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Movie Cast and Crew

Explore how to access comprehensive cast and crew data for movies using The Movie Database API. Learn to retrieve credits for a movie, understand the differences between cast and crew, and get detailed credit information for individual cast members using unique credit IDs.

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In this lesson, we’ll explore two endpoints— the credits and credit details.

Cast and crew

The movie crew includes all the people who were involved in its production. However, the movie cast explicitly includes all the actors appearing in at least one of the movie scenes.

We can get the cast and crew for a movie using TMDB’s credits endpoint. This endpoint takes an integer path parameter movie_id and returns a list of cast and crew in a single JSON response.

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