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American Movie Classics: Classic movies and their stars

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Coming Attractions: The Director's Cut, Complete Film Listings, Film Archives, and Film Scoop

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FindaVideo: Hundreds of movie videos are reviewed. When you find a video you're interested in you can add it to your very own online list and print it out to take it to your video store

Hollywood Online - Hurray for Hollywood: Previews, reviews, video clips, sound bites, trailers, and more about the latest movies coming to a theater near you

Internet Movie Database: A database of more than 150,000 movies - SEARCHABLE by keyword

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Greatest Films of All Times

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...in 1889 Thomas Edison created the first motion picture machine? It was called the "kinetoscope" and was used until the year 1896.
...even though Thomas Edison is credited with creating the first motion picture machine, his assistant, William K.L. Dickson did most of the work?
...only one person at a time could view a moving picture with the kinetoscope?
...the French inventors, Louis and August Lumiere, were the first people to introduce the cinematography machine? This machine allowed more than one person to view motion pictures.
...Edwin S. Porter is often called the "father of story film?"
...Porter's film, The Great Train Robbery was the first major American film? It lasted eight minutes and was produced in 1903.
...the success of The Great Train Robbery led to the beginning of the creation of small theaters, called nickelodeons?
...silent films were the only films available until 1926 when Warner Brothers studios introduced the first sound film?
...Warner Brothers also released the first "talking" picture in 1927, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson?
...in 1953, the Twentieth Century-Fox studio introduced audiences to a wide screen version of a movie? This first movie to be shown on the wide screen was The Robe.
...in 1953, the first 3-D film, The House of Wax, was introduced? 3-D films never became popular.
...The most popular films of the 1970s and 1980s were The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Superman (1978) and its sequel films, E.T. (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (19840) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Batman (1989) and its sequel films, Star Trek (1979) and its sequel films, Star Wars (1977) and its sequel films?

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