Film and Television Industry
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences The world's preeminent movie related organization, comprised of 7,000+ accomplished men and women working in cinema.
- American Film Institute Provides leadership in film, television and digital media and is dedicated to initiatives that engage the past, the present and the future of the moving image arts.
- Box Office Guru Provides box office info., including a database with comprehensive data on motion pictures released in North America between 1989 and the present.
- British Film Institute Promote greater understanding and appreciation of, and access to, film and moving image culture in the UK.
- The Encyclopedia of Television Examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes, and other topics written by media scholars the world over.
- Gotham Film & Media Institute Champions the future of storytelling by connecting artists with essential resources at all stages of development and distribution.
- Indiewire The latest movie news, TV news, movie reviews, TV reviews, celebrity interviews and how to guides to filmmaking
- Motion Picture Association of America Promote the success of their core mission: advancing the business and art of filmmaking, protecting the creative and artistic freedoms of filmmakers, and ensuring the satisfaction of our audiences worldwide.
- ScreenSite ScreenSite is a service of the Telecommunication and Film Department of the University of Alabama. It is available free of charge to anyone interested in the study of film, television, and related media. It is primarily a link directory, with the occasional article.
- Student Filmmakers.com Focuses on technology, new techniques, new workflows and creativity in the five distinct stages of production: Development, Pre-Production, Production, Post-Production and Distribution. Additionally, they post industry trade show news and updates of film and video related products and services.
TV and Film Scripts
- Daily Script Includes movie and tv scripts and screenplays in proper screenwriting format.
- Drew's Script-O-Rama Includes 10000+ free movie scripts, transcripts, screenplays, teleplays and more since 1995.
- Internet Movie Script Database (IMSDb) Includes HTML-formatted scripts indexed by film and tv genres. downloadable and free, with links to script vendors.
- Simply Scripts A database of hundreds of downloadable scripts, movie scripts, screenplays, and transcripts of current, classic and maybe a few soon-to-be-released movies, television, anime, unproduced and radio shows.
- TV Writing Includes US and UK drama, US comedy and animation and pilot scripts.
History & Technology
- Association of Moving Image Archivists is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media.
- Edison Motion Pictures See below film from the Internet Archive's Edison Motion Picture Collection Part I 1891-1898
- Media History Digital Library "Search, visualize and explore" this collection of classic periodicals in the public domain.
- Museum of Broadcast Communications Based in Chicago, this site includes The History of Television History and links to archival material.
- Museum of the Moving Image Based in Astoria, (Queens), NY, this museum "advances the understanding, enjoyment, and appreciation of the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media by presenting exhibitions, education programs, significant moving-image works, and interpretive programs, and collecting and preserving moving-image related artifacts."
- Origins of American Animation The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921.
Video, Feature Film and TV
- The Asian Cinema Blog Provides information and expands awareness of good Asian cinema.
- Asian Film Archive Was founded in January 2005 to preserve the rich film heritage of Singapore and Asian Cinema, to encourage scholarly research on film, and to promote a wider critical appreciation of this art form.
- Black Film Center/Archive The BFC/A's primary objectives are to promote scholarship on black film and to serve as an open resource for scholars, researchers, students, and the general public; to encourage creative film activity by independent black filmmakers; and to undertake and support research on the history, impact, theory, and aesthetics of black film traditions.
- FIlm Festivals.com A portal into the community of international and independent film and festivals.
- Films in the Public Domain A list of films that certain cited sources believe are in the public domain in the United States. Being in the public domain refers to cinematic, dramatic, literary, musical and artistic works that no government, organization, or individual owns, and as such is common property.
- Internet Movie Database (IMDB) Search by title, actor, director, writer, genre, language, plot, year, and more to get full credits, synopses, links, awards,locations, etc.
- Motion Pictures in the Library of Congress The Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress (M/B/RS) oversees one of the largest collections of motion pictures in the world. Acquired primarily through copyright deposit, exchange, gift and purchase, the collection spans the entire history of the cinema.
- National Screening Room Showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.
- Observations on Film Art David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's blog on cinema with links to books, video, essays, articles and book reports.
- Turner Classic Movies TCM's programming consists mainly of featured classic theatrically released feature films from the Turner Entertainment film library – which comprises films from Warner Bros. Pictures (covering films released before 1950) and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (covering films released before May 1986). TCM also has licensing deals with other Hollywood film studios as well as its Time Warner sister company Warner Bros. (which now controls the Turner Entertainment library and its own later films), and occasionally shows more recent films.
- U.S. National Film Registry In 1988, the (United States) Library of Congress established the National Film Preservation Board, to preserve film deemed "culturally, historically, or esthetically important". Each year, the board selects 25 films to add to the National Film Registry. See the complete list of those films here.