The Departed Resources
Websites
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Don't worry, this isn't the official website for everybody who's ever died. Though there are a lot of people who die in this flick…
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Because who doesn't want to hear MovieWeb's take on things?
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Yup, follow this link if you want to check out The Departed's official Facebook page.
Book or TV Adaptations
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
This is the place to go if you want to see the source material for The Departed.
Articles and Interviews
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
The Guardian sits down with Martin Scorsese and asks him all about what it was like to make The Departed—and to work with Leonardo DiCaprio for like the dozenth-or-so time.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Check out this link to see why RogerEbert.com gave The Departed the highest possible rating of four stars.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
This old review predicts that The Departed won't win Martin Scorsese any Oscars, because it's simply "too good." Well, the Oscars would go on to show this reviewer a thing or to, since The Departed would end up winning four of those bad boys.
Video
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Check out the trailer that audiences would have seen back in 2006.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Here's five minutes of pure acting glory between Leonardo DiCaprio and Vera Farmiga in the psychologist's office. Sit back and enjoy the mixed emotions.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Yeah. Go Sergeant Dignam.
Audio
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
You might as well consider this song from The Dropkick Murphys to be the theme song to this movie.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
This great tune is one that composer Howard Shore wrote especially for this movie, and it does a great job of conveying a sense of what the movie's all about.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Want to hear one of the saddest melodies ever? Then check this out.
Images
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
It's about time Billy found out that there are some guys you hit and some guys you don't hit.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
Apparently he doesn't, Frank. But that's okay, because he will soon enough.
![](https://media1.shmoop.com/media/common/off-site01.gif)
It's Dignam time.