Films and documentaries about archiving

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 (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.
	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 (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: ¡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 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.

Photography

• Finding Vivian Maier
• Francisco Boix, un fotógrafo en el infierno (Spanish)

Records, vynils

• The World's Largest Record Collection

VHS

• Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector - A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors. (NSFW-ish)