The American Film Institute Desk Reference: The Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Know about the Movies

An in-depth resource on the art of filmmaking provides detailed information on the history of film, actors, designers, directors, and more, featuring more than five hundred photographs and illustrations, a year-by-year chronology of movies, and special annotated lists, including the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Best Films of the Past 100 Years.

The American Film Institute is a non-profit organization committed to advancing, preserving and redefining the art of the moving image. The only national arts organization devoted to film, television and video, AFI serves as a point of national focus to those concerned with film as art. George Ochoa and Melinda Corey have written more than 30 books on film and other subjects, including The Dictionary of Film Quotations, The New York Public Library Book of Answers, Facts About the 20th Century, and The Wilson Chronology of the Arts.