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Film Sites on The World Wide Web

The All-Movie Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/amg_root.html

E! Online's Movie Finder
http://www.moviefinder.com/

Hollywood Online's MoviePeople Database
http://moviepeople.hollywood.com/

The Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com

Microsoft Cinemania
http://cinemania.msn.com/movies/movies.asp

TV Guide's Movie Database
http://tvguide.com/movies/

Animation Database
http://www.lib.shizuoka.ac.jp/betty.html
Database for credits of the American Animated Short Cartoons (1928-1972).

The Ultimate TV List
http://www.ultimatetv.com
Contains over 9,533 links for over 1,250 shows.

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Film Criticism and Reviews

Film.com
http://www.film.com/about/

Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/lookup?

Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Women's Studies Film Reviews: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/
FilmReviews/

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Film Libraries and Archives

American Archives of the Factual Film
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/aaff.html

Bibliotheque nationale de France
http://www.bnf.fr/web-bnf/catalog/index.htm

Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html

The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

Haddon (Ethnographic films before 1945)
http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/haddon/HADD_home.html

Internet Moving Images Archives
http://www.archive.org/movies

Library of Congress General Motion Picture Site: gopher://marvel.loc.gov:70/11/research/reading.rooms/motion.picture

Library of Congress Early Motion Picture Collections Site
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/mpixhome.html

National Center for Jewish Film
http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/index.html

National Film Board of Canada
http://www.nfb.ca/E/index.html

Northeast Historic Film
http://www.acadia.net/oldfilm/

Pacific Film Archives
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/

Public Motion Picture Research Centers and Film Archives
http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/arch.html

Repositories of Primary Sources
http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/default.html

WPA Library (British Pathe News etc.)
http://www.mpimedia.com/wpa/

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Film Scripts

Online film scripts
http://www.script-o-rama.com/index.shtml

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Glossary of Film and Video Terms

On-Line Glossary
http://www.sunsetpost.com/glossary.htm

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Industry Organizations

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
http://www.oscars.org/ampas/

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
http://www.emmys.org/

Directors' Guild of America
http://www.dga.org/dga-info/aboutdga.htm

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Journals

Film/TV/Media Journals listings
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/res/journals/index.htm

Actuacine (French film)
http://www.imaginet.fr/~fcm/

American Cinematographer
http://www.cinematographer.com/magazine/index.htm

Animation Journal
http://www.chapman.edu/animation

basilisk (film, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, and perception)
http://www.basilisk.com

Bright Lights (analysis, history, and commentary)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com

Camera Obscura (feminism and media theory)
http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/journals/

Canadian Journal of Communication
http://www.cjc-online.ca/

Canadian Journal of Film Studies Online
http://www.film.queensu.ca/FSAC/CJFS.html

Cinema Journal
http://www.cinemastudies.org/cj.htm

Classic Images
http://www.classicimages.com/

Cinema Technoogy
http://www.bksts.com

Continuum
http://kali.murdoch.edu.au/~cntinuum/

Critical Theory (interdisciplinary journal of criticism and theory)
http://www2.uchicago.edu/jrnl-crit-inq/

CTheory (reviews of books on theory, technology and culture)
http://www.ctheory.com/ctheory.html

DGA Magazine (Directors' Guild of America)
http://www.dga.org/magazine/index.htm

E! Online
http://www.eonline.com/

El Amante Cine (Argentina)
http://elamante.com.ar/

Film and History
http://h-net2.msu.edu/~filmhis/

Film and Philosophy
http://www.hanover.edu/philos/film/home.htm

Film Comment
http://www.filmlinc.com/fcm/fcm.htm

Film Culture
http://www.arthouseinc.com/filmculture/index.html

Film Feature Forum (essays and articles published in European film journals) http://gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at:80/~puntigam/FFF/index.html

Film-Historia
http://www.swcp.com/~cmora/historia.html

Film International
http://gpg.com/film/

Filmmaker: The Magazine of Independent Film
http://www.filmmag.com/

fps (animation)
http://www.cam.org/~pawn/fps.html

Film Quarterly
http://aaup.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/66/california/fq.ctl

Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television
http://www.carfax.co.uk/hjf-ad.htm

Hors Champ (film criticism and theory)
http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/

Indie Wire (independent filmmaking)
http://www.indiewire.com/index.html

Iris: A Journal of Image and Sound
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/programs/filmstudies/iris/index.html

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/

Journal of Film Preservation
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/fiaf/Journal/index.html

Journal of Popular Film and Television
http://www.heldref.org/html/body_jtf_t.html

Jump Cut (contemporary media)
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/JumpCut/

Kinema (film history, theory, and aesthetics)
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/kinemahp.htm

Kulture Void Pictures (independent filmmaking)
http://www.kulture-void.com/

Lahikuva (audio-visual culture)
http://www.utu.fi/etvtiede/lahikuva/

L'Art du Cinema
http://www.imaginet.fr/secav/adc/

The MacGuffin (Alfred Hitchcock)
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/

Micro-Film (independent and experimental film)
http://www.artisticunderground.com/mf_unbound/micro_film.html

Millennium Film Journal (independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema)
http://www.sva.edu/MFJ/

Post Script (film as literature, language, and visual art)
http://www.tamu.commerce.edu/coas/litlang/postscript.html

Premiere
http://www.premieremag.com/

Quarterly Review of Film and Video
http://www.gbhab-us.com/journals/304/304-top.htm

Screen (contemporary film and cultural theory)
http://www.oup.co.uk/jnls/list/screen/

Screening the Past (electronic journal of film history)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/

The Silents Majority (silent film)
http://www.mdle.com/ClassicFilms/

Velvet Light Trap (film theory, criticism, and history)
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/journals/jvlt.html

Wide Angle (film theory, criticism, history, and aesthetics)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/

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Links to On-Line Scholarly Resources

Cinemedia
http://afi.cinemedia.org/welcomes/you.html

Screensite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/

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Links to On-Line Popular Resources

Cinema Sites
http://www.cinema-sites.com/

Movies on the Net
http://gen.com/ani/moviemks.htm

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Museums

American Museum of the Moving Image
http://nyctourist.com/ammi.htm

George Eastman House
http://www.eastman.org/

Museum of Modern Art
http://12.3.56.5/menu.html

Museum of the Moving Image
http://www.bfi.org.uk/museum/

National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
http://www.nmsi.ac.uk/nmpft/

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Scholarly Discussion Groups

H-Film@H-Net.MSU.Edu -- Film History and the Uses of Media
Screen-L@ua1vm.ua.edu -- Study of Film and Television
AMIA-L@ukcc.uky.edu -- Association for Moving Image Archivists
Film-Philosophy@mailbase.ac.uk -- Philosophy and Film
Film-Theory@lists.village.virginia.edu -- Film Theory

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Searchable Film Databases

All-Movie Guide
http://AllMovie.com/

Freeality Internet Search - Online Film Resources
http://www.freeality.com/film.htm

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/

The Motion Picture Guide
http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/cgi-bin/page.c

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Scholarly and Professional Organizations and Associations

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
http://www.ampas.org/body.html

Alliance for Canada's Audio-Visual Heritage
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/alliance/english/mission.html

American Film Institute
http://www.afionline.org/home.html

American Society of Cinematographers
http://www.cinematographer.com/

Artists' Rights Foundation
http://www.artistsrights.org/

Asian Cinema Studies Society
http://www.trentu.ca/academic/cultstudies/cinema97/

Association Française de Recherche sur l'Histoire du Cinéma (AFRHC)
http://www.sosi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHC.html

Association of Moving Image Archivists
http://www.amianet.org/

Association Québécoise des Études Cinématographiques (AQEC)
http://leroy.cc.uregina.ca/~matherp/index.html

Canadian Communications Foundation
http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/schools/rta/ccf/

Film Studies Association of Canada/Association canadienne des études cinématographiques (FSAC/ACEC)
http://www.film.queensu.ca/FSAC/home.html

International Federation of Film Archives
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/FIAF/default.html

International Federation of Television Archives
http://www.nbr.no/fiat/fiat.html

The Motion Picture Association of America
http://www.mpaa.org/home.htm

National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
http://www.namac.org/

The Society for Cinema Studies
http://www.CinemaStudies.org/

Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
http://www.smpte.org/

Theatre Historical Society of America
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~angell/thsa/

University Film and Video Association
http://www.rtvf.nwu.edu/ufva/

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Syllabi

Course syllabi:
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite/teach/syl/

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Trade Newspapers

Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/

Variety:
http://www.variety.com/

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Useful On-Line Film Resources and Research Guides

Alfred Hitchcock Scholars - MacGuffin Page
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/news-home_c.html

American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. Inc.
http://www.altinet.net/biograph/

Association francaise de recherche sur l'histoire du cinema
http://www.sosi.cnrs.fr/AFRHC/AFRHC.html

Black Eye on Film
http://home.navisoft.com/bam/page2.htm

Early French film site
http://perso.magic.fr/concept/WELCOME2.HTM

Flicker (Alternative film site)
http://www.sirius.com/~sstark/

The German-Hollywood connection
http://www.german-way.com/cinema/index.html

GRAFICS Early Cinema site
http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/grafics/

Historical Horror Site
http://www.drcasey.com/movie.html

History of the Moving Image from Antiquity to 1900 http://www.cinemedia.net/SFCV-RMIT-Annex/rnaughton/MAGIC_MACHINES.html

Internet Source book for Early German Film
http://www.filmgeschichte.de/

Patricia Aufderheide, Cross-Cultural Film Guide
http://www.library.american.edu/collects/media/aufderhe/aufderhe.html

The Serial Squadron (movie serials)
http://members.aol.com/serialhq/index.htm

Silent Film Bookshelf
http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/

Silent Movies
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/

SOFIA (Study of Film as Internet Application)
http://www.unl.ac.uk/sofia/

Taylorology (on-line early film articles)
http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/

Women in Cinema
http://poe.acc.virginia.edu/~pm9k/libsci/womFilm.html

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National Cinemas

Canada -- Telefilm Canada
http://www.telefilm.gc.ca

Hong Kong -- Hong Kong Cinema Database
http://egret0.stanford.edu/hk/

Hong Kong -- Hong Kong Film Critics Society
http://filmcritics.org.hk/

India -- Indian Movie Gallery
http://www.iit.edu/~kohlaga/indmov.html

Ireland -- Irish Film Production Database
http://www.iol.ie/~standish/Data.html

Italy -- Viaggio in Italia (in Italian only)
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6841/

Japan -- University of Iowa Japanese Film Studies Bibliography
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/eac/japanfil.html

Mexico -- Mexican Film Resource Site
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dwilt/mfb.html

Poland -- Polish Cinema Database
http://info.fuw.edu.pl/Filmy/

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Video/Laserdisc/DVD distributors

Arab Film Distribution
http://info@arabfilm.com/

Australia's National Sound and Image Archive Sales
http://www.aa.gov.au/nfsa/shop/pricem.htm#silent

California Newsreel (African Films)
http://www.newsreel.org/

The Cinema Laser
http://www.thecinemalaser.com/

Criterion Collection - Voyager Company (laserdiscs/dvd)
http://www.criterionco.com/criterion/whatsnew.html

Electronic Arts Intermix
http://www.eai.org/eaihome_dist.html

Facets Multimedia
http://www.facets.org/index.html

First Run Icarus Films (Latin American films)
http://www.echonyc.com/~frif/

Ken Crane's Laserdiscs and DVDs
http://www.kencranes.com/

Kino On-line
http://www.kino.com/index.html

The Latin American Video Archive
http://www.lavavideo.org/lava/

Silent Film Sources
http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/

Video France
http://www.francevision.com/vf/videofrance/index.htm

Video Oyster (rare and out of print videos)
http://www.videooyster.com/

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This site was updated on 07-May-25.