14 Facts About IMDb

IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

Title and talent pages of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries.

IMDb originated in 1990 with a Usenet posting entitled "Those Eyes", by the English film fan and computer programmer Col Needham, about actresses with beautiful eyes.

In 1996 IMDb was incorporated in the United Kingdom, becoming the Internet Movie Database Ltd.

In 2008, IMDb launched their first official foreign-language version with IMDb.

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Also in 2008, IMDb acquired two other companies: Withoutabox and Box Office Mojo.

In January 2019, IMDb launched an ad-supported streaming service called Freedive.

In 2006, IMDb introduced its "Resume Subscription Service", where an actor or crew member can post their resume and upload photos for a yearly fee.

IMDb resume pages are kept on a sub-page of the regular entry about that person, with a regular entry automatically created for each resume subscriber who does not already have one.

Since 2007, IMDb has been experimenting with wiki-programmed sections for complete film synopses, parental guides, and FAQs about titles as determined by individual contributors.

IMDb has sites in English as well as versions translated completely or in part into other languages .

IMDb indicates that submitted ratings are filtered and weighted in various ways to produce a weighted mean that is displayed for each film, series, and so on.

IMDb Top 250 is a list of the top rated 250 films, based on ratings by the registered users of the website using the methods described.

IMDb questioned the intent of the bill, as it was ostensibly meant to target IMDb.