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Database that links films to historical events. Search by country or subject. Useful for finding movies to compare perspectives on some historical events. Eg. By clicking on Japan it shows films about Japan but some are made in Japan, some in US, some in China.

"This movie has been put together as a summary of what I see as my role as a teacher. It includes some of the highlights of teaching over the last 12 months. It will be shared with participants at the ICTEV conference in Melbourne on May 26th where I will be honoured with the ICTEV Teacher/Educator of the Year Award 2012"

"A venture that started in a Bondi flat is helping Microsoft unlock the power of its Kinect gaming gadget so that it could control home automation, read sign language, monitor hospital patients and even enable users to edit movies or play music using just body movements."

You can now blur faces in youtube movies

"Life is more than just numbers. In GRID: pictures, movies, people, locations and many more things are kinda of a big deal. Grid allows you to organize and work with them in a whole new intuitive way."

The official YouTube Copyright School has a movie and accompanying quiz

This is a fabulous presentation on how teachers can use Evernote to make their record keeping so much easier. It has some great personal examples as well as embedded movies showing how to.

Making movies on a shoestring budget? No need hunting for talented actors, building a stage or even writing a script. A bit of clay or a toy can be the star of your animated masterpiece. Spending quality time with your kids? Watch them tap their creative potential and be amazed at what they create. iStopMotion for iPad is also ideal for use in the classroom and in all disciplines, honing creativity, problem-solving and communication skills in students of all ages.

"We offer a wide variety of 100% free production music in eight genres: cinematic scores, corporate, easy listening, electronic, hip-hop, international, pop and rock. We're committed to helping you find the perfect song for your video, movie, film, video game, or media project. Our music comes with a royalty-free license allowing you to use the music in all types of productions for worldwide distribution, forever. There are never any fees."

A useful way for students and teachers to add richness to their video productions, without treading the murky waters of copyright infringement?

Beautiful stop motion movie made with Google Street View and a few toys.

Free Video Movie Maker and Slideshow Creator For YouTube

This week, Microsoft rolled out its new tablet, simply called Surface, which gives you another way to enjoy our courses, movies, ebooks, audio books and the rest. In many ways, Surface resembles the iPad in its look and feel. And when it came to unveiling the tablet, Microsoft's execs couldn't think outside the box created by Steve Jobs. A video made by ReadWriteWeb makes that rather painfully yet amusingly clear….

Screenmailer is a screencasting download for Mac as long as the Mac is running Mavericks. One drawback is you can only upload to Screenmailer site and at moment you can't download the movies though "this will come soon".

The official Google+ guide includes embedded movies from the Google+ YouTube channel

A great movie showing how to create an interactive Google Form that incorporates feedback loops via pages

"A website full of animated movies, interactive tutorials and instructional videos, all free for you to view and to embed in your website. Simply select an animated explanation and follow the instructions to integrate it in your site."

Googlebeat is a weekly YouTube movie that looks at the latest search trends on Google.

"Remember in March when we shared with you that more than 24 hours of video being uploaded to YouTube every minute? Well, you continue to amaze us: you've increased the amount of video uploaded to YouTube to 35 hours per minute. That breaks out to 2,100 hours uploaded every 60 minutes, or 50,400 hours uploaded to YouTube every day. If we were to measure that in movie terms (assuming the average Hollywood film is around 120 minutes long), 35 hours a minute is the equivalent of over 176,000 full-length Hollywood releases every week."

This post on Naked Security looks at the Harmless Prank scam which takes facebook users to a survey and then spreads the link. The YouTube movie at the end of the post explains how to remove the post and clean up your Facebook account.

Royalty Free audio sound effects and loops. Need to acknowledged source. Great resource if students are creating movies