IMDB, the Internet Movie DataBase, has a lot of information about movies, TV shows, actors, directors, gaffers, animators, etc. I just crunched some exported IMDB data to build a crossword dictionary so that the excellent Crossword Compiler could automatically create a "vocabulary puzzle" grid full of Hollywood magic:
Creating vocabulary puzzles isn't super-useful, but but there have been a few times when I wanted lists of famous movie, TV shows, actors, and I couldn't figure out how to get them. So now I want to jot down some notes about what I did for next time.