Common Metadata Genre

The following values are suggested for Genre for US/Canada English.

URI encoding of these genre use the form "md:genre:common" <genre> where <genre> is a value from the following table. For example, "md:genre:common:action". Use percent-encoding for characters that are not allowed in URIs (RFC 3986). For example, "md:genre:common:Variety%2FTalk%20Show".

Action

Adult

Adventure

Anime

Animation

Children’s

Comedy

Documentary

Drama

Education

Erotic

Faith and Spirituality

Family

Fantasy

Food

Horror

Independent

Instructional

Live Performance

Music Performance

Musical

Mystery

Reality

Romance

Science Fiction

Sports

Thriller

Variety/Talk Show

Western

Miscellaneous