Reference Shelf: Film

  • The Internet Movie Database is an international encyclopedia of films. Searchable by film title, genre, or personnel. Extensive use of hypertext links allows the user to trace many elements of an entry to other related entries. Many entries include the full texts of reviews.
  • FIAF Film & TV Indexes BU-px
    Index articles published in more than 300 film and television periodicals from 1972 to the present. The indexes cover primarily English and French-language magazines and journals.

  • Internet Archive Moving Images Collection contains over 60,000 " movies, films, and videos...[ranging] from classic full-length movies, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to user-uploaded videos of every genre."
  • Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE). A Web search engine covering more than 200,000 reviews of over 25,000 films.
  • Nom de Guerre. An alphabetical list of over 4700 pseudonyms stage names, nom de plume, Anglicizations, romanticizations, and eroticisms employed by the famous, along with their actual, pedestrian, overly ethnic, unpronounceable or otherwise inconvenient given names.

     
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        Film and Television



       

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