Technology in the world's archives

1,777–1,824 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 Jennifer Granick: How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you 2017 · Talk What's stopping the American government from recording your phone calls, reading your emails and monitoring your location? Very little, says surveillance and… Internet Archive Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil 2010 · Talk · 6 min As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new… Internet Archive Vishaan Chakrabarti: How we can design timeless cities for our collective future 2018 · Talk There's a creeping sameness in many of our newest urban buildings and streetscapes, says architect Vishaan Chakrabarti. And this physical homogeneity — the… Internet Archive USA Network November 1996 Commercial Collection 1996 · Commercial A collection of commercials that aired on USA Network on November 24, 1996 during an episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Originally recorded by… Internet Archive Tommy McCall: The simple genius of a good graphic 2018 · Talk In a talk that's part history lesson, part love letter to graphics, information designer Tommy McCall traces the centuries-long evolution of charts and… Internet Archive MITMAS.965F03 Talk This course examines the issues, principles, and challenges toward building machines that cooperate with humans and with other machines. Philosophical,… Internet Archive Gabriela González: How LIGO discovered gravitational waves -- and what might be next 2017 · Talk More than 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted gravitational waves — ripples in space-time caused by violent cosmic collisions — LIGO scientists… Internet Archive Paul Moller on the Skycar 2009 · Talk · 15 min Paul Moller talks about the future of personal air travel -- the marriage of autos and flight that will give us true freedom to travel off-road. He shows two… Internet Archive Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal 2017 · Talk Working out of her garage, Anushka Naiknaware designed a sensor that tracks wound healing, becoming the youngest winner (at age 13) of the Google Science… Internet Archive Chance Coughenour: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history 2016 · Talk Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures — your pictures — to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After… Internet Archive Juan Enriquez wants to grow energy 2007 · Talk · 18 min Juan Enriquez challenges our definition of bioenergy. Oil, coal, gas and other hydrocarbons are not chemical but biological products, based on plant matter --… Internet Archive Robin Hanson: What would happen if we upload our brains to computers? 2017 · Talk Meet the "ems" — machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin… Internet Archive Daniel Engber: How the progress bar keeps you sane 2018 · Talk The progress bar makes waiting more exciting... and mitigates our fear of death. Journalist Daniel Engber explores how it came into existence. Internet Archive Jeff Speck:4 ways to make a city more walkable 2017 · Talk · 18 min Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his "general theory of walkability" — four planning… Internet Archive Christian Benimana: The next generation of African architects and designers 2017 · Talk Christian Benimana wants to build a network of architects who can help Africa's booming cities flourish in sustainable, equitable ways — balancing growth with… Internet Archive Mathieu Lehanneur demos science-inspired design 2009 · Talk · 18 min Naming science as his chief inspiration, Mathieu Lehanneur shows a selection of his ingenious designs -- an interactive noise-neutralizing ball, an antibiotic… Internet Archive Iyad Rahwan: What moral decisions should driverless cars make? 2016 · Talk Should your driverless car kill you if it means saving five pedestrians? In this primer on the social dilemmas of driverless cars, Iyad Rahwan explores how… Internet Archive Mark Pollock and Simone George: A love letter to realism in a time of grief 2018 · Talk When faced with life's toughest circumstances, how should we respond: as an optimist, a realist or something else? In an unforgettable talk, explorer Mark… Internet Archive Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth 2016 · Talk · 10 min Our lives depend on a world we can't see: the satellite infrastructure we use every day for information, entertainment, communication and so much more. But… Internet Archive Vikram Sharma: How quantum physics can make encryption stronger 2017 · Talk As quantum computing matures, it's going to bring unimaginable increases in computational power along with it — and the systems we use to protect our data… Internet Archive Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet (1998) 1998 · Documentary Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet - a.k.a. Glory of the Geeks - is a 1998 American PBS television documentary that explores the development of the… Internet Archive Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne 2018 · Talk In this whimsical talk and live demo, scientist Li Wei Tan shares the secrets of bubbles — from their relentless pursuit of geometric perfection to their… Internet Archive Amiga Visuals 1 2000 · Feature · 1 h 30 min A collection of five sections generated on an Amiga A500+ home computer and recorded to VHS in 2000. Internet Archive Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, two years on 2008 · Talk · 16 min Nicholas Negroponte talks about how One Laptop per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the… Internet Archive Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap 2008 · Talk · 15 min Peter Diamandis says it's our moral imperative to keep exploring space -- and he talks about how, with the X Prize and other incentives, we're going to do… Internet Archive Tom Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this 2015 · Talk · 8 min Designer Tom Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the… Internet Archive James Beacham: How we explore unanswered questions in physics 2016 · Talk · 15 min James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CERN's Large Hadron… Internet Archive Tania Douglas: To design better tech, understand context 2017 · Talk What good is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment to people in Africa if it can't handle the climate there? Biomedical engineer Tania Douglas shares… Internet Archive Theo E.J. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right 2017 · Talk In an unmissable talk about race and politics in America, Theo E.J. Wilson tells the story of becoming Lucius25, white supremacist lurker, and the unexpected… Internet Archive Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time 2014 · Talk · 8 min Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs'… Internet Archive Nokia 6680 Advert 2005 · Commercial An advert for the Nokia 6680 broadcast 4th July 2005 during a transmission of Four Weddings and a Funeral. Internet Archive Voltage multiplier: Generating over 100,000 volts DC 2015 · Educational · Subtitles Easy to understand 3D animation showing how high voltage ladders create extremely high DC voltages using just diodes and capacitors. I originally made this… Internet Archive Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide (1995) 1995 · Film · Subtitles All the rips of this tape that I've seen aren't complete and don't have smooth frame-rate, so I decided to make my own proper rip. (Update 2019-09-05)… Internet Archive Dan Berkenstock: The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it ... 2014 · Talk · 9 min We're all familiar with satellite imagery, but what we might now know is that much of it is out of date. That's because satellites are big and expensive, so… Internet Archive Luhan Yang: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant 2018 · Talk For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to create a process for transplanting animal organs into humans, a theoretical dream that could help… Internet Archive Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally 2014 · Talk · 6 min The music industry has sometimes struggled to find its feet in the digital world. In this lovely talk, TED Fellow Ryan Holladay tells us why he is… Internet Archive Global Geography ★ "Lost" Elementary Geography Series 1988 · Talk Global Geography ★ "Lost" Elementary Geography Series 1988 by the Agency for Instructional Technology Global Geography consists of Ten 15-minute programs… Internet Archive Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth 2017 · Talk With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like… Internet Archive Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots 2018 · Talk We're far from developing robots that feel emotions, but we already have feelings towards them, says robot ethicist Kate Darling, and an instinct like that… Internet Archive Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease 2017 · Talk Today's AI algorithms require tens of thousands of expensive medical images to detect a patient's disease. What if we could drastically reduce the amount of… Internet Archive Basic Computer Literacy 1994 · Educational · Subtitles Basic Computer Literacy (Diamond Entertainment Corporation)(1994) VHS Dump 2010-09-27 Internet Archive Xavier De Kestelier: Adventures of an interplanetary architect 2016 · Talk How will we live elsewhere in the galaxy? On Earth, natural resources for creating structures are abundant, but sending these materials up with us to the Moon… Internet Archive Andrew Dent: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift 2017 · Talk There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent — when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks into the trash,… Internet Archive DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation 2017 · Talk In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without formal training, these… Internet Archive Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail 2009 · Talk · 11 min Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail… Internet Archive Arts Alive ★ High School Arts Appreciation Series 1984 · Talk Arts Alive ★ High School Arts Appreciation Series ➖ Dance, musical composition, drawing and digital graphics ➖ the Arts Alive has it all. Once you see how… Internet Archive Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities 2017 · Talk With more than half of the world population living in cities, one thing is undeniable: we are an urban species. Part game, part urban planning sketching tool,… Internet Archive Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research 2018 · Talk Seemingly pointless scientific research can lead to extraordinary discoveries, says physicist Suzie Sheehy. In a talk and tech demo, she shows how many of our…