3-D film (en)

3-D films have existed in some form since 1890, but until 2010 had been largely relegated to a niche in the motion picture industry because of the costly hardware and processes required to produce and display a 3-D film, and the lack of a standardized format for all segments of the entertainment business. Nonetheless, 3-D films were prominently featured in the 1950s in American cinema, and later experienced a worldwide resurgence in the 1980s and 90s driven by IMAX high-end theaters and Disney themed-venues. 3-D films became more and more successful throughout 2000-09, culminating in the unprecedented 3-D success of Avatar in early 2010, followed by the record-breaking 3-D

his list of Stereoscopic 3-D films gives original title, production country (or US production company), year, 3-D system filmed in, and, when different, the 3-D projection system. Many of these films are described in more detail in the book Movies A History and Filmography of Stereoscopic Cinema by R. M. Hayes - and of course on the IMDb. See also Amazing 3-D by Hal Morgan & Dan Symmes and Der 3-D-Film by Peter Hagemann (in German and published in 1980 in connection with the 3-D retrospective at the Berliner Filmfestspiele).

A computer-animated film commonly refers to feature films that have been computer-animated to appear three dimensional on a movie screen. While traditional 2D animated films are now done primarily with the help of computers, the technique to render realistic 3D computer graphics (CG), or 3D Computer-generated imagery (CGI), is unique to using computers to create movies.