Just a quiet reminder for anyone wanting to use this<p>Please refer to the copyright/license information listed in each file for instructions on allowed usage. The data is NOT FREE although it may be used for free in specific circumstances.<p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/help/show_article?conditions</a> which links to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/licensing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/licensing/</a> and<p>Minimum Price: We offer data licensing packages that are customized to meet your needs with annual fees ranging from $15,000 to higher depending on the audience for the data and which data are being licensed. We are not able to offer any sort of data license for less than $15,000.
We use it at the University in Oslo as a realistic database for practicing sql. It's great fun.<p>I remember one question. List the directors that have directed at least 20 movies and acted in all of them. This is fairly tricky, and returns a list of mostly explicit movie directors.<p>What's more fun though is a sparql endpoint. So you can query it and link to it on your own sites. I found this one on a quick google search (couldn't find the one I looked at before).
<a href="http://www.linkedmdb.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.linkedmdb.org/</a>
When was that page last updated? Look at the machines/OSs referenced on it: OS/2, Acorn, Amiga, Win 95/98/NT!<p>I haven't seen the string 'ftp' mentioned on the same page so many times in years.
It would be so cool to make <a href="http://TheWikiGame.com" rel="nofollow">http://TheWikiGame.com</a> for IMDB data, but I guess the license dis-allows it?
You may also be interested in IMDB history <a href="http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?history</a>