Technology in the world's archives

1,537–1,584 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 18 Ways to Make a Baby 2001 · Film · Subtitles In-depth look at the scientific breakthroughs in reproductive science, their impact on human lives, and the doctors and biologists on the leading edge. 1… Internet Archive James Bridle: The nightmare videos of children's YouTube -- and what's wrong with the internet today 2018 · Talk Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in… Internet Archive PROPERTY TAXATION 1940s EDUCATIONAL FILM TAXES, BONDS, INTEREST RATES & TAX ASSESSMENT 90614 Educational This black and white 1940’s educational classroom short by Encyclopedia Britannica films provides an introduction to the concept of property taxes and how… Internet Archive Jonathan Harris collects stories 2008 · Talk · 20 min At the EG conference in December 2007, artist Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and… Internet Archive Hannah Bürckstümmer: A printable, flexible, organic solar cell 2017 · Talk Unlike the solar cells you're used to seeing, organic photovoltaics are made of compounds that are dissolved in ink and can be printed and molded using simple… Internet Archive Rajiv Maheswaran: The math behind basketball's wildest moves 2015 · Talk · 12 min Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing… Internet Archive William McDonough on cradle to cradle design 2007 · Talk · 20 min Green-minded architect and designer William McDonough asks what our buildings and products would look like if designers took into account "all children, all… Internet Archive “ AN ANSWER FOR LINDA ” 1950s BELL TELEPHONE & SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR EDUCATIONAL FILM XD6616 Educational This 1950s color training film written and produced by David Bowen and Charles Palmer for Bell System by Jerry Fairbanks' Parthenon Pictures, follows a… Internet Archive Aubrey de Grey says we can avoid aging 2006 · Talk · 22 min Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which… Internet Archive Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth 2013 · Talk · 12 min The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be… Internet Archive Amy Smith shares simple, lifesaving design 2006 · Talk · 15 min Fumes from indoor cooking fires kill more than 2 million children a year in the developing world. MIT engineer Amy Smith details an exciting but simple… Internet Archive Dao Nguyen: What makes something go viral? 2017 · Talk What's the secret to making content people love? Join BuzzFeed's Publisher Dao Nguyen for a glimpse at how her team creates their tempting quizzes, lists and… Internet Archive Sherwin Nuland on electroshock therapy 2007 · Talk · 22 min Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own.… Internet Archive Tabetha Boyajian: The most mysterious star in the universe 2016 · Talk · 13 min Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure… Internet Archive Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video 2010 · Talk · 11 min The band "OK Go" dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it.… Internet Archive Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face 2017 · Talk Behold the microscopic jungle in and around you: tiny organisms living on your cheeks, under your sofa and in the soil in your backyard. We have an… Internet Archive Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing 2014 · Talk · 9 min Just like his beloved grandfather, Avi Reichental is a maker of things. The difference is, now he can use 3D printers to make almost anything, out of almost… Internet Archive Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines 2013 · Talk · 11 min As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson —… Internet Archive Rupal Patel: Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints 2014 · Talk · 11 min Many of those with severe speech disorders use a computerized device to communicate. Yet they choose between only a few voice options. That's why Stephen… Internet Archive Christopher Soghoian: A brief history of phone wiretapping -- and how to avoid it 2015 · Talk · 6 min Who is listening in on your phone calls? On a landline, it could be anyone, says privacy activist Christopher Soghoian, because surveillance backdoors are… Internet Archive Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers 2016 · Talk · 7 min TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever… Internet Archive Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web 2008 · Talk · 19 min At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old. Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict… Internet Archive Raphael Arar: How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions 2017 · Talk How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by making art. He shares interactive projects that help AI… Internet Archive Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't 2016 · Talk · 4 min Machine learning isn't just for simple tasks like assessing credit risk and sorting mail anymore — today, it's capable of far more complex applications, like… Internet Archive Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality 2015 · Talk · 21 min The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug… Internet Archive Stewart Brand on squatter cities 2007 · Talk · 3 min Rural villages worldwide are being deserted, as billions of people flock to cities to live in teeming squatter camps and slums. Stewart Brand says this is a… Internet Archive Tierney Thys swims with the giant sunfish 2007 · Talk · 16 min Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish and… Internet Archive Yasmin Green: How technology can fight extremism and online harassment 2018 · Talk Can technology make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship and persecution? In this illuminating talk, technologist Yasmin Green details… Internet Archive Juan Enriquez shares mindboggling science 2009 · Talk · 18 min Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don't look for it on your ballot -- or in the stock exchange. It'll come from… Internet Archive Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption 2010 · Talk · 16 min At TEDxSydney, Rachel Botsman says we're "wired to share" -- and shows how websites like Zipcar and Swaptree are changing the rules of human behavior. Internet Archive Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds 2011 · Talk · 15 min With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we… Internet Archive Tim Kruger: Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air? 2017 · Talk Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate… Internet Archive Evan Williams on listening to Twitter users 2009 · Talk · 7 min In the year leading up to this talk, the web tool Twitter exploded in size (up 10x during 2008 alone). Co-founder Evan Williams reveals that many of the ideas… Internet Archive Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn 2014 · Talk · 19 min What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep… Internet Archive Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language 2014 · Talk · 15 min While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in… Internet Archive Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame 2007 · Talk · 19 min In this energizing talk, Amory Lovins lays out his simple plan for weaning the US off oil and revitalizing the economy. Internet Archive Andrew Connolly: What's the next window into our universe? 2014 · Talk · 17 min Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. In an informative talk, astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our… Internet Archive Angel Hsu: How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change 2018 · Talk China is the world's biggest polluter — and now one of its largest producers of clean energy. Which way will China go in the future, and how will it affect… Internet Archive Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator 2013 · Talk · 14 min Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector -- the “real revolutionaries” -- innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere,… Internet Archive Siegfried Woldhek shows how he found the true face of Leonardo 2008 · Talk · 4 min Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some… Internet Archive Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it 2016 · Talk · 9 min What will the world look like when we move beyond the keyboard and mouse? Interaction designer Sean Follmer is building a future with machines that bring… Internet Archive Simona Francese: Your fingerprints reveal more than you think 2018 · Talk Our fingerprints are what make us unique — but they're also home to a world of information hidden in molecules that reveal our actions, lifestyles and… Internet Archive Supasorn Suwajanakorn: Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them 2018 · Talk Do you think you're good at spotting fake videos, where famous people say things they've never said in real life? See how they're made in this astonishing… Internet Archive Charles C. Mann: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? 2018 · Talk By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody with basic needs while also avoiding the worst impacts of… Internet Archive Greg Gage: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate 2017 · Talk Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school… Internet Archive Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution 2011 · Talk · 11 min In this accessible talk from TEDxBoston, Richard Resnick shows how cheap and fast genome sequencing is about to turn health care (and insurance, and politics)… Internet Archive Dean Kamen previews a new prosthetic arm 2007 · Talk · 5 min Inventor Dean Kamen previews the prosthetic arm he’s developing at the request of the US Department of Defense. His quiet commitment to using technology to… Internet Archive Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection? 2014 · Talk · 11 min Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple…