Fuller YouTube Videos

A curated registry of video material on R. Buckminster Fuller — 47 hand-picked entries below, grouped by kind, drawn from a larger collection of 133 videos (47 curated + 86 most-viewed). The complete collection with embedded players lives at youtube_videos/index on this site.

This is the video companion to the Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller registry. Highlights include Fuller's own primary-source lectures — the twelve-session 1975 Everything I Know marathon and the 1979 MIT Spaceship Earth talk — the 1974 Robert Snyder documentary The World of R. Buckminster Fuller, and collaborator recollections (Shoji Sadao, E. J. Applewhite).

Curated videos

Lectures & Talks (6)

• Wholemovement: Folding the Circle for Information / Geometric Paperfolding by Bradford Hansen Smith — 2020
• Buckminster Fuller at MIT - Spaceship Earth - 1979 — 1979 · MIT Video Productions · 1:28:45
• Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Session 1 of 6 — 1975 · MitUnsDieZukunft · 7:00:00
• Buckminster Fuller - Everything I Know - Session 2 of 6 — 1975 · MitUnsDieZukunft · 7:00:00
• Buckminster Fuller - Bartlett Lecture (1972) — 2016 · Biophily2 · 3:14:34
• Richard Buckminster Fuller - Lecture - Part 1 — 2015 · AA School of Architecture · 1:03:19

Documentaries (3)

• The World of R. Buckminster Fuller — 1974 · Snyder · 1:25:00
• Buckminster Fuller / Living St. Louis — 2021 · Nine PBS · 0:26:30
• The World of Buckminster Fuller (1974) — 2016 · Resource Based Economy · 1:19:56

Interviews (4)

• Buckminster Fuller - Best Interview (1974) — 2012 · MitUnsDieZukunft · 58:11
• Buckminster Fuller - Lost Interviews - DVD part 1/2 — 2012 · CRONIC078 · 1:15:55
• Buckminster Fuller interview (1965) — 2016 · Biophily2 · 11:26
• What Happens WHEN YOU DIE: Fuller’s RARE Interview Reveals It All — 2024 · High Seas Compass · 3:48

Tutorials & How-To (1)

• Buckminster Fuller: How to Build a Geodesic Dome — 2008 · Whitney Museum · 0:03:15

About Fuller (overviews & explainers) (5)

• Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe — 2008 · Whitney Museum · 0:09:30
• The Rise & Fall of Dome Houses: Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Domes — 2025 · Architecture Channel · 0:15:42
• Inside Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome — 2024 · UIUC Talkshow · 0:12:30
• Buckminster Fuller and Creation of Geodesic Dome — 2024 · History and Theory of Architecture · 0:08:45
• Design is based on Buckminster Fuller’s inventions, the tensegrity structure. Dimensions inside — 2021 · Mold Craft · 6:59

Talks, Explainers & Shorts (26)

• Synergetics Livestream #024.1 ~ 24 Point One and Two Dozen of The Other (Dark Knowledge Imaginarium) — 2025
• Richard Thompson - Pharoah - NY 1992 — 2010
• Marina Warner - The Truth in Stories — 2017
• Why Be a Comprehensivist? — 2020
• Myth, Math & Magic: Buckminster Fuller's Legacy & Hall's Hermetic Wisdom with artist Benjamin Lowder — 2023
• Buckminster Fuller: The Man Who Saw The Future / Random Thursday — 2019 · Joe Scott · 11:33
• BUCKMINSTER FULLER IN 3 MINUTES — 2017 · Prosocial Progress Foundation · 3:31
• Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life / Blank on Blank — 2016 · Blank on Blank · 5:47
• Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud (1996) — 2016 · Resource Based Economy · 1:30:55
• RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER — 2023 · COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE CHANNEL · 3:34
• The Hidden History of the Geodesic Dome - Part 4: The Dreams of Buckminster Fuller — 2018 · Zip Tie Domes · 32:07
• Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome — 2010 · Jay Corless · 4:36
• Fuller Dome Tour — 2020 · Fuller Dome · 5:32
• Buckminster Fuller on Tensegrity Structures — 2012 · taijineigong · 6:38
• TENSEGRITY - Buckminster Fuller — 2008 · Markus MG · 2:36
• Synergetics and Quantum Physics — 2022 · Scientific Genius · 45:41
• The Synergetic Geometry of Buckminster Fuller / INTRO — 2020 · Synergetics University · 4:14
• Shoji Sadao: My Design Work with R. Buckminster Fuller — 2015 · SynergeticsCollab · 24:45
• The Ancient Wisdom of Synergetics — 2022 · Scientific Genius · 16:04
• Buckminster Fuller explained by E J Applewhite - Part 1 & 2 — 2015 · Robert Duchesnay · 31:08
• Synergetics of Buckminster Fuller — 2014 · Natalia Deszsign · 2:31
• R. Buckminster Fuller - Tunings — 2018 · Intellectual Deep Web · 58:59
• Innovate: Daniel Lopez-Perez and Hanif Kara, "R. Buckminster Fuller, Pattern Thinking" — 2015 · Harvard GSD · 1:03:26
• The Incredible Man Who Achieved More with Less — 2024 · Ratio Freedom Documentaries · 29:05
• R. Buckminster Fuller "Lifting the Curtain" — 2012 · stonesfcr · 29:04
• 1/3. Buckminster Fuller and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Part One of Press Conference — 2009 · Maharishi Mahesh Yogi · 9:00

Most-viewed (86 more)

Beyond the curated set above, the collection tracks the 86 most-viewed Fuller videos on YouTube — heavy on the full Everything I Know sessions, dome-building how-tos, and popular explainers. See the full list with players at youtube_videos/index.

See Also

• Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller (Web Sources, Articles & Media on Fuller) — the companion text/web registry
• Everything I Know (Everything I Know) — the 1975 lecture series featured throughout
• The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller) — Sam Green's live documentary
• Shoji Sadao (Shoji Sadao) — collaborator interviewed in the collection
• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure

Sources

• YouTube Videos Collection (Fuller) — ingest-by-reference pointer to youtube_videos/index.md (131 videos)