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Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
Database of Oscar winners and nominees.

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
A collection of 150 motion pictures illustrating "work, school, and leisure activities in the United States." Searchable by keyword, and browsable by title and subject. Includes films of "the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercises in schools, amusement parks, boxing, expositions, football, parades, swimming...." Also contains related essays and a bibliography. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress.

Box Office Mojo
Presents various box office statistics, including current weekend gross.

British Pathe Film Archive
The special feature of this site is the ability to browse previews of the films in the entire 3500-hour British Pathe Film Archive, "which covers news, sport, social history, and entertainment from 1896 to 1970." Preview Film shows stills from the actual film clips, which are often several minutes long and which you get by using the Download Now button and filling out a brief registration form. Searchable.

Europa Film Treasures
Europa Film Treasures is based on a partnership with the most prestigious archive resources and film archives in Europe providing access to restored versions of early, rare and artistic films depicting Europe 's cultural heritage, politics, and history.

Indiana University Bloomington Guide to Web Resources in Film Studies.
An extensive gateway to resources on the Internet.

Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
The mother of all movie databases containing more than 200,000 entries

 


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