Technology in the world's archives

1,681–1,728 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 Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic 2008 · Talk · 3 min Biochemist Gregory Petsko makes a convincing argument that, in the next 50 years, we'll see an epidemic of neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer's, as the… Internet Archive Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist 2011 · Talk · 7 min The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. In a remarkable talk at TEDActive,… Internet Archive Anand Agarawala demos BumpTop 2007 · Talk · 4 min Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a… Internet Archive Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens 2014 · Talk · 9 min Hacking is about more than mischief-making or political subversion. As Catherine Bracy describes in this spirited talk, it can be just as much a force for… Internet Archive Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) 2014 · Talk · 13 min Facebook’s “like” and “share” buttons are seen 22 billion times a day, making them some of the most-viewed design elements ever created. Margaret Gould… Internet Archive Paul Conneally: Digital humanitarianism 2012 · Talk · 10 min The disastrous earthquake in Haiti taught humanitarian groups an unexpected lesson: the power of mobile devices to coordinate, inform, and guide relief… Internet Archive Robin Chase on Zipcar and her next big idea 2008 · Talk · 13 min Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating… Internet Archive Russ Altman: What really happens when you mix medications? 2016 · Talk · 14 min If you take two different medications for two different reasons, here's a sobering thought: your doctor may not fully understand what happens when they're… Internet Archive Talking Turtle 1984 · Film · Subtitles Presents children learning through LOGO -- a computer language designed for easy learning -- and turtles -- small robots controlled by computers -- both… Internet Archive Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data 2015 · Talk · 11 min City agencies have access to a wealth of data and statistics reflecting every part of urban life. But as data analyst Ben Wellington suggests in this… Internet Archive Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley: Mapping ideas worth spreading 2013 · Talk · 7 min What do 24,000 ideas look like? Ecologist Eric Berlow and physicist Sean Gourley apply algorithms to the entire archive of TEDxTalks, taking us on a… Internet Archive Gary Wolf: The quantified self 2010 · Talk · 5 min At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet,… Internet Archive Golan Levin on software (as) art 2004 · Talk · 14 min Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he… Internet Archive Haley Van Dyck: This tech team is saving government millions of dollars a year 2016 · Talk · 15 min Haley Van Dyck is transforming the way America delivers critical services to everyday people. The co-founder of the United States Digital Service, Van Dyck… Internet Archive Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world 2010 · Talk · 20 min Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to… Internet Archive Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement 2010 · Talk · 6 min Arthritis and injury grind down millions of joints, but few get the best remedy -- real biological tissue. Kevin Stone shows a treatment that could sidestep… Internet Archive Michael Bodekaer: This virtual lab will revolutionize science class 2016 · Talk · 11 min Virtual reality is no longer part of some distant future, and it's not just for gaming and entertainment anymore. Michael Bodekaer wants to use it to make… Internet Archive Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life 2018 · Talk Meet AIVA, an artificial intelligence that has been trained in the art of music composition by reading more than 30,000 of history's greatest scores. In a… Internet Archive Stewart Brand on the Long Now 2008 · Talk · 23 min Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think about the… Internet Archive Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class 2009 · Talk · 17 min India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs… Internet Archive Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface 2018 · Talk What if you could search the surface of the Earth the same way you search the internet? Will Marshall and his team at Planet use the world's largest fleet of… Internet Archive Amar Inamdar: The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy 2017 · Talk There's an energy revolution happening in villages and towns across Africa — off-grid solar energy is becoming a viable alternative to traditional electricity… Internet Archive George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp 2010 · Talk · 16 min Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides' ingenious answer, at… Internet Archive Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era 2014 · Talk · 13 min Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside… Internet Archive David Camarillo: Why helmets don't prevent concussions -- and what might 2016 · Talk · 15 min What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David… Internet Archive Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies 2010 · Talk · 2 min As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of unused lands and… Internet Archive Molly Winter: The taboo secret to healthier plants and people 2016 · Talk · 12 min Our poop and pee have superpowers, but for the most part we don't harness them. Molly Winter faces down our squeamishness and asks us to see what goes down… Internet Archive Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots 2014 · Talk · 5 min How can robots learn to stabilize on rough terrain, walk upside down, do gymnastic maneuvers in air and run into walls without harming themselves? Robert Full… Internet Archive Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world 2015 · Talk · 9 min How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa,… Internet Archive Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked 2013 · Talk · 14 min A spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new… Internet Archive Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media 2018 · Talk History is written by the victors, as the saying goes — but what would it look like if it was written by everyone? Journalist and TED Fellow Mikhail Zygar is… Internet Archive David Cage: How video games turn players into storytellers 2018 · Talk Have you ever watched a film or read a novel, wishing that you could change the narrative to save your favorite character? Game designer David Cage allows you… Internet Archive Miraculous Machines 1985 · Educational · 58 min Internet Archive Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology 2017 · Talk · 7 min What if you could take a smell selfie, a smelfie? What if you had a lipstick that caused plants to grow where you kiss? Ani Liu explores the intersection of… Internet Archive Dylan Marron: How I turn negative online comments into positive offline conversations 2018 · Talk Digital creator Dylan Marron has racked up millions of views for projects like "Every Single Word" and "Sitting in Bathrooms With Trans People" — but he's… Internet Archive Joseph Redmon: How computers learn to recognize objects instantly 2017 · Talk Ten years ago, researchers thought that getting a computer to tell the difference between a cat and a dog would be almost impossible. Today, computer vision… Internet Archive Nick Sears demos the Orb 2008 · Talk · 3 min Inventor Nick Sears demos the first generation of the Orb, a rotating persistence-of-vision display that creates glowing 3D images. A short, cool tale of… Internet Archive David Bismark: E-voting without fraud 2010 · Talk · 8 min David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret. Internet Archive Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons 2017 · Talk · 14 min Today nine nations collectively control more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, each hundreds of times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.… Internet Archive Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd? 2014 · Talk · 17 min Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to… Internet Archive Rodin Lyasoff: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel 2018 · Talk Flight is about to get a lot more personal, says aviation entrepreneur Rodin Lyasoff. In this visionary talk, he imagines a new golden age of air travel in… Internet Archive Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives 2017 · Talk How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make "humanistic AI" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing… Internet Archive Oscar Schwartz: Can a computer write poetry? 2016 · Talk · 11 min If you read a poem and feel moved by it, but then find out it was actually written by a computer, would you feel differently about the experience? Would you… Internet Archive Welcome To Cyberia 1998 · Film Focuses on the newly created counter-culture of the 1990s, rave culture, house music and hacking, where forbidden thought and radical action is opened up to a… Internet Archive Caleb Barlow: Where is cybercrime really coming from? 2017 · Talk · 14 min Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the… Internet Archive Ian Firth: Bridges should be beautiful 2018 · Talk Bridges need to be functional, safe and durable, but they should also be elegant and beautiful, says structural engineer Ian Firth. In this mesmerizing tour… Internet Archive Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other 2012 · Talk · 6 min The suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and… Internet Archive Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal 2016 · Talk · 15 min Architecture is more than a clever arrangement of bricks. In this eloquent talk, Michael Murphy shows how he and his team look far beyond the blueprint when…