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  • ️Wed Oct 10 2012

IMDb (Website)

The Internet Movie Database is a website founded in 1990. Initially fan-operated, in 1998, it was bought by Amazon for $55 million.

The website records every movie ever released, along with television series and episodes, video games, actors, voice actors, major characters, and so on and so forth. Every movie had its own little forum for heated and aggressive exchanges to take place. And like any other site, you will sometimes find Trolls and Sockpuppets (for absolute troll-magnets, look no further than the "Politics" and "Soapbox" subforums). The G.I.F.T became so prevalent in the boards that Amazon decided to shut them down in 2017, but they appear to have been successfully archived.

Users can give 1-10 grades to movies. After the death of Heath Ledger, many users pre-emptively gave The Dark Knight a perfect 10 rating, while at the same time giving perennial high rankers such as The Godfather a rating of 1. Prior to the release of The Twilight Saga: New Moon the more avid of the Twilight fans gave mass ratings of 10 to the film before it even came to theaters, while /b/ was there to even it out with a healthy dose of 1s without even seeing it. IMDb's averaging algorithm is designed to compensate for this kind of behaviour to an extent. (This doesn't prevent some gaming of the system - took a while, but the site seems to have seen that case and caught on)

TV Tropes has something similar to IMDb with our very own Franchise Actors.

Top 10 Highest Rated Movies 

Bottom 10 Lowest Rated Movies 

Top 10 Highest Rated TV Series 

In January 2019, Amazon launched the IMDb-branded ad-supported streaming service IMDb TV, which was available both on the IMDb website and on the Prime Video platform. The free service contained a selection of movies and television (it notably acquired Mad Men after the show's long residence on Netflix concluded) and also distributed originals, beginning with the US release of Alex Rider in 2020. The service secured the second pay-TV window for Universal's 2020-2021 film slate, following their expiration from HBO and Cinemax, the first time a free ad-based web platform had acquired a major television package of this kind. In 2022, the service was renamed Amazon Freevee.

In November 2024, it was announced that Amazon Freevee would be shut down, as part of Amazon's strategy of consolidating its subscription and free content services under one banner. The decision had been speculated since January that year, when Amazon introduced a free ad-supported tier for Prime Video, eliminating its distinction with Freevee. All Freevee shows had since been migrated over to Prime Video, where they remain free to watch.

Freevee original programming includes: