Subject Guide to French, German & Italian Cinemas: Italian Cinema

Sample of Italian Film @ the MDC

Media That Matters
Short films that showcase topics of interest from all over world.
World Digital Library
Provides access to digitized items from all over the world including films.
The Film Foundation's World Cinema Project
Restored films from films all over the world made available through streaming content.

Film Index International
A major information resource for entertainment films, directors and key players produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute. With a scholarly, inclusive approach to all areas of film studies - from the very first silent movies, to art house classics and current cinema - Film Index International provides international coverage, indexing films from over 170 countries.
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IMBD The Internet Movie Database
Fairly comprehensive source for information about cinema and television

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus
Created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), the database indexes more than 500,000 articles from 340 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
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Criterion Collection / Janus Films / DEFA

CRITERION ON DEMAND contemporary and classic studio films

The Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
Journal devoted to Italian films. (in English)
Adaptation
An international forum focused on literature on screen.

Filmakers Library Online
Watch online - diverse collection of 1000+ issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world. Subjects include but are not limited to: African Studies, African-American Studies, Agriculture, American Studies, Anthropology, Art, Biology, Business, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Cultural Studies, Drama, Education, Environmental Studies, Literature, Film, Geography, Medicine, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

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Films on Demand Video Collection
Watch thousands of full length documentaries from Films Media Group's Master Academic Collection online. Subject areas include: Humanities & Social Sciences, Science, Business & Economics, and Health. The collections are dynamic.

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Cineaste
Includes articles, interviews, film, DVD and books about film reviews.
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
International journal
Wide Angle
Taking an in-depth look that international film this journal offers illustrated articles, interviews with filmmakers and reviews of film books.

Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television
Journal of The International Association for Media and History

Docuseek
Stream hundreds of full-length documentaries.
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MEF Digital
Watch full length films online from this multi-disciplinary collection of documentary and educational features with a focus on societies, politics, culture and mass media in America.

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