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