Technology in the world's archives

1,825–1,872 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 Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics" 2015 · Talk · 6 min Hooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to… Internet Archive Mallory Soldner: Your company's data could end world hunger 2016 · Talk · 11 min Your company might have donated money to help solve humanitarian problems, but you could have something even more useful to offer: your data. Mallory Soldner… Internet Archive Danny Hillis: Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? 2017 · Talk In this perspective-shifting talk, Danny Hillis prompts us to approach global issues like climate change with creative scientific solutions. Taking a stand… Internet Archive Hadi Eldebek: Why must artists be poor? 2016 · Talk The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture — so why do we expect artists to struggle to make a living? Hadi Eldebek is working to create a… Internet Archive Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that 2013 · Talk · 9 min A billion people in the world lack access to all-season roads. Could the structure of the internet provide a model for how to reach them? Andreas Raptopoulos… Internet Archive Marc Raibert: Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors 2017 · Talk That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is… Internet Archive BT ' 1998' Advert 1997 · Commercial This is a film advert for British Telecom broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1997. The advert showcases a selection of British Telecom (BT) products that will… Internet Archive Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport 2013 · Talk · 15 min When Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago. Now, Dishman puts his experience and his expertise… Internet Archive Tiana Epps-Johnson: What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century 2018 · Talk The American election system is complicated, to say the least — but voting is one of the most tangible ways that each of us can shape our communities. How can… Internet Archive Nilay Kulkarni: A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes 2018 · Talk Every three years, more than 30 million Hindu worshippers gather for the Kumbh Mela in India, the world's largest religious gathering, in order to wash away… Internet Archive Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers 2018 · Talk India has the second largest population of any country in the world — yet it has only 50 decent bookstores, says publisher Chiki Sarkar. So she asked herself:… Internet Archive Margaret Mitchell: How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us 2017 · Talk As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate about what they see and understand. She tells a cautionary… Internet Archive Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning Talk · 8 min Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through… Internet Archive Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings 2012 · Talk · 12 min Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci’s lost fresco “The Battle of Anghiari,” and in… Internet Archive Rebecca MacKinnon: We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights 2016 · Talk · 12 min Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and… Internet Archive Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles 2017 · Talk Joan Blades and John Gable want you to make friends with people who vote differently than you do. A pair of political opposites, the two longtime pals know… Internet Archive Mathias Jud: Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies 2015 · Talk · 13 min In 2013, the world learned that the NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, routinely spied on the German government. Amid the outrage, artists Mathias Jud and… Internet Archive Kaitlyn Sadtler: How we could teach our bodies to heal faster 2018 · Talk What if we could help our bodies heal faster and without scars, like Wolverine in X-Men? TED Fellow Kaitlyn Sadtler is working to make this dream a reality by… Internet Archive Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter 2016 · Talk · 14 min What can a young woman with an idea, an Internet connection and a bit of creativity achieve? That's all Siyanda Mohutsiwa needed to unite young African voices… Internet Archive Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace 2017 · Talk Africa needs engineers, but its engineering students often end up working at auditing firms and banks. Why? Kamau Gachigi suspects it's because they don't… Internet Archive Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire 2018 · Talk When facts are false, decisions are wrong, says editor and TED Fellow Olga Yurkova. To stop the spread of fake news, she and a group of journalists launched… Internet Archive Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs 2017 · Talk In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on… Internet Archive Stop Fires Save Jobs 28212 Film Produced in the 1950s, "Stop Fires Save Jobs" was produced by American insurance companies as part of an educational program in co-ordination with National… Internet Archive DeAndrea Salvador: How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families 2018 · Talk Every month, millions of Americans face an impossible choice: pay for energy to power their homes, or pay for basic needs like food and medicine. TED Fellow… Internet Archive Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help startups get investment capital 2018 · Talk We're living in a golden era of innovation, says entrepreneur Ashwini Anburajan — but venture capital hasn't evolved to keep up, and startups aren't getting… Internet Archive Mark Shaw: One very dry demo 2013 · Talk · 5 min Mark Shaw demos Ultra-Ever Dry, a liquid-repellent coating that acts as an astonishingly powerful shield against water and water-based materials. At the nano… Internet Archive Kids WB December 1998 Commercial Collection 2 1998 · Commercial A collection of commercials that aired sometime in December 1998 on Kids WB, during an episode of Pokemon. Originally recorded by Youtube user N Sands. The… Internet Archive Julio Gil: Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere 2017 · Talk Don't believe predictions that say the future is trending towards city living. Urbanization is actually reaching the end of its cycle, says logistics expert… Internet Archive Leila Takayama: What's it like to be a robot? 2017 · Talk We already live among robots: tools and machines like dishwashers and thermostats so integrated into our lives that we'd never think to call them that. What… Internet Archive Susan Emmett: This simple test can help kids hear better 2017 · Talk Children who live in rural areas can have a hard time getting to the doctor — much less to an audiologist's clinic for expensive, complex tests to check their… Internet Archive Tamas Kocsis: The case for a decentralized internet 2018 · Talk Who controls the internet? Increasingly, the answer is large corporations and governments — a trend that's threatening digital privacy and access to… Internet Archive NASA KSNN - CDs Film NASA Kids Science News segment explaining the technology of CDs. Internet Archive Nighat Dad: How Pakistani women are taking the internet back 2017 · Talk TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the… Internet Archive Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them 2017 · Talk Fifty years of armed conflict in Colombia has left the countryside riddled with land mines that maim and kill innocent people who happen across them. To help… Internet Archive Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson: The new generation of computers is programming itself 2017 · Talk Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring, informative… Internet Archive Windows 95 - A First Look 1995 · Educational · Subtitles Windows 95 - A First Look (Diamond Entertainment Corporation)(1995) VHS Dump 2011-10-05 Internet Archive David Lang: Let's protect the oceans like national parks 2018 · Talk You don't have to be a scientist to help protect the world's oceans, says underwater drone expert and TED Fellow David Lang — in fact, ordinary citizens have… Internet Archive Dustin Schroeder: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet 2017 · Talk Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies — from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors — are enabling scientists… Internet Archive The Robot Revolution? 1985 · Film · Subtitles Explores the role of computers in automating the American workplace in business, government, manufacturing, etc., and in the development of robots. 1… Internet Archive Steve McCarroll: How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain 2017 · Talk Geneticist Steve McCarroll wants to make an atlas of all the cells in the human body so that we can understand in precise detail how specific genes work,… Internet Archive THE INTERNET On April 4th, 1998 1998 · Film YouTube description: Entire video is edited because of a short clip of music copyrighted by king records, so if you want to complain to someone, complain to… Internet Archive CartoonNetwork.com Commercial: Space Ghost 1998 · Cartoon A commercial that aired sometime in 1998 advertising Cartoon Network's website, in which Space Ghost blows up a bunch of links to websites he finds boring. Internet Archive NASA KSNN - Boiling Fluids Film NASA Kids Science News segment explaining why NASA is boiling foods in space. Internet Archive Niels van Namen: Why the hospital of the future will be your own home 2018 · Talk Nobody likes going to the hospital, whether it's because of the logistical challenges of getting there, the astronomical costs of procedures or the alarming… Internet Archive Sam Rodriques: What we'll learn about the brain in the next century 2017 · Talk In this imaginative talk, neuroengineer Sam Rodriques takes us on a thrilling tour of the next 100 years in brain science. He envisions strange (and sometimes… Internet Archive BBC Open Saturday (1998) TV Science & Engineering Programs Internet Archive Andrew Bastawrous: A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable 2018 · Talk In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid… Internet Archive Computers, Spies and Private Lives 1982 · Film Reveals how computers routinely gather information on our finances, politics, tastes, and habits, posing a threat to our individual privacy. Focuses on…