These are all available free on-line.
Documentaries
- The Corporation - available thru legal BitTorrent download.
- BBC Horizon
- Penn and Teller’s Bullshit
- Nova
- Frontline
- RadioLab - It’s a radio show, but I like it so much I’m making it an honorary video.
- This American Life
Presentations
- TEDTalks
- Pop!Tech
- Google TechTalks
- Long Now Foundation Seminars
- Fora.tv
- The Research Channel
The best conference in the universe has redesigned their site and uploaded 30 new videos in the process. The new site has a cool category browser, relatively luxuriously large video player, comments, and rating such as inspiring, long-winded, misguided, funny, etc.
Another conference similar to TED. It looks like it may be just as good, but I’m just not familiar with it yet.
Google invites speakers to talk to their employees on topics ranging from programming to fusion and the paradox of choice. Very high quality guests.
The Long Now Foundation has a wide range of speakers presenting on topics having to do with the big questions. Why are we here, and now that we are, what should we do about it.
A virtual conference. It’s a collection of presentations and forums on politics, business, technology, arts, culture, science, and religion.
Started as a cable channel for researchers at major universities to share their work. It has expanded to include 3000 online videos.
Interviews
Classes
Specific videos I recommend:
Other lists:
- ThrowawayyourTV keeps this list at del.icio.us
- Best Online Documentaries
- The Best of Google Video
- Online Videos of Philosophical Lectures
- MeaningOfLife.tv
- Blinkx.tv
“Blinkx is the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine.” It uses speech recognition and visual analysis to crawl the web for video and audio media. It’s supposed to be a good source for full length shows.
