The Movie Corpus (Mark Davies, english-corpora.org) – Kielipankki version

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Resource information

This resource contains a copy of the original Movie Corpus, provided by Mark Davies on 4th June 2021 via the corpus service at https://www.english-corpora.org. The corpus contains 200 million words from about 25,000 movies from the years 1930-2018. The movie scripts come from several different English-speaking countries and include English from the US, UK and 4 other dialects.

More information about all corpora from english-corpora.org that are available via the Language Bank

License and access

For the license text of an individual corpus, click on the license image in the corpus list, or see the metadata record (click on the link at the corpus title). Note that there are specific additional terms and conditions that apply on this and other corpora from BYU, see https://www.corpusdata.org/restrictions.asp. The link is included in the official license.

Korp versions

  • Some of the corpus versions are available for searching via the Korp concordancer tool (click on the link under ’Location’).
  • Access to the Korp versions requires academic login via a university in Finland.

Downloadable versions

  • Access to the downloadable corpora mentioned above is restricted to researchers affiliated to member universities of the FIN-CLARIN consortium in Finland. Download access can usually be provided to graduate or postgraduate students in case the applicant needs the corpora for an MA thesis or for a PhD dissertation.
  • To obtain access to restricted corpora, please submit an application via the Language Bank Rights (after logging in to the LBR service, search the catalogue for ’Mark Davies’ downloadable corpora at Kielipankki.’).
  • To access the download service, click on the link under ’Location’, or see the metadata record for the link.

This page has a Persistent Identifier: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:lb-2022112305

Last modified on 2025-11-28