The pilot program will include 103 films from the archive’s audiovisual collections, and will feature a selection of US government newsreels from the second world war and a few of the documentaries produced by NASA charting the history of the spaceflight program.
Today, we’ve begun to make the extraordinary historic films of the National Archives available to the world for the first time online, said Sergey Brin, president of technology at Google. Students and researchers whether in San Francisco or Bangladesh can watch remarkable video such as World War II newsreels and the story of Apollo 11 – the historic first landing on the Moon.
