IMDb IMDb Home Page in 2007 URL www.imdb.com Commercial? Yes Type of site Online movie, TV, and video game database Registration Optional Available language(s) English Owner Amazon.com Created by Col Needham Launched October 17, 1990 Current status Active The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, Needham posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, and the database that would become the IMDb was born. At the time, it was known as the