Search facilities in this database

Index-based search

Click on the desired category (subject term, person, corporation, film title) and language (English or German) in the lower frame. If only a single film is indexed under the selected entry, then the link will lead directly to the film description. Otherwise, a selection list will be shown.

Text passages marked in blue within a film description are links to film selection lists. E.g. a personal name marked in blue will open a list of other film titles associated with this person.

All film selection lists give the primary title (i.e. the original title in the country of origin, if available) without an article at the beginning, followed by the last name of the (first) director, the country of origin (abbreviated according to ISO 3166 with our own extensions), and the year of origin.

Free text search

This covers all elements of the film description including the subject terms, als well as additional texts in the selected language. Click the button labelled "Search" for searching the English-language film descriptions and texts, or "Suchen" for a corresponding search in German.

The result list contains film titles sorted by rank and the file size in kilobytes. The rank expresses the frequeny of the search word relative to the total number of words within the document. A search word occuring in the film title is counted as twice as frequent. If a search yields no result, then a list of lexically neighbouring words is shown.

Simple search	Capitalization is ignored. German umlauts can be entered directly or by adding the letter 'e' (e.g. Ä -> AE, etc.). Accented characters are always converted to the corresponding base character. Purely functional words such as articles and prepositions are partly omitted from the index and should not be used for free text searching.
Truncation (*)	combines words with different endings within a single search expression. photograph* will find "photography" as well as "photographer" or "photographic", etc.
Word combinations	Two or more search words in sequence will be joined automatically using the AND operator.
Operators	AND - Both search words must occur in the document OR - The document must contain one or both of the given words NOT - The word following the operator must not occur in the document
Parentheses	When using two or more operators, a particular order of evaluation can be enforced by using parentheses.