Technology in the world's archives

1,345–1,392 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 Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice 2015 · Talk · 6 min By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of… Internet Archive Thomas Barnett draws a new map for peace 2007 · Talk · 23 min In this bracingly honest talk, international security strategist Thomas Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering U.S. military that is… Internet Archive Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves 2010 · Talk · 10 min Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with… Internet Archive Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit 2009 · Talk · 12 min Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports -- an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over… Internet Archive Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? 2009 · Talk · 3 min Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the moon's… Internet Archive Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google 2007 · Talk · 20 min Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic… Internet Archive Tod Machover and Dan Ellsey play new music 2008 · Talk · 20 min Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression to everyone, from virtuosos to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms, from opera… Internet Archive Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole 2009 · Talk · 16 min With new data from the Keck telescopes, Andrea Ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most… Internet Archive Harry Cliff: Have we reached the end of physics? 2016 · Talk · 14 min Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does so much interesting stuff exist in the universe? Particle physicist Harry Cliff works on the Large Hadron… Internet Archive Juan Enriquez: What will humans look like in 100 years? 2016 · Talk · 15 min We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals — futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from… Internet Archive Los 3 (+1.0) finales de Evangelion 2021 · Cartoon ¿Qué significa el final de Evangelion? Depende, porque hay 4 y uno ni siquiera es final. Esto se descargó de Facebook Watch y todos los derechos le pertenecen… Internet Archive Gever Tulley 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do 2007 · Talk · 9 min At TED U, Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do -- and why a little danger is good for both… Internet Archive John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal 2011 · Talk · 11 min Use dancers instead of powerpoint. That's science writer John Bohannon's "modest proposal." In this spellbinding choreographed talk from TEDxBrussels he makes… Internet Archive Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows 2008 · Talk · 10 min Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid… Internet Archive " UNDERSTANDING ELECTRONICS: VACUUM TUBES " 1970 EDUCATIONAL FILM DIODES & TRIODES XD7259 Educational “Understanding Electronics: Vacuum Tubes” is a color, educational film from 1970. Presented by Universal Education and Visual Arts in collaboration with… Internet Archive The interspecies internet? An idea in progress… 2013 · Talk · 20 min Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and… Internet Archive Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web 2009 · Talk · 16 min 20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he's building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the… Internet Archive Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor) 2011 · Talk · 7 min Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art… Internet Archive Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure 2010 · Talk · 17 min For the dawn of a new decade, adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible. He shares his own plans to do what… Internet Archive Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth 2007 · Talk · 7 min Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the… Internet Archive Marco Annunziata: Welcome to the age of the industrial internet 2013 · Talk · 12 min Everyone's talking about the "Internet of Things," but what exactly does that mean for our future? In this thoughtful talk, economist Marco Annunziata looks… Internet Archive David Lang: My underwater robot 2013 · Talk · 4 min David Lang is a maker who taught himself to become an amateur oceanographer -- or, he taught a robot to be one for him. In a charming talk Lang, a TED Fellow,… Internet Archive Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table 2012 · Talk · 6 min Onstage at TED2012, Jack Choi demonstrates a powerful tool for training medical students: a stretcher-sized multi-touch screen of the human body that lets you… Internet Archive Meron Gribetz: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset 2016 · Talk · 10 min What if technology could connect us more deeply with our surroundings instead of distracting us from the real world? With the Meta 2, an augmented reality… Internet Archive Lisa Nip: How humans could evolve to survive in space 2016 · Talk · 12 min If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using… Internet Archive David Perry: Are games better than life? 2008 · Talk · 21 min Game designer David Perry says tomorrow's videogames will be more than mere fun to the next generation of gamers. They'll be lush, complex, emotional… Internet Archive Garry Kasparov: Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them 2017 · Talk · 15 min We must face our fears if we want to get the most out of technology — and we must conquer those fears if we want to get the best out of humanity, says Garry… Internet Archive Jon Ronson: What happens when online shaming spirals out of control 2015 · Talk · 17 min For the longest time Jon Ronson reveled in the fact that Twitter gave a voice to the voiceless ... the social media platform gave us all a chance to speak up… Internet Archive Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers 2016 · Talk · 11 min Computer code is the next universal language, and its syntax will be limited only by the imaginations of the next generation of programmers. Linda Liukas is… Internet Archive Martin Rees asks: Is this our final century? 2007 · Talk · 17 min Speaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspective. He… Internet Archive Wael Ghonim: Let's design social media that drives real change 2016 · Talk · 13 min Wael Ghonim helped touch off the Arab Spring in his home of Egypt ... by setting up a simple Facebook page. As he reveals, once the revolution spilled onto… Internet Archive Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials 2013 · Talk · 9 min Ink that conducts electricity; a window that turns from clear to opaque at the flip of a switch; a jelly that makes music. All this stuff exists, and Catarina… Internet Archive T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas 2012 · Talk · 19 min The US consumes 25% of the world's oil -- but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out onstage, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the… Internet Archive Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot 2010 · Talk · 16 min At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all… Internet Archive Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together 2009 · Talk · 21 min Mae Jemison is an astronaut, a doctor, an art collector, a dancer ... Telling stories from her own education and from her time in space, she calls on… Internet Archive Shohini Ghose: Quantum computing explained in 10 minutes 2018 · Talk A quantum computer isn't just a more powerful version of the computers we use today; it's something else entirely, based on emerging scientific understanding… Internet Archive Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road 2015 · Talk · 15 min Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove… Internet Archive Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot 2011 · Talk · 5 min Onstage at TEDGlobal, Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by a group of engineering students, Rezero is… Internet Archive Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset 2009 · Talk · 19 min Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new… Internet Archive Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking 2014 · Talk · 9 min Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the… Internet Archive Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb 2011 · Talk · 12 min What if every light bulb in the world could also transmit data? At TEDGlobal, Harald Haas demonstrates, for the first time, a device that could do exactly… Internet Archive Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering 2014 · Talk · 20 min When Bran Ferren was just 9, his parents took him to see the Pantheon in Rome — and it changed everything. In that moment, he began to understand how the… Internet Archive Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing 2007 · Talk · 20 min Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back… Internet Archive Alex Kipman: The dawn of the age of holograms 2016 · Talk · 19 min Alex Kipman wants to create a new reality — one that puts people, not devices, at the center of everything. With HoloLens, the first fully untethered… Internet Archive Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation 2010 · Talk · 18 min TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning… Internet Archive Demo: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere 2009 · Talk · 6 min JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, a new way to see, hear and interpret scientific data. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the… Internet Archive Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling 2011 · Talk · 3 min iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new… Internet Archive Rana el Kaliouby: This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face 2015 · Talk · 11 min Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives — how we learn, how we communicate, how we make decisions. Yet they’re absent from our digital lives; the…