Film Studies: Film and Television Scripts Online

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Finding Scripts

Finding Film Scripts Online

There are many online resources that you can use to find scripts, though many of them may not be fully comprehensive, and perhaps not completely legal. It's important to note that scripts come in a variety of forms, too, including spec scripts, many drafts, revisions, shooting scripts, continuity scripts, and transcripts made from the finished film. Non-English language scripts are difficult to find online. For more information, please refer to UCLA's Library Subject Guide for Film and Television, which has more links and resources to guide you.

Note: the links below are an incomplete list and should not be seen as exhaustive, nor should a website's inclusion here be interpreted as the Library's endorsement of the quality, version, or otherwise of the scripts.

Online Scripts

BBC Script Library
Read BBC TV, Radio and Film scripts
The Daily Script
Drew's Script-o-Rama
Started in 1995, huge collection of scripts of all types.
The Internet Movie Script Database
"The web's largest movie script resource"
Simply Scripts
Read scripts online, including Non-English Scripts
Writers Guild Foundation: Additional Script Libraries
Links and institutions that give access to a variety of scripts.

Credits

This page borrowed from other online resources and film librarians, with gratitude to https://guides.library.cornell.edu/filmbib/screenplays, https://guides.library.ucla.edu/film/screenplays, and the videolib librarians list.