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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Adult Film Database, AlloCine, AllRovi, Animator.ru, BFI Film & TV Database, Big Cartoon DataBase, Box Office Mojo, Box Office Prophets, Christian Film Database, Cinema and Science, Cinenacional.com, Complete Index to World Film, Critical Metrics, Czech Movie Heaven, DBCult Film Institute, Douban, Elonet, Everyone's a Critic, Filmarchives online, FilmCrave, Filmfront, Filmweb, FindAnyFilm.com, Flickchart, Hancinema, Hong Kong Cinemagic, Hong Kong Movie DataBase, Internet Adult Film Database, Internet Movie Database, Japanese Movie Database, Jinni (search engine), Korean Movie Database, Little Golden Guy, Metacritic, MovieLens, Movie Genome, Movie Review Query Engine, PORT.hu, Swedish Film Database, TopTenReviews. Excerpt: The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to films, television programs, and video games. This includes actors, production crew personnel, and fictional characters featured in these three visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million unique users each month and a solid and rapidly growing mobile presence. IMDb was launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com. As of March 22, 2013, IMDb had 2,467,314 titles (includes episodes) and 5,132,299 personalities in its database, as well as 42 million registered users. The website has an Alexa rank of 48. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and professional computer programmer Col Needham entitled "Those Eyes," about actresses with beautiful eyes. Others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started a (male) "Actors List," while Dave Knight began a "Directors List," and Andy Krieg took over "THE LIST," which would later be renamed the "Actress List." Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, but soon retired people were added, so Needham started what was then (but did not remain) a separate "Dead Actors/Actresses List." The goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17, 1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, and thus the database that would become the IMDb was born. At the time, it was known as the "rec.arts.movies movie database," but by 1993 had been moved out of the Usenet group as an independent website underwritten and controlled by Needham and personal followers. Other website users were invited to contribute data which they m
