The most ambitious project ever conceived on the Internet: Google's master plan to scan every book in the world and the people trying to stop them. Google says they are building a library for mankind, but some say they also have other intentions.
Direction
Lewis turns copyright law into genuine suspense
Writing
H.G. Wells narration is gloriously extra
Production
Rare access to both Google execs AND furious authors
Director
Ben Lewis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Google scanned roughly 30 million books before legal challenges stalled the project; most remain inaccessible 'orphan works.'
The film eerily predicts later Big Tech battles—replace 'books' with 'AI training data' and it's 2024.
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