Storyville
Season 17 Episode 6 - Google and the World Brain
Storyville: Documentary which tells the story of the most ambitious project ever conceived on the internet and the people who tried to stop it. In 1937 HG Wells predicted the creation of the 'world brain', a giant global library that contained all human knowledge which would lead to a new form of higher intelligence. 70 years later the realisation of that dream was under way, as Google scanned millions of books for its Google Books website. However, over half those books were still in copyright and authors across the world launched a campaign to stop them, climaxing in a New York courtroom in 2011. This is a film about the dreams, dilemmas and dangers of the internet, set in spectacular locations in China, USA, Europe and Latin America.
Episodes in Season 17
The House I Live In
85 min
Harry Belafonte: Sing Your Song
85 min
Queen of Versailles
85 min
Death on the Staircase: The Last Chance
85 min
Expedition to the End of the World
85 min
Google and the World Brain
85 min
The Pirate Bay
85 min
How Hackers Changed the World: We Are Legion
85 min
I Will Be Murdered
85 min
Surviving the Tsunami: My Atomic Aunt
85 min
The Road, a Story of Life and Death
85 min
Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer
85 min
Silence in the House of God: Mea Maxima Culpa
85 min
The Law in These Parts
85 min
Power, Money, Greed & Oil
85 min
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
85 min
The Great Hip Hop Hoax
85 min
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
85 min
Smash & Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
85 min
The Disappeared
85 min
Hotel Folly - Folie a Deux
85 min
The Spy Who Went into the Cold: Kim Philby, Soviet Super Spy
85 min
Blackfish - The Whale that Killed
85 min
Fame in China
85 min
