About

Cinetimes is a discovery and playback platform that helps people find movies, documentaries, and cartoons to watch directly on the site through embedded players.

What Cinetimes does

  • organizes movie and series pages
  • enriches metadata from public sources such as Wikipedia and Wikidata
  • embeds videos from third-party platforms and reviewed sources
  • helps people find availability for works that can otherwise be hard to discover

Where content comes from

Cinetimes relies in particular on:

  • YouTube
  • Internet Archive
  • Wikimedia Commons
  • Vimeo
  • ARTE
  • other reviewed platforms or channels

Cinetimes may also integrate content from ARTE, a recognized public-service editorial source. Some ARTE videos may however be subject to geographic restrictions, especially in France.

How Cinetimes reviews sources

Cinetimes favors sources that provide clear information about rights, licensing, provenance, or publication status. For submitted channels, we require that they declare they hold the rights to the works they publish.

Cinetimes also regularly checks video availability and embeddability in order to limit broken, removed, or non-playable content.

Sources may be reviewed again, unsynced, or removed in the event of a credible report, a change in availability, or uncertainty about rights.

Public domain and rights

Part of the catalog covers public domain works, but not all content on Cinetimes falls into that category. Depending on the case, a video may come from a third-party platform, a channel that declares it has the necessary rights, or a source connected to a public domain work.

Rights status may vary depending on the work, the source, and the country.

How Cinetimes helps people discover films

Cinetimes combines editorial organization and recommendation systems to surface relevant titles. This includes collaborative filtering, embedding-based similarity, and machine-learning models to connect related works, suggest adjacent titles, and improve discovery.

How to contribute

You can contribute in two main ways:

  1. suggest a channel that declares it holds the rights to the works it publishes
  2. improve Wikipedia / Wikidata directly by enriching metadata or source identifiers

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