Technology in the world's archives

1,633–1,680 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 Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone 2015 · Talk · 9 min The sounds of the rainforest include: the chirps of birds, the buzz of cicadas, the banter of gibbons. But in the background is the almost-always present… Internet Archive Wanis Kabbaj: What a driverless world could look like 2016 · Talk · 11 min What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find… Internet Archive Floyd E. Romesberg: The radical possibilities of man-made DNA 2018 · Talk Every cell that's ever lived has been the result of the four-letter genetic alphabet: A, T, C and G — the basic units of DNA. But now that's changed. In a… Internet Archive Scott Kim takes apart the art of puzzles 2009 · Talk · 11 min At the 2008 EG conference, famed puzzle designer Scott Kim takes us inside the puzzle-maker's frame of mind. Sampling his career's work, he introduces a few… Internet Archive Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web 2014 · Talk · 6 min Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 25 years ago. So it’s worth a listen when he warns us: There’s a battle ahead. Eroding net neutrality, filter… Internet Archive Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration 2008 · Talk · 20 min In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and… Internet Archive Geoff Mulgan: Post-crash, investing in a better world 2009 · Talk · 17 min As we reboot the world's economy, Geoff Mulgan poses a question: Instead of sending bailout money to doomed old industries, why not use stimulus funds to… Internet Archive Jan Chipchase on our mobile phones 2007 · Talk · 16 min Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase's investigation into the ways we interact with technology has led him from the villages of Uganda to the insides of our… Internet Archive Marco Tempest: Maybe the best robot demo ever 2014 · Talk · 6 min Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to work very closely with humans. Less a magic trick than an intricately… Internet Archive Raymond Wang: How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them 2015 · Talk · 6 min Raymond Wang is only 17 years old, but he's already helping to build a healthier future. Using fluid dynamics, he created computational simulations of how air… Internet Archive The Internet For Beginners (1998) 1998 · Film · Subtitles An instructional video for beginners about using the Internet in the late 1990s. Experience the magic of the early days of internet access in this tape.… Internet Archive Andreas Ekström: The moral bias behind your search results 2015 · Talk · 9 min Search engines have become our most trusted sources of information and arbiters of truth. But can we ever get an unbiased search result? Swedish author and… Internet Archive Harald Haas: Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet 2015 · Talk · 7 min What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't… Internet Archive Margaret Gould Stewart: How the hyperlink changed everything 2018 · Talk The hyperlink is the LEGO block of the internet. Here's the bizarre history of how it came to be, as told by user experience master Margaret Gould Stewart. Internet Archive Simon Lewis: Don't take consciousness for granted 2011 · Talk · 22 min After a catastrophic car accident that left him in a coma, Simon Lewis found ways to recover -- physically and mentally -- beyond all expectations. At the INK… Internet Archive Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that "feels" 2011 · Talk · 18 min Physiatrist and engineer Todd Kuiken is building a prosthetic arm that connects with the human nervous system -- improving motion, control and even feeling.… Internet Archive Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history 2016 · Talk · 13 min Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm… Internet Archive Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing 2015 · Talk · 16 min As human beings, we get used to "the way things are" really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity ... Could things be better? How? In… Internet Archive Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers 2016 · Talk · 17 min Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today… Internet Archive Raghava KK: Shake up your story 2011 · Talk · 4 min Artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun feature: when you shake it, the story -- and your perspective -- changes. In this charming… Internet Archive Alex Steffen sees a sustainable future 2007 · Talk · 17 min Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads… Internet Archive Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip 2010 · Talk · 4 min Drugs alone can't stop disease in sub-Saharan Africa: We need diagnostic tools to match. TED Senior Fellow Frederick Balagadde shows how we can multiply the… Internet Archive Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human 2009 · Talk · 17 min In this prophetic 2003 talk -- just days before Dolly the sheep was stuffed -- biotech ethicist Gregory Stock looked forward to new, more meaningful (and… Internet Archive Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods 2012 · Talk · 14 min Call it fuel without fossils: Jonathan Trent is working on a plan to grow new biofuel by farming micro-algae in floating offshore pods that eat wastewater… Internet Archive Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster 2015 · Talk · 9 min When disaster strikes, who's first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through… Internet Archive Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs! 2010 · Talk · 15 min At TEDxTelAviv, Shimon Steinberg looks at the difference between pests and bugs -- and makes the case for using good bugs to fight bad bugs, avoiding… Internet Archive Resolution on Saturn 1982 · Film · Subtitles An examination of Saturn and its ring system using information obtained from the 1977 and 1980 Voyager space probes. Details hypotheses on the physics of the… Internet Archive Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes 2018 · Talk What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation… Internet Archive Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution? 2011 · Talk · 17 min Medical ethicist Harvey Fineberg shows us three paths forward for the ever-evolving human species: to stop evolving completely, to evolve naturally -- or to… Internet Archive Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue 2018 · Talk What if we could harness the sticking powers of sea creatures like mussels, oysters and barnacles, which refuse to budge even on wet, stormy coastlines? Dive… Internet Archive Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster? 2015 · Talk · 10 min What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new… Internet Archive Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit 2017 · Talk · 7 min We've all dreamed of flying — but for Richard Browning, flight is an obsession. He's built an Iron Man-like suit that leans on an elegant collaboration of… Internet Archive Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague 2018 · Talk Imagine your company hires a new employee and then everyone just ignores them, day in and day out, while they sit alone at their desk getting paid to do… Internet Archive Nathan Myhrvold: Could this laser zap malaria? 2010 · Talk · 15 min Nathan Myhrvold and team's latest inventions -- as brilliant as they are bold -- remind us that the world needs wild creativity to tackle big problems like… Internet Archive Real vs Reactive Power 2021 · Educational · Subtitles Explanation of the difference between Real Power, Apparent Power, and Reactive Power. I originally made this video for my YouTube channel at… Internet Archive " RECOVER REMOTE CONTINUAL VERIFICATION " 1983 NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL REGIME FILM / SAFEGUARDS 71972 Film Created in the 1980s by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, this rarely-seen technical film profiles the International Atomic Energy Agency and its… Internet Archive Anant Agarwal: Why massively open online courses (still) matter 2014 · Talk · 15 min 2013 was a year of hype for MOOCs (massively open online courses). Great big numbers and great big hopes were followed by some disappointing first results.… Internet Archive Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future 2014 · Talk · 17 min Ge Wang makes computer music, but it isn’t all about coded bleeps and blips. With the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, he creates new instruments out of unexpected… Internet Archive Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars? 2017 · Talk · 13 min Nagin Cox is a first-generation Martian. As a spacecraft engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cox works on the team that manages the United States'… Internet Archive " CIVIL ENGINEERS OF THE NAVY " U.S. NAVY CIVIL ENGINEER CORPS CONSTRUCTION BATTALIONS SEABEES 74412 Film "Civil Engineers of the Navy" dates to 1959 and was made by Milner Productions. This U.S. Navy recruiting film shows the activities of the U.S. Civil Engineer… Internet Archive Finn Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy 2018 · Talk Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them… Internet Archive Rives: Reinventing the encyclopedia game 2012 · Talk · 10 min Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Speaking at the TEDxSummit… Internet Archive Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you 2009 · Talk · 15 min Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as… Internet Archive R. Luke DuBois: Insightful human portraits made from data 2016 · Talk · 12 min Artist R. Luke DuBois makes unique portraits of presidents, cities, himself and even Britney Spears using data and personality. In this talk, he shares nine… Internet Archive Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives 2008 · Talk · 18 min In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives -- starting with toys and moving… Internet Archive Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read 2013 · Talk · 15 min Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he is able to read -- and celebrates the progression… Internet Archive Hugh Herr: How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential 2018 · Talk Humans will soon have new bodies that forever blur the line between the natural and synthetic worlds, says bionics designer Hugh Herr. In an unforgettable… Internet Archive David Pogue on the music wars 2008 · Talk · 4 min New York Times tech columnist David Pogue performs a satirical mini-medley about iTunes and the downloading wars, borrowing a few notes from Sonny and Cher…