Internet Archive
Founded on the goal of universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive has spent years scanning books, ripping software, and crawling the web to build what has become the world's largest online library. This film goes inside the organization's operations, following staff including Alexis Rossi, director of web collections, as they explain how pages are captured, stored, and kept retrievable decades later through the Wayback Machine. Interviews cover the physical realities of the project: server farms holding petabytes of data, book-scanning stations, and the redundancy systems built to survive hardware failure and institutional collapse alike. The film treats digital preservation as a genuinely unsolved engineering problem, one where formats become unreadable, storage media degrade, and no single copy is ever safe. It also sits with the scale of the ambition itself, an attempt to save a copy of the entire internet before it disappears. The result is a plain, informative look at an organization most people use without ever seeing how it works.