BFI Film & TV Database

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BFI Film & TV Database
Type of site
Film archive
Owner British Film Institute
URLbfi.org.uk

The BFI Film & TV Database (ftvdb) is an online database created by the British Film Institute containing information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media, from the UK. [1] [2] It was previously featured on a BFI website under this name, but on 26 June 2014, every page was changed to redirect to listings on the BFI's main site. [3]

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References

  1. BFI
  2. "The bfi Film & TV Database". filmlondon.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. "British Film Institute (BFI) — filmarchives online". www.filmarchives-online.eu. Retrieved 2020-04-05.