I agree. Generally if I need to give credit for images or share links to reference resources they go at the bottom of the post where I will enter NOTES and then list them.
Are images from IMDB and Netflix public domain?
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This is where it gets tricky for me, and I don't know the answer. I would say "no" for these reasons:
It's not as people will believe that we are the creators of those images. No one believes you made images for Seven Samurai any more than I made images for Die Hard. For people like us, we would be entitled to "fair use" of images provided we give credit to the "owners" of the pictures or at least state where we found the images we ended up using.
Public domain is a beautiful thing, but it's not the same as "free". Sometimes we need to go with private domain, and this is where it gets tricky.
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Public domain is free as long as the Creative Commons license makes it so. The fair use doctrine for images gets pretty dicey especially when you're earning income on the work. Even giving credit doesn't necessarily cover you.
Fair use for written word is pretty firmly established, for images not so much and for music it's even worse.
When I was researching the use of lyrics for a Christmas Colouring book I was creating about the best advice that could be found short of talking to an IP lawyer was unless a song was in the public domain, don't use anything more than the title on a commercial use.