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Information Services
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 The Internet Movie Database
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An international volunteer effort covering over 100,000 movies and TV programs.
The database includes filmographies; plot summaries; character names; movie
ratings; year of release; running times; movie trivia; quotes; goofs;
soundtracks; personal trivia; alternative names; certificates; color information;
country of production; genres; production companies; sound mix; reference
literature; filming locations; sequel/remake information; release dates;
advertising tag lines; detailed technical data; and Academy Award®
information.
The database is available, for free, from several different locations.
Choose the one closest to you and if you cannot get through, try another.
An Introduction to the database
and a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
are also available.
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The All-Movie Guide
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Covers 71,500 feature films (131,000 films and videos total), 200,000 actors,
12,000 star bios, 750,000 cast credits, and 400,000 production credits.
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E! Online's Movie Finder
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Basic info on films, slanted toward recent releases and those on video.
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Hollywood Online's MoviePeople
Database
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More than 131,000 film titles and 850,000 cast credits.
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Microsoft Cinemania
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Formerly offered only on CD-ROM. Free (for now?).
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TV Guide's Movie
Database
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From Cinebooks' The Motion Picture Guide and Ephraim Katz's Film
Encyclopedia. Includes the cast, credits and reviews for more than 30,000
movies released in the U.S., plus filmographies and biographical information
on thousands of actors, directors and other filmmakers. Includes
current grosses,
too.
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GIST TV Listings
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A TV entertainment guide, giving users the "gist" of what’s on (U.S.)
TV every day.
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Student.Net TV Search & Remind
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Search TV listings for an entire month, select the shows that interest you,
and receive a reminder by email before the show airs.
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TV Guide
Online
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The world's biggest circulation print magazine...
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Yahoo!:
Other TV Listing Services
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Yahoo! links to a pile of TV listing services and provides its own TV listing
service (from TV Guide).
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Animation Database
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Database for credits of the American Animated Short Cartoons (1928 1972).
Covers 4,957 films from WB, MGM, Disney, Van Beuren,Famous Studio Waler Lantz,
Screen Gems, UPA, Terrytoons, Fleischer & other studios.
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Artcom International's
Database of Movies and Videos on AIDS/HIV
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The non-profit organization Artcom' International fosters the use of movies
and videos as a prevention tool in the fight against Aids. Artcom'International
has thus decided to provide movies and videos free of charge to private and
public organizations wishing to screen them publicly and freely. This has
been made possible through the help of producers and distributors.
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Hong Kong Movies
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Various info on Hong Kong filmmaking. Includes a searchable database with
information about Hong Kong movie actors.
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Polish Cinema Database
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Current contents includes information on the motion pictures made in Poland
after the World War II (that is after 1947) to the present. Some of the films
made by Polish directors abroad are also included. Overall, for the opening
of the database to the public, the index contains over 1,000 film titles;
over 300 have more detailed descriptions.
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The Ultimate TV List
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All manner and form of TV databases, lists and indexes. Contains over 9,533
links for over 1,250 shows.
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Asian Pacific American
Film, Video and Audio Collection
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The National Asian American Telecommunications Assn (NAATA)/CrossCurrent
Media and the UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
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HADDON: An on-line
catalogue of archival ethnographic film.
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The HADDON project - named after Alfred Court Haddon, the early British
anthropologist and pioneer in the use of film in anthropological research
- was established in October 1994 to collect information on the early history
of ethnographic cinema.
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The (U.S.) Library of Congress: General
Information
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You may search the LoCIS system by making
a Telnet connection to locis.loc.gov.
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MGM Video Savant
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An inquiries-and-answers column that fields reference and technical questions
about the MGM/UA library - and home video, film and movie history in general.
Edited by Glenn Erickson and sponsored by MGM
Home Video.
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The Vanderbilt TV News Archive,
Vanderbilt University
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Since August 5th 1968, The Television News Archive has systematically recorded,
abstracted, and indexed national television newscasts.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)
Audio Visual Centre
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WATMEDIA has a large film/video collection (including features) and their
database contains helpful documentation on their holdings.
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Marjorie Mitchell Media Center,
Northwestern University
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Feature films listed--including some cast and credit information.
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The
Prelinger Archives
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Richard Prelinger's collection of strange and screwy, "ephemeral" films,
with advice on how to run an archive. Last time we checked a
new Web site was under construction.
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