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  • National Film Board of Canada  
    The National Film Board of Canada’s website has streaming video of more than 700 films, trailers, and clips for free viewing. The collection is easy to browse and includes animation, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental films, in French and English. The Playlists section consists of annotated viewing lists from invited film experts.
  • National Film Preservation Foundation  
    Since created by Congress in 1996, the National Film Preservation Foundation has given preservation grants to 176 institutions across 45 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and has helped save more than 1,322 films and footage collections. The foundation also publish DVDs and guides and support other national preservation and access projects.
  • National Public Broadcasting Libraries at the University of Maryland  
    Browse through finding aids for the many specialized collections in the physical archive.
  • Neorealisme (BiFi)  
    BiFi's online exhibition on Italian Neorealism, by Pierre Sorlin. Features images, film clips, bibliographies, and a wealth of information. In French.
  • Newsfilm Library (University of South Carolina)  
    A complete, searchable index of everything in the Fox Movietone News and Local Television News collections, as well as selected film clips (Quicktime format) available online.
  • Northeast Historic Film Archive  
    A searchable list of what's available at the physical archive in Bucksport, Maine.
  • Nostalghia.com: An Andrei Tarkovsky Information Site  
    Run by two cinephile scientists with significant input from film scholars, this site includes still images, quotations from articles and interviews, and a bibliography. There are two sections here that feature previously unpublished work: Lars Olof-Lothwall's photographs, and an original translation of selections from Tarkovsky's diary.
  • Offscreen  
    This Canadian journal features interviews, festival coverage, and essays on directors, Asian cinema, European cinema, documentaries and other topics. Offscreen and its French language sister journal Hors Champ have been online since 1997.
  • Origins of American Animation (Library of Congress)  
    This website, maintained by the Library of Congress, offers 21 animated films and two fragments from the early days of American animation. Included are examples of clay, puppet, and cutout animation, as well as pen drawings, in a variety of formats for both streaming and download.
  • Oz Film: Australian Film  
    Features a comprehensive bibliography of Australian cinema, as well as numerous articles.
  • Ozu Yasujiro  
    This website features an extensive filmography with detailed synopses, as well as scanned primary-source material in English and Japanese. Edited by Nick Wrigley from Masters of Cinema.
  • P.O.V.   Peer Reviewed
    P.O.V. is a peer-reviewed online journal published biannually. The articles in each issue reflect a common theme, and recent issues have covered Danish television, the western, and short fiction films.
  • Researcher's Guide Online  
    Searchable index of film, television, radio, and related document collections in the UK.
  • Robert Bresson  
    This website devoted to the French director features a print bibliography, as well as articles and an extensive gallery of film posters. Edited by Doug Cummings and Trond S Trondsen for Masters of Cinema.
  • Russian Film Archives  
    A website that represents the Russian State Film and Photo Archive in Krasnogorsk, the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, and various other institutions of the Russian government.
  • Satyajit Ray  
    Site about the director from Maanvi Media, a Bombay-based media company, which has been augmented by Ray fans for years. The "Books and Videos" section has a bibliography with information on how to find each book.
  • Satyajit Ray Collection at UC-Santa Cruz  
    A wealth of information about Ray, including a filmography, biography, and two extensive bibliographies. Founded by Dilip Basu, a Ray scholar who has organized many retrospectives, the site is also host to a number of articles by Basu and other scholars, as well as digitized images from Ray's own sketchbook. The collection section allows you to search the items in the physical archive, which is in Santa Cruz, California.
  • Scottish Screen  
    Scottish Screen is the official website of Scotland's national screen agency, designed to develop "all aspects of screen culture and industry across the country."
  • Scottish Screen Archives  
    While its primary purpose is to provide an online catalog of films in the Scottish Screen Archives collection, this website also offers over a thousand clips extracted from its holdings. In addition to these clips, each listing includes a detailed description. Users may browse the films and television programs in the archives' holdings by place, subject, biography, or decade.
  • Screening the Past   Peer Reviewed
    Screening the Past is a peer-reviewed online journal hosted by Latrobe University in Australia. Its primary subjects are the study of film history, the relationship between media and social history, and the history of critical thought on cinema.