The Movie Database

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The The Movie Database ( TMDb , English for movie database ) is a collaborative database about movies. The project was founded by Travis Bell in 2008 to collect movie posters . The initial database was a donation from the free Open Media Database (omdb) project. TMDb is a competition project to the commercial Internet Movie Database and can e.g. B. can be used by the media center software Kodi .

In 2010 TMDb was sold to Fan TV , but the site is still managed by its founder. In mid-2020 there were 568,729 films and 1,752,577 people in the database.

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Individual evidence

  1. Working our way to better translations. In: blog.themoviedb.org. November 2, 2016, accessed February 10, 2017 .
  2. Our History
  3. ^ Add-on: The Movie Database
  4. About TMDb - The Movie Database (TMDb). Retrieved August 6, 2020 .
  5. Forum entry in The Movie Database Talk