co5TARS is a viewer for browsing movie history through the people who make them. You can visualize the careers and activities of filmmakers over a century of motion pictures. It shows details of the films they made, and who they were working with. It's similar to IMDB in its structure, but unlike IMDB, you can discover the relationships behind the movies. It's a must-see for the serious movie-buff!

You can use co5TARS to find information about actors and actresses, directors, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers and editors. A search on a particular person will lead you to a timeline of movies they worked on. By dragging and dropping names onto the timeline, you can filter and sort the activities of collaborative teams. You can also search for a film title, which will lead you to more information about that movie's director.

co5TARS uses information drawn from Freebase, an open, shared database of the world's knowledge. It works just like Wikipedia, in that all the content comes from the community. In fact, some of the data is drawn directly from Wikipedia.

Since the data is drawn directly form the community, it's inevitable that there are some mistakes in there. If you spot a mistake, we say: go right ahead and change it. In fact, one of the coolest things about co5TARS is how much easier it becomes to understand the data and spot anomalies in the data.

You can edit the Freebase data by going to Freebase and requesting a user login. You're then free to adjust the data so that it displays correctly in co5TARS. And if you want to be accurate, don't forget to cross-reference your changes with IMDB!

That's how the information comes to us from Freebase. If you'd like to add more information, including a longer synopsis, you're free to do so.

co5TARS is a δt.project by iconomical.com. We specialize in unique web-based user experiences around interconnected time-based data.