American Movie Classics Company
The Film Site: Film Noir
Crime and gangster movies, detective mysteries and more -- all are of the film noir genre. Get to know the history behind this style of films.
PBS
Pbs: Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
The companion website for a documentary film about jazz is home to a storehouse of resources and unique features about the historical, cultural, and artistic significance of jazz. With a timeline of key events in the history of jazz,...
Rudiments of Wisdom
Rudiments of Wisdom: Films
Learn about films and the art of production in a unique way. All of the fun-fact information is drawn in a cartoon style.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Apa Bibliography: Film or Television Sources
This lesson introduces how to format a film or television program source in an APA bibliography.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Grade 10: Comparing Play and Film [Pdf]
An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...
Other
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Housed in a Pueblo-style Art Deco building, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center represents Alice Bemis Taylor's dream of gathering all the arts under one roof. In addition to music, dance, theater, film, sculpture, painting, and...
Library of Congress
Loc: How to Cite Digitized Primary Sources
Learn from the Library of Congress how to correctly cite the many electronic resources available in their collection. Films, legal documents, photographs, maps, sound recordings and other unusual cases are covered. Be sure you click on...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters:charlie Chaplin
Explore this site for biographical information on one of the best known silent movie stars of all time. His style of acting is still evident in films of today.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Ted Ed Lesson: Animating Zombies With Puppets
What style of animation perfectly mimics the movement of zombies? Puppet animation allows for just the right amount of zombie-like stiff limbs and jerky stumbles. TED-Ed animators show how to bring a zombie to life through 2D puppet...
Rudiments of Wisdom
Rudiments of Wisdom Encyclopaedia: Cinematography
Learn some fun facts about cinematography from this encyclopaedia entry drawn in comic-book style.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Daguerreotypes and Salted Paper Prints
Learn about the photography style of daguerreotypes and salted paper prints.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ken Burns in the Classroom: Collection
Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these...
PBS
Pbs: American Masters: F. Scott Fitzgerald
An essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald with autobiographical elements, called 'The Crack Up', can be read here. There is also an interactive timeline of Fitzgerald's life, and an interview with filmmaker DeWitt Sage, who worked on a film about...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Learning Resources for How Art Made the World
Access five lessons that would enrich any curriculum about ancient civilizations and the art produced by those civilizations. Using the PBS documentary "How Art Made the World" as a jumping off point, the lessons ask students to think...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Eartha Kitt
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Eartha Kitt, an American singer and dancer noted for her sultry vocal style and slinky beauty who also achieved success as a dramatic stage and film actress. This site, rich in detail and...