The Film Actor type includes people (and credited animals) who have appeared in any film as a character, including portrayals of real people, as in a biopic. The appearance could be minor, like a cameo appearance; unseen, like the work of a puppeteer; or typically uncredited, like a playback singer. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on film actors.

The Cinematographer type holds people who have worked as a film cinematographer.

The Film Rating type holds film content ratings by country, such as the US MPAA system of G, PG, PG-13, R and NC-17.

The Film Rating System type holds topics that represent the various film rating systems that assign film ratings around the world, such as the MPAA and the British Board of Film Classification.

A film director is the person or persons credited with directing the cast and crew in the making of a film and whose vision guides the creative side of the production. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on film director.

The Film Editor type includes people who have edited films.

Film is a release of a visual narrative composed of a series of moving images that is considered a complete presentation and is intended to be classified as a film. A film can be of any length of running time and presented in a theatrical, television, internet-streaming and direct-to-home-video presentation. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on Film.

A film's art director works under the production designer of the film and alongside the set decorator. The AD is responsible for the day to day operations, communications, and quality of executing the design of the 'look' of a film.

The lead person (or group of people) responsible for assembling the list of potential actors for a film's pre-production. Often the casting director will oversee/run the casting calls where a the film's lead pre-production team (usually involving the directors and lead producers) will audition the potential cast.

This type is for all fictional characters who have appeared in a film. Minor characters in films may have similar names ("Policeman #3", "Waitress", "Mary"), but each instance of these should be a separate topic since they are not actually the same character.

The Film Collection type is intended to hold ad-hoc collections of films that are neither large or formal enough to be genres.Collections such as top 100 lists can be ordered using the built-in property ordering feature. See the help topic "Reordering a List" for instructions.

The Film Company type holds companies that have funded or released films. It also includes movie studios.

This type is for the role performed by, or service provided by, a film company to the production of a film.

The Film Costumer Designer type includes people who have created the actors wardrobe for a film. Wardobe can be of an entirely original design or selected/modified from existing/historical designs.

Film crewmembers are (for the purposes of this type) people who have performed any function in the production of a film that is not captured by another type in Freebase.

The Film Critic type holds people who are publicly known for film criticism.

This is a list of different types of film cuts, such as "theatrical release" or "director's cut".

A film distribution medium is any way in which a film has been distributed, including theatrical release, television, streaming, as well as various home video formats such as VHS and DVD.

A film distributor is any organization which has distributed a film in any medium, include theatrical distribution, television broadcast, or release on home video.

A featured song of the film, mostly meant for Hollywood films of the early talkies of the 1930's up to the late 1980's used to have at least one or two musical numbers, often as distinct set pieces in the musical films, and would be noted in the credits. The songs were often composed and/or arranged specifically for the film. This practice has died out mostly since the introduction of complete multi-artist-pop-song soundtracks introduced in the 1980's (Top Gun Flashdance for example)

The Film Festival type is for all film festivals worldwide. This type is for the general festival (e.g. Cannes Film Festival), not for the individual occurrences of a festival.

This type is for a specific year's incarnation of a film festival -- e.g. 2004 Cannes Film Festival, rather than for the recurring film festival itself. It can also be used for one-time festivals, and for incarnations of festivals held more frequently than once per year.

Some film festivals only screen films based on certain criteria, such as subject matter or genre or language or format. This type is for those kinds of criteria.

This type is for the companies or organizations that put on film festivals.

The Film Format type includes all current and historical motion picture film formats.

The Film Genre type defines a finite set of topics that are used to classify films. Films can have multiple Film Genres.

The Film Job type includes all work positions on a film crew, both above and below the line.

The Filming Location type holds places in the world in which a film was shot. Examples include The Empire State Building and the Golden Gate Bridge.

The person who is responsible for the overall look (or design) of a film, one of the roles active very early in the pre-production of a film.

A film screening venue is a location where films are shown or "screened". This is typically a movie theatre that may be indoors or outdoors. It may also be a film festival or other event.

The Film Series type is used to organize films and their sequels, such as the Star Wars and Toy Story series.

A set decorator is in charge of the set dressing on a film set, which includes the furnishings, wallpaper, lighting fixtures, and many of the other objects that will be seen in the film. A set decorator works in conjunction with the props master under a production designer.

A film song is any musical composition that is played in a film (including both vocal and instrumental music). These recordings can be performed by the cast as part of their performance in the film or as incidental or background music (including music played during the credits). Film songs may not necessarily appear on a film's soundtrack.

A person or group which performs music that is played during a film. This includes performers who perform the music as part of their appearance in the film, playback singers, and musical artists whose music is played during the film (e.g. as incidental or background music).

A film story contributor is typically a person whose work in another medium (such as a novel or comic book) has been adapted for film; they are not generally the same as the screenwriter.

This type is for anything that a film can be said to be about or which features strongly in a film. This can be the subject of a documentary, the person (or people) whose life is the basis of a biopic, or simply a topic that is dealt with in a film.

The Film Theorist type contains people who are widely known to write on film theory.

The Film Music Contributor type includes people who have composed music for a film. This may also include people who composed works long before the film was made (such as classical composers.)

This type is for people, named animals, and groups (such as bands, collectives, etc.) that have appeared in films in non-acting roles (especially in non-fictional film types such as documentaries and concert films). Animals using this type should be individual creatures, rather than just a species (for example, Koko the Gorilla could incude this type since she was the subject of a documentary film, but the classification Gorilla would not have this type).

This type is a list of different ways a person can appear as him- or herself in a film. This includes as the narrator (e.g. of a documentary), in an interview, in archival footage, etc. New instances of this type should be added sparingly.

The Film Producer type includes people who produced films. This includes the Executive producer credit.

A production company is a company that makes films or movies. These may be one-off companies formed for the production of a single film or a larger company that makes many films.

This type is an enumerated list of different kinds of film performances. It is used to provide additional information about someone's performance in a film. Examples include providing the voice for an animated character, a cameo appearance, uncredited appearances, and a person portraying him- or herself. Additional instances should be added to this list sparingly.

Film Writer type includes people who are accredited to have worked upon the screenplay for the film. Sometimes multiple people are listed even if their contributions were never included in the final shooting script for the film. For more information, please see the Freebase wiki page on Film writer.

"Dubbing performance" is a compound-value type that connects information about a film-dubbing role. This is intended to be used for instances of a film being dubbed into a foreign language. Other types of dubbing, such as voice actors for animated films, voice-overs, and dubbing a singer's voice over that actor who appears on-screen use the film performance type.

This is a compound-value type that connects film crewmembers to the films they worked on and the jobs they performed on those films. Film crewmembers are (for the purposes of this type) people who have performed any function in the production of a film that is not captured by another type in Freebase.

The Film Cut type holds anonymous compound objects that contain the runtime for a particular cut of a film. Many of these are the primary or only cut of a film. Some might represent the "special edition" or "director's cut" of a film.

This is a compound-value type that holds information about the relationship between film festivals and the organizations that put them on.

This type connects films to the various companies that working on their production.

This type connects films and their distributors in different regions and locations.

This type connects films to their dates of release in different regions and in different formats.

A type to connect films to the music that appears in them.

The performance type is a mediator that connects a film to an actor who starred in the film. Normally this would be a direct relationship, but a mediator was needed to hold the character name. Some performances, particularly famous ones (eg. Laurence Olivier in Hamlet) can be turned into full-fledged Topics and given titles, images, articles, etc. Additionally there is the Special Performance type for performances that are non-standard (notable examples would be Motion Capture for the role of Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy or Voice or Seiyu for animated/foriegn films )

The "personal film appearance" type is used to collect information about an appearance in film by a person who is not playing a character. This can include documentary subjects, interviewees, hosts, etc.