Film & Media Studies
Gateways
- Academic Info: Film Studies Links & General Resources
- BUBL: Film Studies (links ceased to be updated from April 2011)
- Europeana (a portal providing access to over 4 million digital items)
- Film Links Gateway (via the BFI)
- Intute: Film studies (links ceased to be updated from July 2011)
- Intute: Communication and media studies (links ceased to be updated from July 2011)
- Moving Image Gateway (via the BUFVC)
- Performing Arts (via the AHDS)
- Visual Arts (via the AHDS)
- Voice of the Shuttle: Media Studies
Organisations
- American Film Institute
- BBC
- Britfilms.com
- British Board of Film Classification
- British Film Commission
- British Film Institute; its library; collections; periodicals holdings
- British Pathe
- British Universities Film and Video Council and their Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage and Newsreel Database
- European Audiovisual Observatory and their LUMIERE database (admissions information for films released in Europe)
- FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) (US media watch group highlighting media bias and censorship)
- Film Distributors' Association (FDA)
- Film London
- Film Noir Foundation (devoted to America's noir heritage; includes video archives of interviews with key noir actors and directors)
- International Documentary Association
- International Federation of Film Archives
- ITN Archive
- Jewish Film Archive
- London Jewish Cultural Centre: Film Archive
- National Archives (Public Information Films online)
- National Film Board of Canada
- National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
- Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (allows free downloads of its publications and working papers)
- Royal Television Society
Online journals and books
- Amsterdam University Press Digital Repository
- Film-Philosophy
- Film Studies for Free (links to open access e-books)
- Offscreen
- Online Books Page (hosted by the University of Pennsylvania)
- Scope : an online journal of film studies
- Senses of Cinema
- Sparknotes (free to access online study guides; there is a charge for downloading the printable pdfs)
- University of California Press E-Books Collection
Open access repositories
Film and television history
- Arts on Film Archive (hosted by the University of Westminster)
- BIRTH Television Archive
- Early cinema
- Film Archive Forum (UK public sector moving image archives)
- Moving History (a guide to UK film and TV public archives, includes some films available online)
- Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers (worldwide)
- Scottish Screen Archive (over 100 years of Scottish history on film and video)
- University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) (includes digitised film-related items)
- Who's Who of Victorian cinema
Other
- Alfred Hitchcock Wiki
- arts-humanities.net (a guide to digital arts and humanities projects)
- blinkbox (features free to download feature films)
- Britmovie.co.uk
- Brunel University cult film archive
- Creative Archive Licence: BBC; BFI ; Open University (free to download video clips)
- David Bordwell's website on cinema
- Documentary Films.NET
- Documentary Site
- European Archive (includes British Public Information films)
- Film literature index
- FilmSound.org
- Guide to documentary films (courtesy of Film & History)
- iFilm connections: Asia and Pacific
- Internet archive: moving images (features free to download feature films)
- IMDb : Internet movie database
- IMSDb: Internet movie script database
- liketelevision (features free to download feature films and tv programmes)
- Media and communications studies (hosted by the University of Aberystwyth)
- Movie Review Query Engine
- Newsfilm online
- Open video project (downloadable moving images)
- Radio Research Database (hosted by the BUFVC on behalf of Bournemouth University)
- Satyajit Ray film and study collection
- Sparknotes: Film
