Film Studies
This guide provides a general introduction to information resources for Film Studies in Edinburgh University Libraries.
Screen scripts / screen plays
- BUFVC Screen Plays : The Theatre Plays on British Television Database Screen Plays documents British television productions of plays that were originally written for the theatre. Most of these productions were made especially for television, but a significant number were originally theatre productions. Screen Plays also offers information on the audiovisual and print sources that are known to exist for each of these productions:
- Daily Script a collection of movie scripts and screenplays to serve as a resource for writers and actors and those who simply enjoy reading movie scripts.
- Screenplays for You free movie scripts and screenplays
- Scripts.com A huge collection of movie scripts, screenplays and transcripts from famous and not-so-famous screen writers from around the world — collaboratively published by amateur script writers and contributing editors.
- Script Savant Resources for scriptwriters
- Scripts on Screen - a movie script search engine A movie script search engine, with over 8,500 films indexed from 300+ sites
- 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.
Organisations, archives, and other databases
- BFI Player BFI Player is an online resource which offers a unique window on Britain’s changing political, economic and social landscape in the age of film and television. 1000 hours of non-fiction moving image titles from 1900 - 2005, alongside 8000 pages of related documents.
- BFI Player - free See shorts and features, showing the best from the BFI, national and regional archives - including 120 years of Britain on film
- China National Film Museum Can switch to the English interface
- Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA) CIFA is dedicated to the preservation of and access to Chinese independent film culture. It holds a large and rare collection of films and footage, their associated material culture, existing publications on Chinese independent cinema in both English and Chinese, and oral history material. Created and published by Newcastle University.
- Creative Scotland for Scotland’s arts, screen and creative industries
- EarlyCinema Introduction to the first decade of motion pictures
- Filmarchives online film archives from all over Europe
- First Nation Films Distributes award-winning television documentary films for, by and about indigenous peoples
- PLAT -- ARCHIVO FÍLMICO ONLINE Free access to over 150 Spanish films online
- ScreenSite Bibliographies, archives and discussion groups
- Spanish and Latin American Films Instituto Cervantes Library in London blog
Film and TV copyright licensing agencies in the UK
DVD / film streaming guides and catalogues
- AFI Catalog of Feature Films Catalogue of American feature films
- Artfilms Catalogue of art films in DVD and streaming from all over the world. Part of Bloomsbury Digital Resources, Artfilms offers more than 2000 films from top artists and independent filmmakers.
- Eureka Entertainment DVD catalogue with reviews of DVD releases
- IMDB A searchable database of millions of movies, TV and entertainment programs and cast and crew members.
- Reelgood An extensive streaming guide in the US and UK. Browse through TV series and movie and sort by title, release year, genre, IMDB rating, and see where to watch it.
- World Online Cinema DVDs German, French, Spanish, World Cinema dvds and resources
Open access online journals
- East European Film Bulletin A journalistic and literary project dedicated to the criticism of films related to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
- Scope An online journal of fiom and television studies
- Senses of Cinema An online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema