Complete Index to World Film

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Complete Index to World Film since 1895(citwf)
Type of site
 Online movie database
Available in English
OwnerAlan Goble
Created byAlan Goble
URL www.citwf.com
CommercialNo
Launched2004;21 years ago (2004)
Current statusActive

The Complete Index to World Film (citwf or citwf.com) is an online database of information related to movies. Citwf, compiled online by Alan Goble and Valan Publishing since 2004, had a Guinness Record as the world's largest published film-related database, with over 756,000 title entries. [1] [2]

Contents

In 1990, The Complete Index to World Film Since 1895 was published by Bowker Saur in two volumes. ( ISBN   1857392523) [3] and a CD version was published in 1995. [4]

Overview

The Complete Index to World Film since 1895 contains information on over 518,639 films produced in over 175 countries of the world between 1888 and 2019 and is accessible by all. A subscription version is available to libraries and institutions and this version contains no advertising and the additional benefit of over 580,284 references to books and journals.

Alan Goble

Title (Year) Director. Place is a 2023 documentary portrait of the now-retired ex-civil-servant Alan Goble. [5] [6] [7]

Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film . Walter de Gruyter, 1999. LCCN   990058986 990-58986 doi : 10.1515/9783110951943

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  1. ↑ "complete index to world film - CD review". videovista.net. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  2. ↑ "Largest database of published films". guinness world records .com. Guinness World Records. Archived from the original on 10 September 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Emerald: Article Request - The Complete Index to World Film Since 1895". www.emeraldinsight.com. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  4. ↑ "IngentaConnect The Complete Index to World Film Since 1895 [CD-ROM](2nd ed.) - (1998). West Sussex, UK: Bowker-Saur. Annual. $1,295.00. ISBN 1-85739-252-3". www.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2009-02-13.
  5. ↑ "Title (Year) Director. Place". filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org. British Council UK Films Database. 12 May 2025. Retrieved 10 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Title (Year) Director. Place". titleyeardirectorplace.com. Archived from the original on 23 July 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2025. A portrait of an English eccentric, an obsessed octogenarian with many interests but one passion: to detail every film ever made anywhere in the world
  7. ↑ Bentley, Cheryl (March 14, 2008). "British Internet Film Database Creator Visits West Pasco". Suncoast News . Archived from the original on 2024-02-07. Retrieved 10 September 2025– via NitrateVille.
  8. 1 2 Brown, Tim. "Film & Digital Media: Websites". LibGuides. Wofford College . Retrieved 10 September 2025.
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