Summary

The data contains American movie details from Wikipedia between the 1970s and 2020s. The data was compiled using the Wikipedia API and includes almost 18,000 movies.

The data is ideal for natural language processing and machine learning tasks such as recommender systems. The data is provided in CSV format and includes columns for title, image and plot.

Criteria used

For a movie to be included in the data, it must have had a Wikipedia page that:

• Appeared in: category:{decade}s_American_films
• Contained a "Plot" section (not a "Synopsis" or "Summary" section)
• Contained an image that was not a Wikipedia placeholder image (e.g. File:Question_Mark.svg)

This means the data will not include EVERY movie between the 1970s-2020s.