Film Resources at Yale & Beyond
Streaming Video
Yale Sites
- Yale University Library: Streaming Video Guide
- Kanopy at Yale, including about 600 titles from the Criterion Collection
- Alexander Street, including: Academic Video Online, Asian Film Online, LGBT Studies in Video, New World Cinema, Silent Film Online
- Films on Demand
- Docuseek3
- Swank Digital Campus, including subscription to Swank's "Top 1000" films
- Yale on YouTube: Yale University videos of courses, interviews, seminars, and campus tours
Non-Yale Sites
- British Pathé: newsreels on YouTube
- FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives): Selected films from almost 100 archives
- JustWatch: Find streaming sources for thousands of films (note: most involve rentals). It is not necessary to log in or sign up.
- Reelgood: Find streaming sources for thousands of films (note: most involve rentals). It is not necessary to log in or sign up.
- Independent Lens: PBS's documentary "Film Festival in Your Living Room"
- LinkTV: "global and national news, uncompromising documentaries, and diverse cultural programs . . ."
- National Film Board of Canada: on-line Screening Room of trailers, clips and full-length film
- Origins of American Animation: early American animation represented by 21 animated films and 2 fragments, spanning 1900 to 1921.
- Yale Film Archive Preserved Films on Vimeo: Video transfers of films preserved on film from original materials in the collection of the Yale Film Archive
Research Guides, Databases, Newspapers, and Catalogs
- Yale Library Film Studies Research Guide
- American Silent Feature Film Database: searchable information on almost 11,000 feature films
- BFI Screenonline: guide to Britain's film and television history
- Cinema and Media Studies: Oxford Bibliographies
- DH Cinema Projects: more than 50 film-focused digital humanities projects
- IMDb: Internet Movie Database
- National Film Registry: 1989-2022
- New York Times: 1923-2018 (search for film reviews)
- Variety: 1905-2000 (search for film reviews and obits)
Screenplays
- Daily Script
- Drew's Script-o-rama
- Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street)
- Internet Movie Screenplay Database
Yale Departments
- Film and Media Studies Program
- Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities
- Classroom Technology & Event Services
Yale Production Resources
Screenings and Events
- Yale Arts Calendar
- Yale Film Archive on Facebook
- Yale Film Archive Public Screenings
- Treasures from the Yale Film Archive
- Indie Lens Pop-Up
- Films at the Whitney
- New Haven Documentary Film Festival
- Cinestudio: Hartford, CT
- Real Art Ways: Hartford, CT
- MoMA Film Series: New York City
- Film Forum: New York City
- The Metrograph: New York City
- Film at Lincoln Center: New York City
- Anthology Film Archives: New York City
- Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn
- Alamo Drafthouse Yonkers
Associations, Societies, and Archives
- FIAF: International Federation of Film Archives
- AMIA: Association of Moving Image Archivists
- National Film Preservation Board: Public Moving Image Archives & Research Centers
- Yale in Hollywood: Association of Yalies in movies and television
Articles, Blogs, and Websites
- American Widescreen Museum: articles on history and technical specifications of widescreen formats
- Art of the Title: main titles from feature films
- Cinema Scope: "expanding the frame on international cinema"
- David Bordwell: essays by one of the world's most important film scholars
- David Bordwell: video lecture on CinemaScope
- DVD Beaver: detailed technical evaluations of new DVDs
- Film Quarterly: selections from the current issue; web exclusives
- Filmmaker: the magazine of independent film, published by IFP
- Fred Camper: essays by a leading authority on the avant-garde
- Hitchcock-Truffaut tapes: 1962 interviews that were the basis of Truffaut's book
- In70mm.com: Informative and entertaining information about 70mm
- J. Hoberman: reviews and articles by one of our best critics/historians
- Letterboxd: social networking site that provides, among many features, a treasure trove of articles, lists, and reviews that document the rich history of film preservation, education, and appreciation at Yale.
- Oscars.org: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Paul Schrader: screenwriter-director-critic Paul Schrader's articles and reviews
- Roger Ebert: reviews by the late Chicago Sun-Times critic and colleagues
- Senses of Cinema: "an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema"
- Silent Era: reviews of silent films on DVD and Blu-ray; news about silent film events
- Sight and Sound Magazine: published by the British Film Institute
- Tangemania: Yale Professor Aaron Gerow's Japanese Film Page
- Variety: the major source of information on the film industry; film reviews
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