The German film center registered association (DFZ) in Bonn offers AV-media (special films and videos) for the non-commercial youth and adult education as supraregional non-profit rental business of non-commercially used media; they can of the DFZ entliehen to become.
The median requirement receives the German film center registered association from the following groups of clients: Bundestag, different Federal Ministries, subordinate upper authorities, nonprofit organizations, church institutions.

The media of the German film center registered association are to each prospective customer without Leihgebühren at the disposal. The borrower has to if necessary only carry forwarding expenses. The DFZ updated its rental business offer in the Internet always time near and makes it available free of charge also as catalog on requirement prospective customer. In this catalog are contained all titles with contents and of technical data.

The retrieval is alone possible in the Internet sites of the DFZ not in a data base, but. Can be investigated both over the simple search and over the extended search with field-specific options and the application type of boolean operators. Besides there are options for restrictive looking for.

The announcement of total stocks (title listing) of the new publications or after the subjects (history, present, future, political education, economics, social, health, occupation, Pädagogik, science and research, land and people customer, culture, art, media) is likewise possible.

filmarchives on-line developed in the context of the project MIDAS (Moving image DATA base for ACCESS and staggered array OF European film Collections); the data base makes the access possible to the existence from at present five European film archives. To archives and institutions involved belong German Filminstitut - DIF registered association, British to film of institutes (BFI), the Cineteca di Bologna, the DEFA foundation as well as in Prague resident Národní Filmový archives (NFA). From the existence mentioned the data of more than 4,000 not fiktionalen predominantly films in four languages to be scanned.

The film data base - motion picture films on-line is a private Internet site with information for cinema starts, DVD new publications, messages from Hollywood, a film preview and the current television program. There is the possibility of the simple search for film name, actor or director.

These website is a service of the Hamburg magazine and offers “current films on a view”; here can free of charge over 8060 descriptions of film - from the silent movie to the computer-animated Trickfilm to be called up. An extended search (after film title, actor, director or after production year) is available.

The encyclopedia of the international film of the publishing house two thousand-unity makes comfortable access to information too (according to own data) for approximately 52,000 films possible and is thereby the largest German-language knowledge pool over the international film.

The data base is constantly updated; Descriptions of contents and reviews are observable however only by films started again. The encyclopedia contains entries to films, since 1945 in the cinema, on video or in the television in the Federal Republic of, which had GDR and in all-German country until December 2001 premiere, in addition, to most of the large television productions.
For the restriction of the simple search determined categories (actor, film script, title, year among other things) are selectable by pull-down menu. Besides the search can be limited on the medium DVD.

In the hit list appropriate bibliographic data, contents data as well as referring to ordering types with the publishing house are given. Alternatively can be leafed also by the films of the Internet offer, by one of the given categories (e.g. titles one selects.

As right successor of the former production companies Ufa, universe film, Bavaria, Terra, Tobis and Berlin film possesses the Murnau foundation (according to own data) approximately 2,000 silent movies and 1,000 Tonfilme. In addition to the right existence to the foundation approximately 3,000 short films belong (under it publicity films, Kulturfilme, documentary films). Besides, receives and documents the foundation materials and rights collects to other films with cultural and historical meaning.

On-line film data base (OFDb) is private information resources with a data base over national and international films. Herein is information about motion picture films, television films and TV serials; in addition belong German title, original and/or alternative title, feature year, director, actor, category, continuations, versions and a short description of contents.

Registered users cooperate substantially in the actualization and extension of the volume of data. The films already seized can be evaluated and commentated by the users, in addition (after registration) new films can be registered and versions be supplemented. Apart from the original cinema versions e.g. also DVD and television versions as well as shortening are documented.

The data base OLC-SSG communication and medium science, journalism opens tables of contents of specializedrelevant magazines. It is a specialized cutout from the Swets data base on-line CONTENTS. Free entrance exists on-line CONTENTS for German libraries and scientific institutions over the respective left to the data bases and/or.

The data base OLC-SSG theater and film art opens tables of contents of theater, film and for medium-scientific magazines. Free entrance exists on-line CONTENTS for German libraries and scientific institutions over the respective left to the data bases and/or.

(According to own data) about 100 magazine titles are evaluated, usually starting from the feature year 1993, predominantly from the Western European countries and North America. Thus prove the daily updated data base of approximately 100,000 essays and reviews.

The data base AMG of the enterprise Allmediaguide contains (according to own data) over 220.000 titles to features, as well as to new publications on the DVD market. The retrieval is over a simple search or over determined category possible. Besides the AMG receives a glossary with film-scientific technical terms and a collection from film essays.

The film Literature index film & Television documentation center and the IU digitally of the LIBRARY Program to the Indiana University/USA indexes (according to own data) contents of 150 international film and television time writings as well as in selection the articles to film and television from 200 further magazines.

Those scarcely 700,000 proven essays are descriptive with key words and over a simple search investigatable. Three different search options are available: Simple search, extended search and search over a list after topics, family name (actor, director, producer etc.), productions or enterprises and/or film studios.

The Internet Movie DATA base (IMDb) contains (according to own data) in addition, data too over 300.000 films and TV serials, it is indexed of television commercial and video games; apart from the titles technical data, comments, are to find information to the persons taken part in the film (partial with Kurzbiographien and Filmographien) and many left in the IMDb summaries. In the data base are (nearly) all cinema and television films, which were turned since beginning of the cinematography. Missing information can be entered afterwards by the visitors (after previous registration).

The use of the base data of the IMDb is free; it can be looked for both for films, as well as for persons, film characters, quotations, within biographies as well as (over different extended searches) for many further data. The range of the offered data depends on the degree of popularity of the films and persons.

Registered users can deliver evaluations and comments to films. The German-language expenditure of the IMDb was partly translated so far only on the single film sides into German. Against payment an additional information offer is received too, current box Office statistics, agent contacts and similar branch information contains.

The data base Movie Review Query engine (MRQE) makes the search possible for film criticisms in approx. 200 film and/or cinema magazines, predominantly from the anglo American area. Are ordered (according to own data of the MRQE) over 370.000 criticisms to more than 37,000 films. If it is possible after copyright, the electronic full text is made available. In addition the majority of the film titles is linked with the Internet Movie DATA base, that gives information over contents, occupation and criticisms as film data base.

Apart from an input of references from the film title (original or English translation) can be accessed over a selection menu special compositions of films.

The WorldCat is the world largest bibliothekarische data base, which covers catalogs of thousands OCLC member libraries. (Beta) a version with a simple search option is freely accessible since at the beginning of August 2006. The WorldCat offers a search in the catalogs of thousands of libraries (world-wide, emphasis the USA) and has the large advantage a Clustering to make possible (i.e. the hit quantity divided after languages, media or topics), a refinement of the search is thus possible. The Suchmaske gives it in five different languages.

The results of a search started in German-language countries are indicated automatically by the WorldCat in German language. It is possible to be able to be been noticeable the nearest location of a medium in one of the participating libraries as the own location and/or the residence or a postal zip code are indicated.