Film Archive Forum

http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/ftvdb/

The British Film Institute's database of film and television programmes is now available online. It includes details of over 810,000 feature films, short films, television programmes, documentaries, newsreels and educational and training films, with synopses, credits and release information. It does not distinguish betwewn films and programmes held in the BFI National Archive and titles for which the BFI has information, but a guide to whether the film is held by the NFTVA is if there is an Archive synopsis given. There are some individual catalogues also online, including the Boer War, the Spanish Civil War, British Silent Comedy, the British Raj, Documentaries and The Troubles (Northern Ireland).

http://www.uea.ac.uk/eafa/

Offers all titles from the EAFA catalogue which have been fully catalogued, with full descriptions for films for which viewing copies exist.

http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryFilm.asp

Over 160,000 records from the IWM's various collecting departments, covering film and sound in detail, plus stills, documents, and selected other materials.

http://www.screenandsound.llgc.org.uk

A representative cross-section of the 3,000 film titles in the NSSAW collection.

http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk:591/search/
http://www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk:591/bbc/default.htm

The NWFA catalogue of around 5,000 titles is available online, searchable by date, keyword or general subject category. The North West Film Archive has completed its Arts and Humanities Research Council funded cataloguing project for BBC North West regional news and documentaries from 1966-1986, with 220 hours of material now available.

http://ssa.nls.uk/index.cfm

The Scottish Screen Archive online catalogue includes 1000 clips from its collections. It is fully searchable and can be browsed by place, subject, biography and decade.

http://sasesearch.brighton.ac.uk/

Screen Search, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, provides an enhanced online catalogue of over 600 selected films from the Screen Archive South East collection. The resource presents a catalogue containing details about each of the films along with contextual information and references to associated materials and other resources that relate to the history of each film. Screen Search also presents stills and video clips to accompany selected entries and is organised by themes and key collections.

http://www3.hants.gov.uk/wfsa/wfsa-catalog.htm

The WSFA catalogue is available as part of the Hampshire Record Office online catalogue. It covers not just Hampshire, but all of Central Southern England.

http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/filmSearch.asp

The Yorkshire Film Archive database provides information on all of its catalogued titles, covering the whole of the Yorkshire region.