Internet resources

Rather than create yet another mega list of cinema-related sites, this page will include only major information sites and those which have been found useful. Please use the contact link below if you wish to suggest an addition.

INFORMATION SITES
Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
British Film Institute (BFI)
The UK's national body for film television and the moving image, comprising collections and archives, cinema exhibition and education.
American History & Film
Silent Era
Welcome to Silent Movies
Class Act
Index of actors and music featured in musicals
Northern Stars
Canadians in the movies. Includes brief bios of Marie Prevost, etc.
The German-Hollywood Collection
Information on many German stars and directors
Independent Films
Site dedicated to independent films and independent film makers

ARCHIVES
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
founded in Paris in 1938, FIAF is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose is to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
one of the largest collections of media materials in the United States.
Hong Kong Film Association

DVD/VIDEO DISTRIBUTORS & PRODUCERS
Kino International
US producer and distributor
Image Entertainment
US producer and distributor
Eureka Video
UK producer and distributor

JOURNALS / MAGAZINES / CRITICISM
Sight & Sound
online version of the monthly magazine from the British Film Institute
images
online journal of film and popular culture
Senses of Cinema
online film journal devoted to serious and eclectic discussion of cinema
Film International
Film International focuses on longer essays with in-depth-analysis, but also features interviews, festival reports, book reviews, special DVD editions, and live cinema.
Chronicle of a Passion
website of New York critic Steve Erickson

PEOPLE
The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch
brief bio, filmography, bibliography, etc
Web of Murnau
website dedicated to Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
The Louise Brooks Society
articles, interviews, filmography, bibliographies, etc
The Best of Everything: A Joan Crawford Encyclopedia
films, biography, chronology, photo gallery, tv, books, magazines, etc.

REVIEWS, BIOS, ETC.
The Dual Lens
Film reviews
Classic Movie Favourites
bios, filmographies, etc., of Joan Crawford, Busby Berkeley, and others