The Silver Screen Oasis

The following are some good, general interest sites to help our members and visitors with film research.


IMDb or The Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/

TCM Database:
http://www.tcmdb.com/index.jsp

The TCM Suggest a Movie link:
http://www.tcm.com/suggestamovie/index/

American Film Institute:
http://www.afi.com/

The Academy of Motions Pictures Arts and Sciences
http://www.oscars.org/

The Margaret Herrick Library:
http://www.oscars.org/mhl/

The Academy Awards® Winners and History:
http://www.filmsite.org/oscars30.html

British Film Institute:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/

George Eastman House:
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/

FilmSite.org
http://www.filmsite.org/

We need to add two more:

The Media History Digital Library
http://mediahistoryproject.org/collections/

and its search engine, Lantern
http://lantern.mediahist.org/

Probably the best source for film-related books and magazines on the Web.

Have used this fine site for many years to become more informed about Classic Hollywood films. His writing-style (Tim Dirks) is clear and concise with no highbrow pretense on his part.

G.C.