Technology in the world's archives

1,585–1,632 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 Bell Telephone's Super-Switcher 1977 · Commercial A 1977 commercial for Bell Telephone's "super-switcher" system. Low on entertainment value, but for outdated technology education/stock footage it's potential… Internet Archive Damon Horowitz calls for a "moral operating system" 2011 · Talk · 16 min At TEDxSiliconValley, Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more -- and more about each other -- than ever before.… Internet Archive Sally Kohn: Don't like clickbait? Don't click 2014 · Talk · 4 min Doesn't it seem like a lot of online news sites have moved beyond reporting the news to openly inciting your outrage (and your page views)? News analyst Sally… Internet Archive Danielle Wood: How we can use space technology to improve life on Earth 2017 · Talk Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear down the barriers that limit the benefits of space… Internet Archive Grady Booch: Don't fear superintelligent AI 2017 · Talk · 10 min New tech spawns new anxieties, says scientist and philosopher Grady Booch, but we don't need to be afraid an all-powerful, unfeeling AI. Booch allays our… Internet Archive John Doerr sees salvation and profit in greentech 2007 · Talk · 17 min "I don't think we're going to make it," John Doerr says in an emotional talk about climate change and investment. To create a world fit for his daughter to… Internet Archive Laura Galante: How to exploit democracy 2017 · Talk · 9 min Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante… Internet Archive Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy? 2018 · Talk Tech that can decode your brain activity and reveal what you're thinking and feeling is on the horizon, says legal scholar and ethicist Nita Farahany. What… Internet Archive Paul Rothemund casts a spell with DNA 2007 · Talk · 5 min Paul Rothemund writes code that causes DNA to arrange itself into a star, a smiley face and more. Sure, it's a stunt, but it's also a demonstration of… Internet Archive Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like 2014 · Talk · 15 min We can see the power of distributed, crowd-sourced business models every day — witness Uber, Kickstarter, Airbnb. But veteran online activist Jeremy Heimans… Internet Archive Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa 2013 · Talk · 9 min Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, cofounder of the open-source software Ushahidi. But it remains challenging to… Internet Archive Sisonke Msimang: If a story moves you, act on it 2017 · Talk · 12 min Stories are necessary, but they're not as magical as they seem, says writer Sisonke Msimang. In this funny and thoughtful talk, Msimang questions our emphasis… Internet Archive Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone 2014 · Talk · 14 min What does it take to regrow bone in mass quantities? Typical bone regeneration -- wherein bone is taken from a patient’s hip and grafted onto damaged bone… Internet Archive Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems? 2013 · Talk · 10 min In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to… Internet Archive Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet 2017 · Talk · 12 min Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day… Internet Archive Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences 2011 · Talk · 16 min Every new invention changes the world -- in ways both intentional and unexpected. Historian Edward Tenner tells stories that illustrate the under-appreciated… Internet Archive George Whitesides: Toward a science of simplicity 2010 · Talk · 18 min Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer. Internet Archive Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity 2013 · Talk · 10 min Paralyzed by a stroke, Henry Evans uses a telepresence robot to take the stage -- and show how new robotics, tweaked and personalized by a group called Robots… Internet Archive Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention? 2017 · Talk · 6 min Attention isn't just about what we focus on — it's also about what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people try to focus,… Internet Archive Noriko Arai: Can a robot pass a university entrance exam? 2017 · Talk Meet Todai Robot, an AI project that performed in the top 20 percent of students on the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo — without actually… Internet Archive Daniel Kraft: Medicine's future? There's an app for that 2011 · Talk · 18 min At TEDxMaastricht, Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring… Internet Archive Gregory Heyworth: How I'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts 2016 · Talk · 12 min Gregory Heyworth is a textual scientist; he and his lab work on new ways to read ancient manuscripts and maps using spectral imaging technology. In this… Internet Archive Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think 2014 · Talk · 13 min As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world’s most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting)… Internet Archive Yochai Benkler on the new open-source economics 2008 · Talk · 17 min Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. Internet Archive Anjali Tripathi: Why Earth may someday look like Mars 2016 · Talk · 11 min Every minute, 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 7 pounds of helium escape from Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Astrophysicist Anjali Tripathi studies the… Internet Archive Joe DeRisi solves medical mysteries 2009 · Talk · 16 min Biochemist Joe DeRisi talks about amazing new ways to diagnose viruses (and treat the illnesses they cause) using DNA. His work may help us understand… Internet Archive Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future 2016 · Talk · 11 min When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems… Internet Archive Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics 2011 · Talk · 14 min All over the planet, giant telescopes and detectors are looking (and listening) for clues to the workings of the universe. At the INK Conference, science… Internet Archive AC to DC voltage rectifiers 2015 · Educational · Subtitles AC to DC voltage conversions visualized with 3D animations. Includes half wave and full wave rectifiers. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel… Internet Archive Adam Ostrow: After your final status update 2011 · Talk · 5 min Many of us have a social media presence -- a virtual personality made up of status updates, tweets and connections, stored in the cloud. Adam Ostrow asks a… Internet Archive Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps 2010 · Talk · 8 min In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft. Internet Archive Learning C Programming (Viagrafix, 1990) 1990 · Film · Subtitles ViaGrafix Video Training Series: Learning C Programming (ViaGrafix, 1990) Running Time: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes Why Video Learning? 1. Easier to Understand With… Internet Archive Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning 2011 · Talk · 12 min At TEDxPSU, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their… Internet Archive Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction 2013 · Talk · 11 min In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are changing the scene again.… Internet Archive Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea 2012 · Talk · 14 min What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to… Internet Archive Mikko Hypponen: Three types of online attack 2012 · Talk · 9 min Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. "Do we blindly… Internet Archive Larry Brilliant wants to stop pandemics 2006 · Talk · 25 min Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify… Internet Archive Sergei Lupashin: A flying camera ... on a leash 2014 · Talk · 6 min Let's admit it: aerial photo drones and UAVs are a little creepy, and they come with big regulatory and safety problems. But aerial photos can be a powerful… Internet Archive Amy Green: A video game to cope with grief 2017 · Talk · 10 min When Amy Green's young son was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, she made up a bedtime story for his siblings to teach them about cancer. What resulted was a… Internet Archive Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government 2012 · Talk · 12 min Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and… Internet Archive Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth 2017 · Talk · 14 min The more we read and watch online, the harder it becomes to tell the difference between what's real and what's fake. It's as if we know more but understand… Internet Archive Tom Griffiths: 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer 2017 · Talk If you ever struggle to make decisions, here's a talk for you. Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths shows how we can apply the logic of computers to untangle… Internet Archive NASA KSNN - Nanotechnology Film NASA Kids Science News segment explaining what nanotechnology does. Internet Archive Matt Beane: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? 2018 · Talk The path to skill around the globe has been the same for thousands of years: train under an expert and take on small, easy tasks before progressing to… Internet Archive John Underkoffler points to the future of UI 2010 · Talk · 15 min Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace… Internet Archive Ory Okolloh on becoming an activist 2008 · Talk · 16 min Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family -- and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament. Internet Archive Rives controls the Internet 2006 · Talk · 4 min How many poets could cram eBay, Friendster and Monster.com into 3-minute poem worthy of a standing ovation? Enjoy Rives' unique talent. Internet Archive Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution 2017 · Talk · 14 min Meet the "Row-bot," a robot that cleans up pollution and generates the electricity needed to power itself by swallowing dirty water. Roboticist Jonathan…