03:09 This Thai ad is a stirring, cinematic spot in which the daughter of a charity worker visits a Thai woman who helped her father when he was a prisoner of war in World War II.

03:16 This compelling, powerful animated PSA was produced to draw attention to the urgent issue of elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade, which is predominantly funding many terrorist organizations in Africa.

02:08 Kids are blindfolded and asked to pick out their moms by touch alone. They touch rings and bracelets, hair and noses. Even more touching is the worry on each mom’s face as she waits to see if her child would recognize her, followed by tears of joy when they do.

04:08 What happens when you combine the talents of ballet bad boy Sergei Polunin, Irish gospel luminary Hozier, and photography pop wizard David LaChapelle? The result is a whole lot of angsty, sexy, beautiful dancing. The bluesy tunes of “Take Me To Church,” together with stunning choreography, guide Polunin through a torturous flurry of writhing arches and spins.

01:00 This mouth-watering ad is laden with all the drool-inducing techniques characteristic of good food spots – close-ups, slow-motion and time-lapse shots that all blend together in a perfect medley of deliciousness. Clean your screen before licking it!

02:42 A team of explorers took their quest for adventure into the mouth of a live volcano. They journeyed deep into the Marum crater in the South Pacific and shot this incredible video. The footage is unbelievable, as the camera captures them closer than any rational human being should stand next to a spewing, unpredictable pool of lava. The whole thing is edited in high-tension fashion, and the soundtrack really sells the drama.

01:00 This beautiful, inspiring spot features the star soloist for the American Ballet Theater. The ad shows Copeland warming up, while the voice of a young girl reads real rejection letters that she received. “You have the wrong body for ballet.” We then see Copeland fly through the air and spin across the stage, challenging her supposed fate.

02:09 A beautifully shot video that takes us on the strange, backward journey of a lovely young woman. Her dreamlike, journey takes us through Barcelona during the Feast of St. Joan and includes fireworks and dancing and gigantic bubbles all ticking backwards in time. As she walks forward through the world, the rest of the world moves backwards around her.

02:36 Meet Ouka, an extraordinarily talented Japanese street performer and ring juggler. His fluid ring act will astound you. This is real time live footage. No CGI, no special effects, and no stop motion.

02:29 Everything is over the top in Dubai, including their fireworks. During the six-minute show more than 500,000 fireworks exploded, spanning 62 miles of Dubai’s seafront and ending with a grandiose “artificial sunset.” Here are the highlights. The entire spectacle was controlled by a network of 100 computers, took 10 months to plan and cost $6 million.

08:16 This remarkable indie sci fi film is the story of Arya, the last remaining member of a lineage with a unique genetic code that grants the ability to survive the folding of temporal and spatial boundaries. She can teleport to explore new planets and has a lust for finding life beyond our own. More than anything, she’s looking for answers. It features stunning visions of distant worlds, and an intense performance.

03:53 Watch elaborately designed domino patterns flow seamlessly into one another, collapsing from swirls, towers, popsicle-stick cityscapes, and more in an epic Rube Goldberg machine style video. Set to rhythmic music, it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

05:55 An extraordinary display of beauty and grace. Guan Yin is the Bodhisattva of compassion, revered by Buddhists as the Goddess of Mercy. This incredible video shows 21 deaf dancers embodying the spirit of compassion. Relying only on signals from trainers at the four corners of the stage, these extraordinary dancers deliver a visual spectacle that is both intricate and stirring.

01:16 “Baby & Me” starts with an adult catching his reflection in a bus window and seeing a baby version of himself looking back at him. When he finds a full-length mirror, he starts dancing, and so does the baby. Other passersby find the same thing happening to them, leading them to a joyous dance-off against pint-size versions of their younger selves.

03:01 This compelling video teaches a vital lesson about how we view ourselves compared to how others see us. It illustrates the results of a social experiment Dove conducted exploring how women view their own beauty in contrast to what others see.

02:26 While sporting her own array of polish colors on her hooves, Lady in Black gives the dancers some pretty tough competition when she begins effortlessly tap dancing and dancing en pointe. It’s an awesome short, quite unlike anything you’ll have seen before.

10:06 Meet Kelvin Doe, a 15-year-old completely self-taught engineering whiz from Sierra Leone who was given the chance to visit and study at MIT. His story is inspiring and remarkable – showing that inspiration and innovation can spring from anywhere. Kelvin’s drive to teach himself electronics and help his community by reverse-engineering radios, generators and other devices from what 99.9% of the population would consider trash is a moving reminder of that fact.

04:15 Coca-Cola’s famous polar bears are skewered – as is the whole soft-drink industry – in a clever and cute animated anti-sugary-drink satire set to a bouncy song. The video’s goal is to show the ill effects of drinking too many sugary beverages. The papa bear not only suffers from erectile dysfunction, but also contracts Type 2 diabetes, which forces him to have a “grizzly” leg amputation. The video ends with the polar bear family pouring their cola into the ocean.

04:32 An absolutely amazing 3D animation of the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece showing exactly how it is inside and out, furniture, staircases, fireplace and all.

06:07 This cavalcade of ball bearings, balloons and bowling balls is sure to put a smile on your face. It’s an amazingly cool Rube Goldberg machine that uses chain reactions to a complete a simple task as inefficiently as possible.

03:12 Way cool. You’ll be captivated by the simplicity and beauty of this art created by Holton Rower by slowly pouring different brightly colored paints on top of each other down a wooden structure and having them settle/mix together through gravity. Check out the video and see the action set to music from Kronos Quartet.

03:24 As if leaping from the top of a 55-story resort weren’t spectacular enough, this adrenaline pumping video uses Singapore’s futuristic skyline as a backdrop.

03:17 Watch the grace and beauty of ballet captured at 1,000 frames-per-second, set to a Radiohead song. You’ll see what the dancers’ bodies are doing like never before.

02:22 In this ImprovEverywhere prank at New York’s Grand Central Terminal, each person makes his or her own choice for the frozen moment. Some froze midway through eating or drinking. A few froze while taking off a jacket. One couple froze kissing.

17:30 The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED stage with an emerging global street-dance culture and their acrobatic superpowers.

02:40 On a single day in 2010 thousands of individuals across the globe pointed a camera at the issues in their lives that mattered most. The result, an epic documentary of our diverse planet drawn from over 3,000 hours worth of footage. It follows characters and events that evolve throughout the day, interspersed with expansive global montages.

04:25 This is a great story about a horse trainer and his 10-year-old jockey facing the biggest day of their lives at Mongolia’s Naadam summer festival. which celebrates the ‘manly sports’ of wrestling, archery, and racing. The footage is amazing.

44:49 Yabusame is a ceremony in which archers clad in the hunting outfit of medieval warriors shoot at three targets as they race by on horseback. This amazing video shows Tim Ferriss (who speaks Japanese fluently) trying to deconstruct and learn the ancient art in just 5 days. Although he has had some experience with Western-style horseback riding, this is a whole new challenge.

04:02 A fun video tracing the evolution of the tiny symbols for each Olympic sport since their appearance in 1936.

01:50 This video showcases The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers (the LXD) awesome cinematography and dancing.

04:29 Stunning, inspired night imagery of multiple fountains in Dubai; the spectacular show is set to “Time to Say Goodbye” by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman.

03:04 McFerrin uses movement and sound to demonstrate the pattern of the pentatonic scale. He gives his audience one note and then a second one to repeat to illustrate music’s interaction with the brain and our emotions.

05:09 Artist Ilana Yahav’s fingers dance in the sand on the glass to evocative music, creating a wonderful and magical story that’s beautiful, powerful, and moving.

0:40 A magical evening light show set in a forest pulsating with color and imagination, produced using stop motion techniques and light painting.

06:13 Imaginative motion graphics portray major wars around the world by battling the foods of the conflicting countries against one another. Boing Boing tv edited the film to include the names of the wars being depicted, helpful for those of us who forgot what we learned in history class.

02:36 See over six thousand still photos of cameras and camera parts animated and edited together to create the sensation of movement. It’s set to sounds recorded from a collection of antique cameras.