Help - Search fields

• Keyword
• Film title
• Director
• Character names
• Cast
• Crew
• Based on
• Release Year
• Country
• Subject
• Songs
• Genre
• Other information

Keyword

The Keyword field searches for any word or phrase contained in the fields shown on the Advanced search page. To enter terms into the search box, type your search terms directly into the Keyword search box. Search terms may consist of either single words or phrases. Example:

Film title

Use the Film title field to search for any word or phrase contained in the title of a film. The Title field also searches alternate film titles, such as foreign language titles or working titles.Example:

The browse for Film title lists the full film title for each film contained in the site. This is useful if you want to see an alphabetical list of film titles. If you want to browse the list of ALL words used in the film titles, click the "all film title keywords" link.

Director

Use the Director field to search for films with a particular director's name. Example:

Character names

The Character names field will limit a search to records containing a particular character name. Example:

Character names are searchable only in the non-inverted form. In other words, a search for "Golightly, Holly" will not produce any results.

Cast

The Cast field will search for records containing particular cast member names. Example:

Crew

The Crew field searches for people involved in production roles, such as makeup, sound or color. Example:

Use the browse list to narrow your options to a particular crew role. The names are in their inverted and non-inverted form in the browse list.

Note: this search also retrieves records where the name appears in the 'Note' field (so for example it will retrieve films that a director was meant to work on, or did work on but was not credited). For example, a search for Sergio Leone retrieves the film record for Ben Hur (1959) and in the Note field we see that 'Several modern sources state that future Italian Spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone worked on the film'. Please note that hit highlighting will not appear in the Note section in this search.

Based on

This field will limit your search to the name of a book, play, poem or it's author that the film was based on. Example:

Release year

The date range available is 1893-1970. Use the Release year field to limit your search to films released during a specific year or a range of years. The default values appearing in the search boxes represent the earliest (1893) and most recent year (1970) of released films in the site. Day and month are not searchable as search criteria in this field.

The Year field can be searched in two ways. To search on a range of years, enter the relevant year values into the from and to boxes. Example:

To search within a single year, enter the same year in the from and to boxes. Example:

Country

The Country field will limit a search to films that originate in a particular country. Example:

Most films will be USA only. Some films have more than one country associated with them.

Subject

The Subject field searches on both Principal subjects and Additional subjects. Example:

Principal subjects includes major headings that outline the most important elements of the film, such as aspects of the main character, the main theme(s) of the film, and major geographical locations. Additional subjects include characters, places or themes that are not as central to the film as the Principal subject headings.

Songs

In the Songs field you can search for films containing particular songs, singers, and instrumentals used in the film. Example:

Genre

This field searches the Principal and Additional genres assigned to each film. Example:

Click genre notes on the Advanced search page for explanation of the genres assigned to films.

Other information

This field searches additional information related to a film that is not otherwise categorised in the above fields, such as language, physical properties, copyright information, distribution company, production company and premiere information. Example: