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Helpful Websites for Finding Information on Film

Complete Index to World Film Since 1895 Database of over 379,000 films from 175 countries compiled by Alan Goble
Critical Commons Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts.
Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (abbreviated IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games, including cast, production crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries, trivia and reviews.
Media History Project Contains many useful links pertaining to the history of radio, television, and film, as well as other forms of media.
Academy Awards Databases Databases covering many aspects of the Academy of Motion Pictures, including awards, manuscripts, photographs, acceptance speeches and more.
Moving Image Source The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.
Society of Cinema and Media Studies Professional organization of college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, and others devoted to the study of the moving image.
University Film and Video Association UFVA is an organization of professors, scholars, and film and video makers.The organization is based in the U.S.; it has members throughout the world. The UFVA is an international organization where media production and writing meets the history, theory and criticism of the media.

Websites with Media for Re-use

Getty Images Offers royalty free footage
Open Images Open Images is an open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse. This website hosts well over a thousand audiovisual works that can be freely downloaded, remixed, and redistributed.
UbuWeb Streams art clips, films; a good resource for avant-garde artists' videos.

Websites with Free Streaming Content

Federal Government Produced Films Fedflix features the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.
Full-Length and Short Films Online The Moving Image Source Research Guide is a gateway to the best online resources related to film, television, and digital media.
Getty Images Offers royalty free footage
Internet Movie Archive Free library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Movie Clips Offers up thousands of searchable, embeddable, shareable legally licensed movie clips from Hollywood flicks — including films that are current in theaters — for free.
Open Vault Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning.
Prelinger Archives This is a collection of over 2000 films including stock footage, old commercials, and other materials. They are freely available for download and reuse under the Creative Commons license.
ScienceCinema ScienceCinema highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy. Using innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research, ScienceCinema allows users to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files.
Top Documentary Films TDF offers free streaming access to documentaries

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