Box of Broadcasts (BoB) provides a huge archive of recorded TV and radio for use within education. You can access it by selecting University of East Anglia as your home institution and then using your normal UEA sign-in.
We are building up playlists for movies in BoB organised by year of release. You can browse these lists below, or if you're after a particular film and not sure when it was released, use the IMDb to look up the date first. We currently list more than 8,000 films. There will be many others in BoB, so use BoB's search to see if the film is there (and then let us know so we can add it).
Click on a year/decade to view Playlist:
Other UEA film lists
(access films with UEA log-in):
Open Films online:
Note that some of these films may still be in copyright in UK so exercise judgement in downloading and using recordings
There are tens of thousands of books and journal articles related to film, TV and Media Studies available via Library Search. Here are some other resources you may find useful.
The AFI Catalog, the premier, authoritative resource of American film information, covers the history of American cinema comprehensively from 1893 to 1993 with full or short records for films from 1994 to 2015. Every film produced on American soil or by American production companies is indexed from the birth of cinema to the present day. New records are created by the AFI editorial team and added each year.. Can also be searched as part of the Screen Studies Collection .
For newspaper and magazine content, which will often have articles relating to film, TV and media, please see our dedicated guide, which covers both current and historic papers and magazines.
In addition to the primary sources listed on this page under Key Resources for Film, TV and Media, you may find these resources useful.
National service run by the British Library to increase visibility and access to UKs doctoral research (PhD) theses. There are more than 600,000 records with about half of these full-text, either directly available from EThOS or via links to the institution's own repository. Note that you will need to register with EThOS to download theses.
