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| 30 min.
| 30 min.
| Reveals the rich and diverse American film heritage and shows us how preservation saves both the cultural heritage and the individual memories.
| Reveals the rich and diverse American film heritage and shows us how preservation saves both the cultural heritage and the individual memories.
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| [[File:Recorder The Marion Stokes Project.jpg|200px]]
| ''Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project''
| 2018
| Matt Wolf<br/>Kyle Martin
| Television
| English
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| Radical Communist, counter-cultural television producer, Apple shareholder, and private archivist Marion Stokes captured three decades of television on her VCR. Her expansive project tore her family apart, but it’s now being digitized by the Internet Archive.
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| [[File:Rosetta.jpg|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPKWyakBl0 Rosetta]''
| 2012
| Scott Oller
| Languages
| English
| 14 min.
| This documentary takes a look at the Long Now Foundation's Rosetta Project, a unique effort to archive all of the world's languages.
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| [[File:Saving our sounds.jpg|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcsTwJ7jRt8 Saving Our Sounds: Preserving Historical Recordings and Music]''
| 2002
| Edward Herrmann
| Music
| English
| 43 min.
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| [[File:The man who wanted to classify the world.jpg|200px]]
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| 60 min.
| 60 min.
| Paul Otlet was a Belgian who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.  
| Paul Otlet was a Belgian who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.  
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| [[File:The race to save 100 years.jpg|200px]]
| ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEZlZBiGZE The Race to Save 100 Years]''<br/><small>([https://archive.org/details/youtube-ItEZlZBiGZE mirror])</small>
| 1997
| Scott Benson
| Films
| English
| 57 min.
| As the documentary points out, 85 percent of all silent pictures are gone forever because of neglect, abuse, and improper storage of original prints. This film stresses the importance of saving these and more recent films as cultural documents that have become part of our shared history. It also takes the viewer through the painstaking process of film restoration, and highlights some of the organizations and individuals who are spear-heading this movement.
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| [[File:The World Largest Record Collection.png|200px]]
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| 2008
| 2008
| Sean Dunne
| Sean Dunne
| Vinyls
| Music
| English
| English
| 8 min.
| 8 min.
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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]].
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| [[File:Bbc timeshift missing-believed-wiped.jpg|200px]]
| ''[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvum24 BBC Timeshift - Missing Believed Wiped]''
| 2003
| Jo Haywood
| Television, Video Tape
| English
| 40 min.
| The history of the BBC's once prevalent, but short-sighted, policy of wholesale disposal of recorded television content, and the efforts to mitigate that loss.
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Latest revision as of 22:47, 22 January 2021

This is a list of films and documentaries about archiving. Not only about professional archiving, but also amateur efforts by anonymous people, collectors of vinyls, VHS tapes or prolific photographers. This page also includes documentaries about preservation and restoration of works by libraries and museums specialist departments, and book digitization projects.