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Quick Reference
Film
Academy
Award Winners
From 1927 to present are listed as well as special summaries and poster
art. The Academy's list of the 100 Greatest
Films is a major attraction on this site.
All Movie Guide
Has a film finder that searches for titles, actors, creators, technical
features, and even locations. Films can also be browsed by genre. A glossary
of film terms as well as essays on techniques, genres, and film companies
are also included.
Based on the Book
A compilation of over 850 book titles, short stories, and plays that have
been made into motion pictures. Utilizing the Internet Movie Database as
the authority on release dates, all movies in this collection have been
released since 1980.
Docuseek: Film & Video Finder
A search site for independent documentary, social issue, and educational
videos available in the U.S. and Canada. DocuSeek allows you to simultaneously
search several leading film distributors' complete collections, representing
the highest quality documentary and instructional media, films and videos
available.
Film Critic
Hosts more than 3,600 movie reviews and feature stories contributed by some
20 critics located throughout the country.
Film Noir
Documents the characteristics and conventions of this style as well as provides
a detailed history and examples of various types of Noir films.
Film Reviews and Film Criticism Resources
Features an annotated list of resources both print and online.
Freedocumentaries.org
At Freedocumentaries.org, you can stream
interesting and provocative documentary films for free!
Glossary of Film Terms
What's a barney? An unsqueezed print? You can find these answers and more.
Internet Movie Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build
an ‘Internet library,’ with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist
in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located
in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data
donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more
well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving
images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections."
Internet Movie Database
Searchable by plot, character, or title. Local show times and new releases are major features.
Roger Ebert
Film review site has an archive as well as a list of great movies, a film
buff's calendar, and one minute reviews for the busy filmgoer.
Showbiz.quickfound.net
Streaming Video Search Engines & News: video search, multimedia search,
stream search.
Teach With Movies
This unique tool for teachers and parents indexes films by subject matter,
character development, ethical emphasis, and audience age.
