a designer instead of a jet pilot). He details his quest to…