Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is abstracted/indexed in:

America: History and Life; British Humanities Index; Communication Abstracts; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Current Abstracts; Film Literature Index; Historical Abstracts; Humanities International Index; International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance; International Index to Film Periodicals; International Index to the Performing Arts; M L A International Bibliography (Modern Language Association of America); OCLC; Periodicals Index Online; ProQuest Central; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale); Research into Higher Education Abstracts; Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index.