FILM

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Includes a database of Oscar winners.

American Film Institute: Celebrates excellence in the art of film, television, and digital media. The TV & Events section contains the "AFI's 100" lists of best movies, quotes, musicals and other categories.

Earlycinema.com: An introduction to the first decade of cinema. Includes a timeline, pioneers in the field and info about the early technology.

Film Noir: Explores the cinematic roots and origins of the "film noir" style.

Greatest Films: Includes plot synopses, review commentary, reference material, and historical background for hundreds of classic Hollywood/American and other English-language films in the last century.

Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture: A quarterly electronic journal about movies, TV, videos, and other popular visual arts.

Internet Movie Database: Includes filmographies, plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, technical data, reviews, and box office grosses.

Metacritic-Film: Scores film quality based on summaries and surveys of critics nationwide.

MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine: Online database of movie reviews, with more than 63,000 titles.

Voice of the Shuttle-Media Studies Page: Links to resources for film history, film theory, contemporary film, production companies, festivals, and film schools.