Film Studies

Find detailed information about films including cast, plot summary, literary source, awards, reviews, images, film specifications, and release information. Advanced search allows search by location, characters, year of release and more. Try IMDB Pro for full crew and production contacts.

ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.

The American Film Institute's catalog has entries on nearly 60,000 American feature-length and 17,000 short films produced from 1893-2011, as well as Outstanding Movies of the Year from 2000 through 2010. Authoritative source for film cast, crew, music credits, plot summaries, literary source, production and release information, subjects, genres and historical notes.

British Film Institute's entries on more than 800,000 feature films, shorts, TV programmes, documentaries, newsreels and educational and training films. The focus is on UK productions, but it covers US and other international titles released in the UK. Film entries include synopses, crew, cast, music, release and production information, and literary source. Personal entries include biographic information, filmography. Both types of entries also include related festivals and awards.

Full text archive of classic film trade periodicals and fan magazines (public domain), covering 1917 - 1973. Titles include Hollywood Reporter, International Photographer, and Photoplay. Also available through Internet Archive.

Use POV's free and comprehensive resources to get your project made and seen. Find grant information, public television initiatives, engagement strategists, film festivals, new media funding and more.

The Ransom Center's movie poster collection consists of an estimated 10,000 posters from the silent era to the present day.

Browse the Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo. Learn about what you can and can't do with other people’s videos on Vimeo to help you share, rework and reuse legally.

Thousands of free stock videos, motion graphics, music tracks and sound effects, all in one place.

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.

A repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

Growing collection of high-quality video footage. Most files are free to download and free to use.

Download thousands of historic media files for your creative projects, completely free.

Free downloadable .mpeg4 moving images from a variety of sources.

Free stock photos & videos shared by talented creators.