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| [[File:A free digital library.png|200px]]
| ''[http://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html A free digital library]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/dom-26035-brewsterkahlebuildsafreedigita mirror])</small>
| 2007
| Brewster Kahle
| Internet Archive
| English<br/>24 langs. (subs)
| 20 min.
| [[Brewster Kahle]] is building a truly huge digital library -every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history... It's all free to the public- unless someone else gets to it first.
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| [[File:Internet Archive by Deepspeed media.png|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_-fgy3EGY Archive]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/youtube-ec_-fgy3EGY mirror])</small>
| 2012
| Jonathan Minard
| Internet Archive
| English
| 12 min.
| Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive's staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts. The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
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| [[File:Digital Amnesia.png|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs Digital Amnesia]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/DigitalAmnesiaDocumentary mirror])</small>
| 2014
| Bregtje van der Haak
| Internet Archive
| English<br/>French (subs)<br/>Spanish (subs)
| 49 min.
| Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? Featuring [[Brewster Kahle]], [[User:Jscott|Jason Scott]], the [[ArchiveTeam Warrior]] software, and more.
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| [[File:La oscura era digital.png|200px]]
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| 20 min.
| 20 min.
| An essay on the potential and the limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]].
| An essay on the potential and the limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]].
|-
| [[File:Digital Amnesia.png|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs Digital Amnesia]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/DigitalAmnesiaDocumentary mirror])</small>
| 2014
| Bregtje van der Haak
| Internet Archive
| English<br/>French (subs)<br/>Spanish (subs)
| 49 min.
| Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? Featuring [[Brewster Kahle]], [[User:Jscott|Jason Scott]], the [[ArchiveTeam Warrior]] software, and more.
|-
| [[File:A free digital library.png|200px]]
| ''[http://www.ted.com/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html A free digital library]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/dom-26035-brewsterkahlebuildsafreedigita mirror])</small>
| 2007
| Brewster Kahle
| Internet Archive
| English<br/>24 langs. (subs)
| 20 min.
| [[Brewster Kahle]] is building a truly huge digital library -every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history... It's all free to the public- unless someone else gets to it first.
|-
| [[File:Internet Archive by Deepspeed media.png|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_-fgy3EGY Archive]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/youtube-ec_-fgy3EGY mirror])</small>
| 2012
| Jonathan Minard
| Internet Archive
| English
| 12 min.
| Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive's staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts. The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
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Films and documentaries about archiving. Please, help with expanding this list if you can.

Image Title Year Director(s) Topic(s) Language(s) Duration Summary
A free digital library.png A free digital library
(mirror) 		2007 Brewster Kahle Internet Archive English
24 langs. (subs) 		20 min. Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history... It's all free to the public- unless someone else gets to it first.
Internet Archive by Deepspeed media.png Archive
(mirror) 		2012 Jonathan Minard Internet Archive English 12 min. Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale. Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive's staff have built the world's largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts. The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive's headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.
Digital Amnesia.png Digital Amnesia
(mirror) 		2014 Bregtje van der Haak Internet Archive English
French (subs)
Spanish (subs) 		49 min. Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a webpage is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online. But is that really true? For the first time in history, we have the technological means to save our entire past, yet it seems to be going up in smoke. Will we suffer from collective amnesia? Featuring Brewster Kahle, Jason Scott, the ArchiveTeam Warrior software, and more.
La oscura era digital.png La oscura era digital: ¡socorro! ¡estamos despareciendo!
(mirror) 		2004 Jörg Daniel Hissen
Peter Moers 		Digital preservation
Digital Dark Age 		Spanish 51 min. It analyses the effects of digital obsolescence, destruction of data and digital preservation efforts. It includes interviews to Stewart Brand, founder of Long Now Foundation.
Toute la memoire du monde.png Toute la mémoire du monde
(mirror) 		1956 Alain Resnais National libraries French
English (subs) 		20 min. An essay on the potential and the limits of dutifully archived human knowledge, masquerading as a documentary on the organisation of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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