Technology in the world's archives

1,489–1,536 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 Fei-Fei Li: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures 2015 · Talk · 18 min When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too.… Internet Archive Neha Narula: The future of money 2016 · Talk · 16 min What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical… Internet Archive Home Movie: Liddle Collection: 005302 Home movie Exteriors of a Sierra Madre estate, belonging to a Catholic priest, circa 1926, and Los Angeles basin scenes. Notable scenes of a domestic worker caring for… Internet Archive Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge 2010 · Talk · 18 min MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't.… Internet Archive Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home 2016 · Talk · 9 min What if doctors could monitor patients at home with the same degree of accuracy they'd get during a stay at the hospital? Bioelectronics innovator Todd… Internet Archive Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials 2018 · Talk What would it take to reimagine the limits of architecture? Débora Mesa Molina offers some answers in this breathtaking, visual tour of her work, showing how… Internet Archive Trevor Timm: How free is our freedom of the press? 2016 · Talk · 5 min In the US, the press has a right to publish secret information the public needs to know, protected by the First Amendment. Government surveillance has made it… Internet Archive Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls) 2018 · Talk At MIT, Dina Katabi and her team are working on a bold new way to monitor patients' vital signs in a hospital (or even at home), without wearables or bulky,… Internet Archive Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution 2016 · Talk · 13 min "The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable," says digital visionary Kevin Kelly — and… Internet Archive Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties 2015 · Talk · 18 min Subtle motion happens around us all the time, including tiny vibrations caused by sound. New technology shows that we can pick up on these vibrations and… Internet Archive Janine Benyus shares nature's designs 2007 · Talk · 23 min In this inspiring talk about recent developments in biomimicry, Janine Benyus provides heartening examples of ways in which nature is already influencing the… Internet Archive Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities 2011 · Talk · 10 min How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need -- while… Internet Archive Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed 2015 · Talk · 6 min Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from… Internet Archive Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue 2016 · Talk · 7 min The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow… Internet Archive Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business 2016 · Talk · 18 min What is the blockchain? If you don't know, you should; if you do, chances are you still need some clarification on how it actually works. Don Tapscott is here… Internet Archive Eythor Bender demos human exoskeletons 2011 · Talk · 6 min Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200… Internet Archive Adam Savage's obsessions 2009 · Talk · 15 min At EG'08, Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining… Internet Archive Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion 2011 · Talk · 16 min Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and… Internet Archive Daniel Kraft: The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home 2018 · Talk We need to change how we prescribe drugs, says physician Daniel Kraft: too often, medications are dosed incorrectly, cause toxic side effects or just don't… Internet Archive Edward Burtynsky photographs the landscape of oil 2009 · Talk · 3 min In stunning large-format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine -- and then… Internet Archive Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry 2017 · Talk · 8 min Something is very wrong with the news industry. Trust in the media has hit an all-time low; we're inundated with sensationalist stories, and consistent,… Internet Archive Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions 2010 · Talk · 11 min Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10… Internet Archive Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes 2011 · Talk · 6 min Designer Suzanne Lee shares her experiments in growing a kombucha-based material that can be used like fabric or vegetable leather to make clothing. The… Internet Archive Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust -- time to act 2013 · Talk · 19 min Recent events have highlighted, underlined and bolded the fact that the United States is performing blanket surveillance on any foreigner whose data passes… Internet Archive Angela Wang: How China is changing the future of shopping 2017 · Talk China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million… Internet Archive AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits 2011 · Talk · 4 min In a zippy demo at TED U, AnnMarie Thomas shows how two different kinds of homemade play dough can be used to demonstrate electrical properties -- by lighting… Internet Archive Graham Hawkes flies through the ocean 2008 · Talk · 12 min Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. "Earth"). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see… Internet Archive Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist" 2014 · Talk · 12 min “Remember before the internet?” asks Joi Ito. “Remember when people used to try to predict the future?” In this engaging talk, the head of the MIT Media Lab… Internet Archive Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here 2016 · Talk · 12 min Economic growth has been slowing for the past 50 years, but relief might come from an unexpected place — a new form of manufacturing that is neither what you… Internet Archive Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives 2011 · Talk · 16 min What controls aging? Biochemist Cynthia Kenyon has found a simple genetic mutation that can double the lifespan of a simple worm, C. elegans. The lessons from… Internet Archive Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave 2011 · Talk · 16 min When Dave deBronkart learned he had a rare and terminal cancer, he turned to a group of fellow patients online -- and found the medical treatment that saved… Internet Archive Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future 2014 · Talk · 19 min MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and… Internet Archive Anna Heringer: The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings 2017 · Talk "There are a lot of resources given by nature for free — all we need is our sensitivity to see them and our creativity to use them," says architect Anna… Internet Archive John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! 2013 · Talk · 13 min Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting — linguistically, culturally — than it seems, and… Internet Archive Steve Jurvetson on model rocketry 2008 · Talk · 3 min Moneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby -- launching model rockets –- by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious glee and just a… Internet Archive Stephen Petranek counts down to Armageddon 2007 · Talk · 29 min How might the world end? Stephen Petranek lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid?… Internet Archive Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data 2011 · Talk · 16 min Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At… Internet Archive Resistors - Ohm's Law is not a real law 2015 · Educational · Subtitles Ohm's Law and Resistors. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky I uploaded it to Internet… Internet Archive Charles Leadbeater on innovation 2007 · Talk · 18 min In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using… Internet Archive Frederic Kaplan: How I built an information time machine 2014 · Talk · 10 min Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, researcher and… Internet Archive Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life 2009 · Talk · 15 min Garik Israelian is a spectroscopist, studying the spectrum emitted by a star to figure out what it's made of and how it might behave. It's a rare and… Internet Archive Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets 2014 · Talk · 6 min Astronomers believe that every star in the galaxy has a planet, one fifth of which might harbor life. Only we haven't seen any of them -- yet. Jeremy Kasdin… Internet Archive Yves Behar's supercharged motorcycle design 2009 · Talk · 2 min Yves Behar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how… Internet Archive Eric Dishman: Take health care off the mainframe 2010 · Talk · 16 min At TEDMED, Eric Dishman makes a bold argument: The US health care system is like computing circa 1959, tethered to big, unwieldy central systems: hospitals,… Internet Archive Raghava KK: What’s your 200-year plan? 2012 · Talk · 10 min You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it… Internet Archive Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines 2010 · Talk · 12 min At TEDxRotterdam, Bart Weetjens talks about his extraordinary project: training rats to sniff out land mines. He shows clips of his "hero rats" in action, and… Internet Archive Jennifer Wilcox: A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere 2018 · Talk Our planet has a carbon problem — if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we'll grow hotter, faster. Chemical engineer Jennifer Wilcox… Internet Archive Tristan Harris: How better tech could protect us from distraction 2016 · Talk · 15 min How often does technology interrupt us from what we really mean to be doing? At work and at play, we spend a startling amount of time distracted by pings and…