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Online Reference Shelf: Film & TV

eBooks and quality web-based reference materials.

Film

  • Facets nation's largest distributors of art, classic, cult, foreign and hard-to-find videos. Facets has over 27,000 titles, all of which are available for purchase through mail order.
  • Film Festivals.com includes all Film Festivals  from 1995 - to date; search by country, date or name.
  • ImDB  covers over 140,000 movies; includes filmographies, plot summaries; character names; movie ratings; year of release; genres; reviews; links to official studio pages, Academy Awards info +. Also covers television series.
  • Moviefone showtimes, tickets, "coming soon," DVDs and more.
  • Movie Review Query Engine includes reviews that have been posted in the past to rec.arts.movies.reviews or appear on one of the WWW servers of newspapers and periodicals.
  • Movie-STAR information on the Academy Awards since 1927, including more than 6,200 nominations and 1,200 Oscar awards in major categories for over 2400 motion pictures and 3900 individuals.
  • Oscars - Academy Awards official site of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
  • Rotten Tomatoes. Reviews, show times, top DVD rentals, etc.

TV and Internet Video

  • Hulu Includes full episodes of popular television series, both current and classic, as well as TV and movie clips and trailers. Subscription required.
  • Internet Meme Database|Know Your Meme a website "dedicated to documenting internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more"
  • PBS Online   
  • TV Guide Online Listings listings of U.S. television programs.
  • Vanderbilt Television News Archive collection of news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC from 1968 to the present; CNN from 1995 to the present; and FoxNews from 2004 to the present. DVD loans available on request. Princeton only includes access through online vide thousands of hours of news broadcasts. 
  • YouTube largest video sharing website, most content contributed by individuals. 
  • Moving Images Archive (Internet Archive) library of free movies and videos; contains more than 400,000 items, many available for free download.
  • Netflix includes full episodes of popular television series, both current and classic, as well as TV and movie clips and trailers.  Subscription required.