Film & Media Culture

General popular research site for details and lists concerning films and their casts and crews.  Includes synopses, box office statistics, links to external reviews, important quotations, soundtrack listings, and connections to other films.

Tracks box office statistics by various time period and/or by individual films.  Also groups films in franchises for easy side-by-side comparison.

An authoritative filmographic database covering every feature-length film film in the United States or financed by American production companies.

A searchable film index of over 300,000 films, compiled by Alan Goble. Particularly strong with foreign language and short films.

Over 7,000 U.S. and Canadian advertisements covering five product categories - Beauty and Hygiene, Radio, Television, Transportation, and World War II propaganda - dated between 1911 and 1955. Visit the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University for more collections of vintage advertisements and TV commercials.

This section of the Internet Archive offers free movies, films, and videos, and contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users, ranging from classic full-length films to daily alternative news broadcasts to cartoons and concerts. Many are available for free download. The Internet Archive is a library founded to provide access to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, and video.

A project to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.  Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. Because researchers attempting to solve similar problems will have access to the same video content, the repository is also intended to be used as a test collection that will enable systems to be compared, similar to the way the TREC conferences are used for text retrieval.

A joint venture of Google Video and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation offers video interviews with many of television's best actors, writers, producers and directors.

A collection of digitized, classic media periodicals published before 1923 such as Photoplay (1917-1940), Radio Broadcast (1922-1930), Moving Picture World (1912-1918), The Film Daily (1918-1936), and many others. A full-text collection covering the histories of early cinema, broadcasting, and recorded sound.