Film & Media Studies: Web Resources

This library contains millions of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons, commercials and concerts. Be sure to check out the included Prelinger Archives, which contains approximately 5,000 digitized and videotape titles and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere.

A large collection of classic movies now in the public domain.

Here you can legally download full-length feature films that are in the public domain for free.

The NFB is an award-winning online screening room, featuring over 2,000 films, animations, excerpts, trailers and interactive works.

The BFI National Archive YouTube channel presents hundreds of free films, plus expert commentary and interviews.

Hundreds of classic films, ranging from Action to Westerns and even old cinema shorts and news reels.

For more recent mainstream films, check out Crackle! It's a multi-platform video entertainment network and studio that distributes full length, uncut, movies, TV shows and original programming in our users’ favorite genres – like comedy, action, crime, horror, Sci-Fi, and thriller. Features films produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The New York State Archives preserves the largest collection of film scripts in the world. Ranges from 1921-1965.

Note: This tool allows you to find scripts but does not give you online access; you must submit an application to have the scripts printed and sent to you.

Hundreds of full movie scripts and screenplays, multiple drafts if available, some TV scripts.Text (.txt) format for easy importing, links to .pdf format

HTML scripts and transcripts of film, television, anime. Scripts in .pdf, .html, or .doc formats, with few scripts zipped

Hundreds of movie scripts to read or download, .html format

Hundreds of downloadable movie, radio and TV scripts, transcripts, and screeplays in .txt, .pdf, or .zip formats

2,000+ full movie scripts in .txt format. Limited TV and radio scripts

Movies and Films Database - Movie Search, Guide, Recommendations, and Reviews.

MDB is a free online database of information about films. View external reviews from critics by selecting the link for Critic Reviews in the Reviews section for each film.

Provides access to critical reviews from a variety of sources and grades each film by combining scores from individual critics.

MRQE.com is the Internet’s largest database of movie reviews for over 100,000 titles. The continually growing site provides a searchable index of all published and available reviews, news, interviews, and other materials associated with specific movies.

Named after the longtime film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, this site calls itself "the world’s preeminent destination for movie criticism, commentary".

Provides summaries of film reviews by averaging the scores given by different reviewers. Many of the reviews come from major media outlets.