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Gain insights into using The Movie Database API in Python to retrieve movie and TV data, including titles, cast, reviews, and create a Django app with integrated TMDB functionalities.

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The Movie Database (TMDB) is a popular crowdsourced database for movies and TV shows. TMDB’s API enables us to incorporate functions—usually reserved for leading movie-related websites—into your own application.

This course is a hands-on guide on how to use the TMDB API to programmatically retrieve movie and television show data. You’ll look up essential production data such as title, release date, cast and crew, as well as associated media files like trailer videos and stills. You’ll also pull movie and TV show reviews, and associated productions to make recommendations. With time-bound queries, you’ll be able to display the latest data on movies and TV shows, including upcoming releases. Moreover, you’ll look up actors, directors, producers, and other crew members to find their production catalogs. After reviewing the various potential search functions of the Movie Database API, you’ll wrap up the course by building a Django application that integrates TMDB API.

Integrate The Movie Database API in Python

In this lesson, we'll focus on four endpoints—the latest movie, upcoming movies, currently playing movies, and movie watch providers.

# Latest movie 

If an individual is looking for something new to watch then most probably they will start with the latest movies. TMDB’s **latest movie** endpoint allows us to fetch the latest movie they have on the platform. This endpoint doesn’t take any path parameters. 



The base URL in focus is as follows:

```
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/latest?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}
```


The following query parameters can be used with this endpoint:

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The objects in the resulting JSON response are the same as we get for the [movie details](https://www.educative.io/courses/movie-database-api-python/primary-movie-details#Movie-details) endpoint.

Let’s run an example of the latest movie endpoint. The widget below shows how to get the most newly created movie. Click “Edit” to enter the value for `API_KEY` if not entered earlier. Next, click “Run” to execute the code.

> **Note:** The output of the latest movies endpoint will be a live response, it changes continuously as per the updated latest movie on TMDB.

Learn and practice how to get the latest, upcoming, and currently playing movies and information about their duration using TMDB API.

Name	Type	Category	Description
`language`	string	optional	This is an `ISO_3166_1` code used to get the translated data as per the specified language. This is applicable to only the fields that support it. The default value is `en-US`.

Introduction

Movies

TV Shows

People

Finding Movies or TV Data

APIs Integration in Django

Conclusion

Appendix

Latest and Upcoming Movies

Latest movie