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    Action/Adventure

    Adventure Films
      Information about adventure and action films with some examples.

    Girls With Guns--Female Action Movies
      A list of movies and review of female action movies.

    Great Action/Adventure Movies
      A list of action/adventure movies with plot summaries and reviews.

    Hong Kong Action Movies
      "When searching the web for reviews of action movies by Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and John Woo it is hard to find in-depth, well-written reviews of their best work. Since many of the movies are not in English, there are few reviews written in English. Every week, fans can visit this topic to find new reviews of Hong Kong action movies."

    Hong Kong Movie Ring
      A Yahoo webring all about Hong Kong martial arts movies.

    Martial Arts Movies
      Here you can find martial arts movies and even an online tutorial on how to do martial art moves.

    Wikipedia Action Movies
      Wikipedia article about the action movie genre and its history.

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    Animation
    Aardman Animation
      Information about the company, a store, information about Wallace and Gromit, news, a studio tour, a guestbook, and FAQ's make up this site.

    Cartoon Brew
      News, comments and reviews of current animation.

    Nelvana
      A Canadian animation company responsible for familiar cartoons like Bob and Margaret, Babar, and Rupert. Their site has a kid's section, a grownup section, a gallery of animation art, a store, and information on how you can reach them.

    Non-Stick Looney Toon Page
      Information about Looney Toons. Inside the Termite Terrace, looney graphics, looney sounds, looney links, and Warner Brothers animation information can be found here.

    Origins of American Animation
      Information from the Library of Congress' American Memory project on the beginnings of American Animation.

    Pacific Data Images
      PDI is an animation studio whose specialty is computer-generated 3D animation. They have worked on hundreds of entertainment projects from feature films to commercials and other projects.

    A Parent's Guide to Anime
      "This page is meant as a resource for parents to aid them in finding anime that is suitable for children. Many parents are uncertain whether they should view anime before their children see it. "

    Toonopedia
      "Welcome to the world's first hypertext encyclopedia of toons — which will soon, I hope, come to be regarded as the Internet's most comprehensive source of information about the U.S. toon scene."

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    Catalogs
    Cinemaweb
      Cinemaweb is a resource for independent film and video. The menu page has links to Kino Video, Live Cinema Calendar, Sinister Cinema, Rhapsody Films, and Video Watchdog.

    Critic's Choice Video
      This online catalog features a video vault, DVD section, shopping bag, and a music section.

    Cult Film Site
      Offering hard to find titles and unusual movies. Movies are organized by genre including silents, comedies, documentaries, foreign films, dramas, and more.

    Facets Multimedia
      Facets Multi-Media, a nonprofit media arts and performing arts center, strives to provide the public with an extraordinary range of film, video and theater programs that would otherwise never be seen. Facets has a good selection rare films including silent and foreign films.

    Sinister Cinema On-Line
      An online video catalog featuring mystery and suspense, comedy, westerns, and hard to find titles.

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    Classics
    Classic Movie Links
      Links to classic movie information, a bulletin board, classic movie chat, and a classic movies guide.

    Classic Movies In the Spotlight
      Tributes to stars, a weekly newsletter, chat, trivia, games, reviews, and more.

    The Palace
      Extensive classic movie site featuring articles, new material, and a search engine.

    Turner Classic Movies
      The official web site for the channel. Includes information about classic film stars and directors, schedules, and links to other classic movie sites.

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    Comedy
    Marx Brothers Comedies
      Links to Marx Brothers memorabilia, Marx Brothers information, and information about other classic movie comedians.

    Movie Cliches List
      A hilarious list of cliches that appear again and again in the movies.

    Movie Comedy
      A list of links to comedy movie websites.

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    Databases
    Cuadra Movie-STAR
      "Movie-STAR is a database containing a history of the Academy Awards given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1927 to the present, including the 1998 Oscar awards announced March 21, 1999. It covers 6398 Oscar nominations and 1382 Oscar awards in major categories for 2532 motion pictures and 3996 individuals."

    Footage.net Search
      Search a number of databases for stock footage. Some of the databases included are: ABC News Video Source, American Archives of the Factual Film, British Pathe, Associated Press Television News, CNN ImageSource, Greenpeace Images, and many more.

    Fotosearch
      "Fotosearch Stock Photography allows users to search royalty free and rights managed stock photos and graphics from over 50 vendors, in addition to clipart, pictures, royalty free illustrations, royalty free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imegry. It allows you to find what you need, fast!"

    Internet Movie Database
      This database has information on over 150,000 movies. You can search this database by actor, director, writer, title, character name, or quote from a movie. It offers an index, Oscar® winners, reviews, and a tour for new users.

    Movie Review Query Engine
      "The Movie Review Query Engine is the largest online database for movie reviews. Founded in 1993 by Stewart Clamen, the continually growing site provides a searchable index of all published and available movie reviews. MRQE.com has added significant new features in keeping with its mission of delivering information and opinions to cinema fans worldwide. The re-launched MRQE aggregates reviews, news, interviews and other material associated to specific movies. MRQE also partners with leading movie blogs so that their content is collected in the MRQE database and searchable by any user."

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    Festivals
    Film Festivals and Awards
      This site consists of links to sites concerning international film festivals and a variety of film awards.

    Film Festivals Server
      Information on international film festivals, reviews, links, and a spotlight feature can be found at this site.

    Heartland Film Festival
      The Heartland Film Festival states its goals in its statement of purpose, "to recognize and honor filmmakers whose work explores the human journey by artistically expressing hope and respect for the positive values of life."

    Hollywood Black Film Festival
      "The Hollywood Black Film Festival™ , a non-profit organization, was established to enhance the careers of emerging and established filmmakers (directors and writers) from the U.S. and Canadian Black Diaspora through public exhibition and competition of their films, and to bring independent works by Black filmmakers to Southern California audiences."

    Slamdance Film Festival
      Another independent film festival featuring "Anarchy," an online short film competition.

    Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
      Information about the festival, entry forms, rules, publications, and information about current trends in documentary film making.

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    Magazines
    Boxoffice Online
      This online magazine features reviews of new movies, information about films that are currently in production, interviews, and other information.

    Entertainment Weekly
      "EW.com is the award-winning online extension of Entertainment Weekly magazine and the leading website about pop culture, presenting the Web's best daily news, reviews, commentary, and interactive features about every aspect of entertainment. Because you're already bombarded with hundreds of entertainment options everyday, our goal is to provide information and recommendations that help you make the best choices and enhance your engagement with movies, DVDs,television, music, books, and the Internet."

    Hollywood.com
      Here you can find out about Hollywood news, celebrities, see movie trailers, check showtime, TV listings and much more.

    Inside Film
      This is the online verson of the magazine Inside Film. Here you can read news and views, past articles, find information about screenwriting, and film festivals.

    Premiere Online
      The online version of the popular magazine, Premiere Online offers articles, reviews, and audience reaction.

    TV Guide Online
      Here you can find TV listings as well as news, movies (in theaters and on video), chat, and shopping.

    Variety.com
      This online entertainment news magazine features articles, reviews, a search, a calendar, and updates on current film festivals.

    Video Librarian
      Video Librarian is an online version of a magazine featuring reviews, news, back issues, distributors, and a searchable database.

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    Mystery/Suspense
    Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Suspense
      Information about Alfred Hitchcock's life and career, filmography, wit & wisdom, his cameos, essays, television series, and a search engine.

    Classic Noir
      "Classicnoir.com's mission is to create an online film community. We are committed to reviewing and selling the work of filmmakers of the Classic Noir era, a period of film history that is often misunderstood or overlooked."

    Film Noir
      Information about film noir and some great examples.

    Martin's Film Noir Page
      Links to the film noir bookstore, web articles, film noir actors/actresses, and links to other film noir pages.

    Mystery Movies.com
      Here you can find message boards, movie guides, a mailing list, TV and movie news, movie coupons, a store, links, and more.

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    Organizations
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
      This is the official site of the Oscars. Here you can find information about the Academy Awards, programs and exhibits, foundations, publications, fellowships, and the Margaret Herrick Library.

    American Film Institute
      The virtual home of the American Film Institute features news, a film and media directory, information about education and seminars, and information about film preservation.

    British Film Insititute
      Information about the British Film Institute, the National Film Theatre, Museum of the Moving Image, films, film festivals, and reasearch are highlights of this site.

    National Film Preservation Board and Registry
      Here you can find information about the National Film Registry and find out what titles are on the list.

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    Science Fiction
    The Astounding B Monster
      Information about science fiction, cult, and horror movies with top ten lists and links.

    Fiction Into Film
      A searchable list of films that have been made from books. The list includes science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Each movie has a link to the Internet Movie Database that provides full information about that movie.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Movies
      An alphabetical list of movies with dates and a short plot synopsis. More information can be found by following the links after each movie.

    Science Fiction Site
      Information about various aspects and media of science fiction. Lots of links to information, reviews, resources, and more.

    SciFi Wire
      "SCI FI Wire is hot news about movies, TV, games, books, top celebrities and more. Red-carpet photos. The newest movie trailers. Sneak peeks at upcoming TV shows and seasons. Exclusive on-set interviews. And with the team behind SCI FI Weekly, we're about to add all sorts of new content: Top 10 lists, exclusive Q&As, satire, dispatches from the front lines of science fiction, fantasy and the supernatural, funny stuff and a lot more."

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    Silents
    Keaton Celebration, Iola, Kansas
      "In 1992, the city of Iola, Kansas, seven miles east of Piqua, decided that it was time to start celebrating the life of their Kansas native son with an annual Buster Keaton Celebration. All celebrations have been hosted by the Bowlus Fine Arts Center of Iola. Past celebrations have included insights into Buster's work by such notibles as Eleanor Keaton, David Shepard, Steve Allen, Kevin Brownlow and Leonard Maltin. These and other Keaton experts have mixed with fans in this pleasant, small-town atmosphere. Celebrations occur on the last weekend of September. We celebrate the life of Buster Keaton with film, lecture, music and sharing."

    Louise Brooks Society
      "This website is dedicated to the life & times of the silent film star Louise Brooks (1906 - 1985). These pages contain a digital archive of articles, interviews and ephemera (including much vintage material), a picture gallery, filmography, commentary, links and contributions from fans around the world. This site also serves as home to the Louise Brooks Society - the world's largest silent film fan club."

    Silent Movies
      Links to pages of information about silent movies, silent movie stars, silent movie trailers and more.

    Silent Movies

      Information about silent movies, music for silent movies, preservation and loss plus links.

    Silents Are Golden
      This site has information about silent movie screening, vintage movie reviews, articles and essays on the silent era, recommended reading, silent movies on video and much more.


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    Miscellaneous
    All Movie Guide
      Here you can search for movies and information. This site features a box office section, a film finder, people finder, plot finder, movie maps, a glossary and a quick browse feature.

    At The Movies.com
      "Revisit over 5000 movies reviewed by the most famous critics in the world."

    Black Film Center/Archive
      The archive has films and related materials by and about African Americans. This site includes a list of links to African American and film related Internet resources.

    Box Office Mojo
      "Box Office Mojo is an online movie publication and box office reporting service. Our purpose is to illuminate the movies through the integration of art and business. Based in Burbank, California, we produce analysis, reviews, interviews and the most comprehensive box office tracking available online."

    Cinema Sites
      Links to a long list of cinema sites, databases, reviews, previews, movie and TV studios, movie screenings, fan pages, games and trivia, animation, film and TV magazines, news, media contacts, organizations and guilds, festivals, and more.

    Class Act
      Here you can find information about your favorite musicals, musical actors and acctresses, academy awards, and much more.

    Cowboy Pals
      Information on old western movies and TV series. Links to western film festivals, heroes and horses, tribute pages, sons of the pioneers, western radio classics, images, and more.

    The Digital Bits
      Here you can find information about the newest DVD's, reviews, a rumor mill and discuss new and upcoming DVD releases.

    Drew's Script-O-Rama
      Here you can find information about and links to scripts from television, major feature films, anime movies, feature film transcripts, and screenwriters on the Internet.

    Film Noir, Suspense and Classic Action Movies
      Links and information about classic movies.

    Fipresci: The International Federation of Film Critics
      "In 1925 some film journalists from Paris and Brussels founded a Professional Association of the Film Press. Soon after, the Belgium journalists took the initiative in making contact with others in foreign countries. The idea of an International Federation of Film Press took shape in Paris, during the Congress of Cinema." Information about foreign films.

    The Greatest Films
      The Greatest Films features a search engine, great silents, references, award goofs, movie posters, film history, and much more.

    Hollywood Movies
      Here you can find information about action/adventure movies, see new trailers and find out about many types of action movies.

    Indie Wire.com
      "Celebrating its tenth anniversary, indieWIRE is the leading news, information, and social networking site for the international independent film community, including comprehensive coverage of indie, documentary and foreign language films, as well industry news, film festival reports, filmmaker interviews, and movie reviews. Its website (http://www.indiewire.com) includes special sections for high-profile film festivals, the new indieLOOP community site, filmmaker and industry weblogs, as well as resources and tools for emerging and established filmmakers."

    Movie Collection - Internet Moving Images Archive
      "This collection contains movies that the Prelinger Archives has digitized and donated to the Internet Archive. The films focus mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century. They are mostly 'ephemeral films' made between 1927 and 1987, often educational and propaganda films shown in schools and to army personnel, promotions of products or companies, and news features."

    Movie Mom
      A family friendly guide to movies in theaters and on video.

    Movie Musicals: From Stage to Screen
      Information about some more recent musicals that have become movies.

    Movie Web
      Preview the newest movies before they are shown in theaters by downloading the trailer, accessing information about the cast and story, and view movie posters here.

    Zane Grey Society
      A list of movies made from Zane Grey Books.

    Zap 2 It
      This site lets you choose which theaters you are interested in, which local publications you want to use to read reviews, then shows you what's playing at your "favorite" theaters and offers you information in the form of movie news, movie reviews and more.

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