Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Data Issues & Policy Discussions

This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.

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Correcting year of birth - IMDB has 1942, obituary has 1939 and FindMyPast (ie official Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths) has 1939

Just to alert the list managers to a problem. Barbara Ferris nm0274865 has a date of birth in IMDB of July 27, 1942. She has just died and her obituary in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jun/01/barbara-ferris-obituary gives her DOB as 27 July 1939 with an age at death of 85, whic

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Trying to add trailers to my films

Hello! I need help adding trailers to my films Freddy’s: The Film, No Escape, Backrooms: The Movie, and Jesus Is Lord. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35361125/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_unrel_t_2 (Freddy’s: The Film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35977310/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_unrel_t_4 (No Escape) https://w

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Adding credit

I have a new project in pre-development. I am trying to add a new item in my account, but unable to because the title doesn't seem to be approved by imdb pro. Th short film is called, "This Is What It Looked Like."

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How to join a official imdb contributor membership?

Hi, I am in a contributor in malayalam film industry, I want to join your official contributor in IMDB. I was managed many movie updates. Now am a basic contributor, the problem is didn't update the all contents. So how to join in your official contributor now?. Please tell me asap. Thanks Sony G

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How should invented languages be added?

Many films and TV programmes have speech in languages created for them or the work they're adapted from, e.g., Elvish in "The Lord of the Rings", the Klingon language in "Star Trek", the Na'vi language in "Avatar", Molanguese in "Molang". I don't think all such languages should be added to the pop-

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Contribution

Hello, About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I attempted to submit a short film on your platform. However, many of the details you require are not currently accessible to me. I filled in the form as best I could, but the page still doesn't give me the option to confirm the submission — I can only keep editing it.

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It might be time to consider adding missing data to IMDb's non-commercial use download datasets.

The number of entries that are missing from the IMDb downloadable datasets seems to have increased substantially over the last few years (by my quick estimate, about half of IMDb's titles - which assumes a third of the tconst numbers are bad/deleted). As far as I can tell, this is because two categ

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Minnie Driver

Being nominate for the best supporting role Oscar as Skylar in Good Will Hinting, shouldn't Minnie Driver appear in the main actors list?

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Incorrect Amazon Prime link to film title.

Hello, I could like to ask a request to discontinue an Amazon Prime streaming link to one particular film which is titled Zanna Bianca e il cacciatore solitario (1975) link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090318/ The reason being is that the film streaming on Amazon Prime is the incorrect film. The

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Wrong streaming link

Wrong streaming link of Sony Liv for Frozen Planet TV series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2092588/?ref_=chttvtp_t_5 for India. Though it links to the series with the same name(Frozen Planet) however the series is actually Frozen Planet II. Its Sony Liv issue but I am getting it pointed from IMDB on

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