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Movies

All-Movie Guide

Search for movies by actor, title, country of origin, genre, decade of production, "mood", and more.

GreatMovies

Collection of classic and foreign movie reviews by Roger Ebert, well known Chicago Sun Times and television film reviewer.

Internet Movie Database

Filmography of movies, actors, directors, producers, genres, etc. Includes supplemental databases including movie reviews, quotations, industry statistics, historic movie events, movie glossary, and more.

Movie Review Query Engine

Search engine with links to commercial and personal movie review sites. Performs searches on all types of films: from big-budget Hollywood blockbusters to smaller independent fare, upcoming releases to the classics of cinema. Many reviews date back to the 1980s.

MovieLens

Free, personalized movie recommendation service using collaborative filtering technology. Tell the database your opinions on what you've seen and it finds titles (both current and older) it calculates you will enjoy. Provided by the GroupLens Research Group at the University of Minnesota. Requires brief registration.

TV Guide Online - Movies

Reviews for movies on TV, on video, and in theaters. Searchable movie database of the cast, credits, and reviews for more than 40,000 movies (from The Motion Picture Guide, Cinebooks' 23-volume reference landmark, and Ephraim Katz's comprehensive Film Encyclopedia). Plus filmographies for thousands of actors and other filmmakers.

Television

Emmy Awards

Search all of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences records from the first contest in 1949 to the most recent last year. Search by year, category, nominee, program, and network.

Late Show with David Letterman: Top Ten

David Letterman's Top Ten Lists back to 1993. Searchable by date or by keyword. Or browse archive by date.

Television Without Pity

Commentary, recaps of episodes, and online forums for a wide variety of television shows. You must register to post messages on the forums. Site also provides email alerts for new stories about your favorite shows, if you sign up.

TV Guide Online: Your TV Listings

TV Guide listings for hundreds of cable stations around the country. Use either free registration or browse listings by ZIP Code. Listings include programming for the next two weeks.

Zap2It.com

Comprehensive online television site. Features TV News Daily; TV Listings; and comprehensive information on shows, stars, and networks and stations (local and national). Division of Tribune Media Services.

Music

All-Music Guide

AMG (All-Music Guide and All-Movie Guide) is an ongoing project to review and rate all music (whether in-print CDs or out-of-print on vinyl) and list (and rate) all feature movies and provide their credits and related information. Includes rock & roll, jazz, folk, blues, country, rap, zydeco, and more. Search by album, artist, and song title or browse by style.

DW3 Classical Music Resources

This sizable, well-organized metasite for classical music resources is Hosted by the Duke University Music Library. Sections include Composer Homepages, Chronologies and Necrologies, National and Regionally Oriented Pages, Organizations and Centers for Scholarly Research, Electronic Journals and Newsletters, Genre-Specific Pages, and Databases.

Lycos MP3 Search Engine

Index to over 500,000 MP3 compressed digital audio files. Search by artist or song name.

mojam

A large and frequently updated database of live music shows all over the world, though strongest on the US.

Q4music.com

Online music magazine with reviews of music releases. Includes a database of over 20,000 reviews dating back as early as 1987. Searchable by artist and title.

Ticketmaster

Find out who's playing where. Search able by category, state, or text.