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  • History on/and/in Film  
    This website reproduces papers delivered at the Third Australian History and Film Conference, held in Perth in 1985. These essays, many by well-known scholars, represent a diverse array of approaches to the study of film and history.
  • Hollywood Reporter   Paid Subscription Required
    Website of the daily Hollywood trade paper, with searchable archives dating back to 1950.
  • Hong Kong Film Archive Search  
    Search in English for items that are available in the physical collection, including books, films, and audio recordings. Also see http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/english/eindex.html to download Chinese language PDFs of complete Hong Kong filmographies and information on Cantonese operatic films.
  • iFilm Connections: Asia & Pacific  
    Established in 1995, this site features a continuous online film festival with free streaming of feature-length independent films from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Other resources include profiles and filmographies of filmmakers and overviews of national or regional cinemas.
  • Images: A Journal of Film and Popular Culture  
    Images is an online film journal published quarterly. In addition to the quarterly features, new movie reviews are published every week.
  • In Media Res   Peer Reviewed
    In Media Res is dedicated to experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship. Each weekday, a different scholar curates a 30-second to 3-minute video clip/visual image slideshow accompanied by a 300 to 350-word impressionistic response.
  • Independent Television Programme Information   Paid Subscription Required
    Database of UK television listings from 1955 through 1985. Available only to British students.
  • Ingmar Bergman Face to Face  
    A comprehensive source for information about Bergman's films, theatrical work, and writings, published by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation in Sweden. The site contains a detailed filmography, which features a synopsis, still images, interviews, and writings about each film, as well as a bibliography of Bergman's own writing. In English and Swedish.
  • Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904  
    A collection of 21 actuality films of the Westinghouse Works factories in 1904. The website, hosted by the Library of Congress, includes a history of Westinghouse Works and a timeline for the company and its founder.
  • International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees   Paid Subscription Required
    IATSE represents craftspeople in the theatrical, motion picture, and television industries. The website provides basic information about the union and its history.
  • International Association for Media and History   Peer Reviewed
    The International Association for Media and History is an organization of scholars "dedicated to historical inquiry into film, radio, television, and related media." The website provides information on current publications by members as well as volume information on the association's journal The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
  • International Documentary Association  
    The official website of the International Documentary Association includes a frequently updated calendar section of upcoming festival and retrospective screenings. The website also offers some online content from the association's magazine, Documentary.
  • International Federation of Film Archives   Peer Reviewed
    FIAF is an international association of film archives dedicated to the preservation of the moving image. Although the actual catalog of associated-archival holdings is only available to paying users, the website also hosts a variety of free information pertaining to film preservation, most notably fully downloadable back issues of the Journal of Film Preservation.
  • International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI)  
    The website includes articles from Undercurrent (the Federation's film magazine) and Cinemas of the South (texts on world cinema), as well as festival reports and transcriptions of conferences, readings, and discussions.
  • International Index to the Performing Arts   Paid Subscription Required Peer Reviewed
    An index of scholarly performing-arts periodicals.
  • International Motion Picture Almanac  
    Search WorldCat for local library holdings of this periodical almanac of industry information.
  • Internet Archive: Cinemocracy  
    Thirteen propaganda films, many by top documentary filmmakers, commissioned by the U.S. government during World War II.
  • Internet Archive: Feature Films  
    A collection of almost 900 public-domain feature films, including some classic silent films by Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett.
  • Internet Archive: German Cinema Collection  
    This section of the Internet Archive features 51 works of "other cinema" by the German filmmaker Lutz Mommartz.
  • Internet Archive: Movie Trailers  
    A collection of 103 movie trailers.