TED Talks

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John Paget

How to keep your hometown from becoming a ghost town

Posted Mar 2023

4:48

Jawad Sharif

3 stories of Pakistani resilience, told in film

Posted Feb 2023

14:46

Sid Thatham

The value of an eclectic streaming queue

Posted Jan 2023

23:45

Tamana Ayazi and Kat Craig

The danger and devotion of fighting for women in Afghanistan

Posted Nov 2022

7:55

Zach King

The trick to regaining your childlike wonder

Posted Sep 2022

15:10

Julieanna L. Richardson

The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

Posted Jun 2022

12:31

Mounia Akl

How film captures the space between hope and despair

Posted Feb 2022

9:52

Liam Young

Planet City — a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

Posted Sep 2021

5:37

Almudena Toral

Documentary films that explore trauma — and make space for healing

Posted Jul 2021

6:33

Feras Fayyad

The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees

Posted Jun 2021

4:53

Sheila Marie Orfano

How do you know what's true?

Posted Jun 2021

27:30

How to Be a Better Human

How to challenge conventional wisdom — and change any industry

Posted Mar 2021

10:34

Mehret Mandefro

How a strong creative industry helps economies thrive

Posted Jan 2021

1h 2m

Reed Hastings

3 secrets to Netflix's success

Posted Sep 2020

6:39

Denise Zmekhol

A story of Brazil through a single iconic building

Posted Aug 2020

14:18

Alicia Malone

The overlooked legacy of Hollywood's first women directors

Posted Mar 2020

11:43

Diego Prilusky

How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking

Posted Feb 2020

15:42

Paul Franklin

The art and science of special effects

Posted Feb 2020

14:55

Gemma Jackson

How I bring imagined worlds to life

Posted Feb 2020

12:23

Diego Prilusky

¿Como será el cine del futuro?

Posted Dec 2019

5:27

Alexis Gambis

Why we need more (real) science in fiction

Posted Oct 2019

14:21

Jon M. Chu

The pride and power of representation in film

Posted Oct 2019

12:23

David Wenham

Why I became an actor

Posted Sep 2019

5:56

Nanfu Wang

What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy

Posted Jul 2019

12:19

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

How film transforms the way we see the world

Posted Jul 2019

14:02

America Ferrera

My identity is a superpower — not an obstacle

Posted May 2019

12:34

Doug Roble

Digital humans that look just like us

Posted May 2019

16:20

Franklin Leonard

How I accidentally changed the way movies get made

Posted Nov 2018

20:51

Reed Hastings

How Netflix changed entertainment — and where it's headed

Posted Jun 2018

2:24

Mother London

"AI therapy"

Posted Apr 2018

1:30

Duncan Cowles

"It's not amazing enough"

Posted Apr 2018

1:47

Aaron Duffy, Lake Buckley and Jack Foster

"Illusions for a better society"

Posted Apr 2018

2:59

Shane Griffin

"Chromatic"

Posted Apr 2018

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Adong Judith

How I use art to bridge misunderstanding

Posted Mar 2018

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Villy Wang

A business against racism

Posted Feb 2018

12:30

Yvette Alberdingk Thijm

The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths

Posted Dec 2017