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The Greatest Films (http://www.filmsite.org/ and http://www.greatestfilms.org/) is a unique website containing interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film posters for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films in the last century. Supplementing the information - unparalleled on the Web - are other features including:

Highly Recommended Site:

Filmsite.org is prominently displayed as one of the main reviewers/critics and sources of film material for hundreds of films in the Internet Movie Database (under "External Reviews" for specific titles), the Movie Review Query Engine, and Rotten Tomatoes.

Roger EbertFilm critic Roger Ebert has twice voted the site as one of the top 20 movie sites on the Web in Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine (Jan. '98 and June '99) (see all of Ebert's honors and references to filmsite.org), and Ebert has also referenced this site's reviews on Notorious and Red River and other films in his 2002 book - The Great Movies, and on his Chicago Sun-Times website on The Great Movies. Ebert has also corresponded with the site's author on questions/answers that he incorporated into his "Answer Man" column.

The site has been reviewed very favorably by a number of Web magazines, sites or books (see this site References section), and the author has been quoted in numerous sources for DVD commentary, AP press releases, radio broadcasts, magazine articles, etc. Some of the site's content (the glossary of Film Terms) is currently used with permission on the IFC (Independent Film Channel) website.

(1) Visitor Statistics:
As of 2007, there have been many millions of visitors to the site since its inception (May 30, 1996).
As of February 2008, Alexa.com ranked Filmsite at 17,964, with 2,785 other sites that linked into it, and Netcraft.com ranked the site at 21,858. According to Netcraft (August 2007), there were 60 million active sites on the Web (of well over 100 million total sites).
Therefore, Filmsite.org is very easily in the Top 1% of all active websites.

Google Analytics

Statistics:
Month of February, 2008

  • Page Visits: almost 1.5 million, or 50,000 visits/day
  • Absolute Unique Visitors/IP Addresses (monthly): approx. 1.3 million
  • Average Page Views (monthly): approx. 4.6 million
  • Average Page Views per visitor session: approx. 3.1
  • New Visitors (monthly): 82%, Returning Visitors (monthly): 18%
  • Average Length of Session: 3:17 minutes

(2) Most Popular Pages: Approximately two-thirds of all visitors don't come in through the home page, but through many sub-sections or individual film review pages. The following sections are in the top 10 URLs -- after navigating away from the home page, according to Google Analytics:

(3) Individual Film Pages: Many visitors enter the site by searching with search engines for a particular film, such as My Fair Lady, The Godfather, Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Dr. Strangelove..., A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather, Alien, Frankenstein, Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, and dozens of other popular films, and then are attracted to other areas of the site as they discover other choices.

(4) Site Visitors:
Everyone interested in film in some way visits this site - seniors and the young, the student and the casual observer, film buffs from throughout the world - screenwriters, film reviewers, film studies students, persons looking for a particular quote or fact about a film, film poster enthusiasts, visitors looking to purchase or rent film videos, film books, or classic film posters, and those who want to experience a film again by reading the detailed, lengthy synopses of each of the films. With the amount of resources, it literally would take many repeat visits to see all areas of the filmsite.

Comments from Visitors & Reviewers:

- "An excellent overview of classic Hollywood films."

- "The Greatest Films is an encyclopedic, enthusiastic history of American film."

- "One of the better amateur sites on its topic."

- "Excellent for hunting down the perfect rental."

- "A virtual treasure trove of cinema goodies."

- "A real find for film buffs of all persuasions."

- "I really love to read your movie summaries."

- "It truly is a wonderfully in-depth and detailed place not only interesting to browse through, but, being a teacher of media/film, academically worthwhile." The links and additional information you provide is also first class. Keep up the good work and keep adding to the site."

- "I'm studying American film and this site is one of my main resources!!

- "Any site with Roger Ebert's endorsement has got to be bookmarked!"

- "Your compilation is extraordinary. Anyone who can coherently relate the plot of 'The Big Sleep' or 'Bringing Up Baby' deserves the highest esteem. I'm a New York screenwriter and actor, and find myself copying sections of dialogue and e-mailing them to my LA colleagues with the question, 'All right, film and director? What year?' Keep up the great work!"

Terms of Use and Conditions

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. The Greatest Films (www.filmsite.org, www.greatestfilms.org) Web Site is owned and operated by Greatest Films, founded and managed by Tim Dirks. Your use of this World Wide Web Site (the "Web Site") is subject to the following terms and conditions of use (the "Terms"). You agree to the Terms by accessing this Web Site or accepting the information from this Web Site. Greatest Films may alter, suspend or discontinue the Web Site at any time for any reason without notice or cause. The Web Site may be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance or malfunction of computer equipment.

This Web Site and all of the information it contains, or may in the future contain, (including, but not limited to, reviews, articles, opinions, text, directories, guides, photographs, illustrations, advertising copy, trademarks, and service marks (collectively, the "Content")) is the original and copyrighted property of Greatest Films, unless otherwise attributed. No copyright is claimed on non-original, affiliated, third party or licensed material. All elements contained within are protected by Copyright © by their respective owners. All element use must adhere to Copyright © guidelines. Fair use doctrines apply to all elements contained within. You may use the Content for noncommercial and personal use only provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained in such Content.

This Website contains some material submitted and created by third parties. By making a submission, users automatically grant to Greatest Films a license to all uses of the submitted material, and individuals give up any rights or privileges they might possess as owner of the submitted material. Material submitted by visitors becomes the sole and exclusive property of Greatest Films. Greatest Films excludes all liability for any illegality arising from or error, omission or inaccuracy in such material.

The content of this web site has been placed here for historical and educational purposes only. The information and features included in this Web Site have been compiled from a variety of sources. Film images, only provided in inferior and lower web resolutions (72), are found throughout the site - they are often screenshots from copyrighted films, and the copyright for them is most likely owned by the studio which produced the movie. It is believed that the use by this site of these screenshots is for informational purposes only, to provide identification and critical commentary on each film and its contents qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

Greatest Films requests your assistance in avoiding any possible violation of copyright law regarding the content of these pages. The author has made every effort to give proper credit where necessary. However, if you believe any of this material is being used inappropriately, please contact Greatest Films so the situation can be addressed. Greatest Films is not responsible for the material on any web sites linking to it nor any sites linked out from Greatest Films. Links to and from Greatest Films are not indications of endorsement. You may not display the contents of this Web Site surrounded or framed or otherwise surrounded by material not originating from this Web Site without express consent.

Greatest Films has affiliated itself with other selected third parties to offer you the opportunity to purchase goods. Such purchases will be with the named third party (and not with Greatest Films) and will be governed by the terms and conditions notified to you at the time of purchase. We cannot and do not accept any responsibility or liability for any losses you may suffer as a result of entering into any transaction with any of our named affiliates or any third party.

Greatest Films may make improvements and/or changes in this site at any time without notice. This Web Site and all information it contains are provided "AS IS," and is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate and 100% accessible 100% of the time. By using this Web Site, you assume the risk that the information on this Web Site may be incomplete, inaccurate, out of date, or may not meet your needs and requirements. The information, content, products and services published on this Web site may include inaccuracies, omissions, or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. (Please notify Greatest Films if you believe there are factual inaccuracies.)

Links to this site are welcomed. However, material from this site is not to be posted on other web sites without written permission of Greatest Films. You agree not to reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, disseminate, broadcast or circulate any Content to any third party (including, without limitation, the display and distribution of the Content via a third party Web Site) without express prior written consent.

Here's a suggested way to properly cite a Greatest Films webpage in a bibliography:

Dirks, Tim. "Greatest Films: [Specific Page Title here]." Greatest Films, [specific page URL here]. [Date of the document or last revision (if available).] [Date you visited or accessed site in parentheses (here)].

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Privacy Statement for Greatest Films

Greatest Films has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. Privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to the site. The following discloses information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Greatest Films.

When a visitor comes to the Greatest Films web site, the site collects some information to improve the overall quality of the online experience, to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Web site. It collects the visitor's IP address (domain name, whether the user is logged on from aol.com or ibm.com, etc.), referral data (the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to this site), and browser and platform type (e.g., Netscape or Internet Explorer browser on a Macintosh or Windows platform). It also counts, tracks, and aggregates information about a user's activity into a general analysis of traffic flows, derived mainly by tallying or counting page views throughout the site, to track how well each page performs overall, or by tracking where traffic comes from. Such aggregated information enables the site to better tailor the content to readers' needs and to help advertisers better understand the demographics of the site's audience. However, the site does not track the usage patterns of individual users or store individually-identifiable information or personal data about Web users, such as name, phone number, and street address.

This site contains links to other sites. Greatest Films is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their Privacy Policy may differ from ours.

Greatest Films uses various advertisers to serve ads when you visit this Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like to opt out of receiving ads, please use various ad blocking programs/services.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Access to computer data and files at Greatest Films are secured by password coding, and are properly protected to prevent unauthorized access.

Contacting the Web Site

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