Technology in the world's archives

1,441–1,488 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 Breakthrough - The Ideas That Changed the World ★ Complete PBS Series with MKV and Subtitles 2019 · Talk Breakthrough - The Ideas That Changed the World ★ Complete PBS Series with MKV and Subtitles Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World - hosted by… Internet Archive Hod Lipson builds "self-aware" robots 2007 · Talk · 6 min Hod Lipson demonstrates a few of his cool little robots, which have the ability to learn, understand themselves and even self-replicate. Internet Archive Kristin Poinar: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? 2017 · Talk The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious — and melting. Using advanced technology, scientists are revealing its secrets for the first time, and what… Internet Archive Paula Hammond: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer 2016 · Talk · 10 min Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With… Internet Archive Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously 2011 · Talk · 9 min Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes… Internet Archive Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome 2010 · Talk · 19 min Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our "connectome," and… Internet Archive Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future 2009 · Talk · 7 min As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But,… Internet Archive Joy Buolamwini: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms 2017 · Talk · 8 min MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial recognition software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't recognize her face — because the… Internet Archive Marvin Minsky on health and the human mind 2008 · Talk · 13 min Listen closely -- Marvin Minsky's arch, eclectic, charmingly offhand talk on health, overpopulation and the human mind is packed with subtlety: wit, wisdom… Internet Archive Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market 2013 · Talk · 12 min Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours -- but it's difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is… Internet Archive James Nachtwey fights XDR-TB 2008 · Talk · 5 min Photojournalist James Nachtwey sees his TED Prize wish come true, as we share his powerful photographs of XDR-TB, a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis… Internet Archive David Keith's unusual climate change idea 2007 · Talk · 15 min Environmental scientist David Keith proposes a cheap, effective, shocking means to address climate change: What if we injected a huge cloud of ash into the… Internet Archive Paul MacCready on nature vs. humans 2008 · Talk · 22 min In 1998, aircraft designer Paul MacCready looks at a planet on which humans have utterly dominated nature, and talks about what we all can do to preserve… Internet Archive Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet 2018 · Talk In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge — but… Internet Archive Stuart Russell: 3 principles for creating safer AI 2017 · Talk · 17 min How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing… Internet Archive Helen Fisher: Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why 2016 · Talk · 19 min In our tech-driven, interconnected world, we've developed new ways and rules to court each other, but the fundamental principles of love have stayed the same,… Internet Archive Kevin Kelly on how technology evolves 2006 · Talk · 19 min Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks "What does technology want?" and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life. Internet Archive Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift 2010 · Talk · 19 min Natalie Jeremijenko's unusual lab puts art to work, and addresses environmental woes by combining engineering know-how with public art and a team of… Internet Archive Paul Gilding: The Earth is full 2012 · Talk · 16 min Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating… Internet Archive Tomás Saraceno: Would you live in a floating city in the sky? 2017 · Talk In a mind-bending talk that blurs the line between science and art, Tomás Saraceno exhibits a series of air-inspired sculptures and installations designed to… Internet Archive Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web 2011 · Talk · 5 min Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the… Internet Archive " THE CASE FOR COMPUTERS " 1980s IBM SYSTEM/36 PERSONAL COMPUTER BILLING SYSTEM XD13154 Film The Case for Computers, produced in 1984, is a film about IBM Information System for Attorneys, its System/36 hardware and software and how it is changing the… Internet Archive Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy 2016 · Talk · 14 min Say hello to the decentralized economy — the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology,… Internet Archive Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant 2011 · Talk · 18 min You'll never sing again, said her doctor. But in a story from the very edge of medical possibility, operatic soprano Charity Tillemann-Dick tells a double… Internet Archive Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer 2009 · Talk · 14 min Henry Markram says the mysteries of the mind can be solved -- soon. Mental illness, memory, perception: they're made of neurons and electric signals, and he… Internet Archive Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper 2013 · Talk · 11 min "I love paper, and I love technology," says physicist and former sheep herder Kate Stone, who's spent the past decade working to unite the two. Her… Internet Archive CBC Witness | The End of Television 1995 · TV Broadcasted on CBC, 1995 Internet Archive Brewster Kahle builds a free digital library 2008 · Talk · 20 min Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all… Internet Archive Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz 2011 · Talk · 6 min Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates "beatjazz" -- his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the… Internet Archive Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering 2010 · Talk · 8 min "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are… Internet Archive Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win 2015 · Talk · 16 min Today the speed at which we spread information is so fast that a single email can launch a worldwide awareness campaign, as with the Occupy movement. Yet as… Internet Archive Battery Energy and Power 2015 · Educational · Subtitles Batteries in parallel and in series. 3D visualization of energy, voltage, and the flow of electric current in a circuit. I originally made this video for my… Internet Archive Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers 2011 · Talk · 9 min Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's… Internet Archive 65044“ MICROCOMPUTERS – AN INTRODUCTION ” CAMPY 1982 ANIMATED CARTOON ABOUT PERSONAL COMPUTERS Cartoon This 1982 animated education film was produced by March Brothers Inc. It shows a girl on a farm teaching a boy about the components of a microcomputer — what… Internet Archive David Sengeh: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs 2014 · Talk · 4 min What drove David Sengeh to create a more comfortable prosthetic limb? He grew up in Sierra Leone, and too many of the people he loves are missing limbs after… Internet Archive Nandan Nilekani's ideas for India's future 2009 · Talk · 15 min Nandan Nilekani, the visionary co-founder of outsourcing pioneer Infosys, explains four brands of ideas that will determine whether India can continue its… Internet Archive NASA KSNN - E-Mail 2004 · Film NASA Kids Science News segment explaining how email works. Internet Archive Introduction to the Internet 1994 · Educational · Subtitles Introduction to the Internet (95021)(Diamond Entertainment Corporation)(1994) dumped: 2017-02-04 title: GEnie Online Services v1.2 for Windows 3.1 (GE… Internet Archive The Time Machine (1978 Time Travel Sci Fi) 1978 · Feature · 1 h 36 min PLOT : A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained… Internet Archive MIT 3.A26 Freshman Seminar: The Nature of Engineering Talk · 7 min Are you interested in investigating how nature engineers itself? How engineers copy the shapes found in nature ("biomimetics")? This Freshman Seminar… Internet Archive Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine 2015 · Talk · 10 min Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind… Internet Archive Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world 2010 · Talk · 17 min Some 80 to 90 percent of undersea creatures make light -- and we know very little about how or why. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder explores this glowing,… Internet Archive George Smoot on the design of the universe 2008 · Talk · 18 min At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep-space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos -- with its giant… Internet Archive Rory Sutherland: Sweat the small stuff 2010 · Talk · 12 min It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers.… Internet Archive Jeff Han demos his breakthrough touchscreen 2006 · Talk · 8 min Jeff Han shows off a cheap, scalable multi-touch and pressure-sensitive computer screen interface that may spell the end of point-and-click. Internet Archive Theo Jansen creates new creatures 2007 · Talk · 8 min Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are designed to… Internet Archive Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future 2009 · Talk · 19 min Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses mathematical analysis to predict (very often correctly) such messy human events as war, political power shifts, Intifada ...… Internet Archive Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR 2016 · Talk · 9 min Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR…