  Eclipsing binaries offer a unique opportunity to determine fundamental
physical parameters of stars using the constraints on the geometry of the
systems. Here we present a reanalysis of publicly available two-color
observations of about 6800 stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, obtained by the
MACHO project between 1992 and 2000 and classified as eclipsing variable stars.
Of these, less than half are genuine eclipsing binaries. We determined new
periods and classified the stars, 3031 in total, using the Fourier parameters
of the phased light curves. The period distribution is clearly bimodal,
reflecting refer to the separate groups of more massive blue main sequence
objects and low mass red giants. The latter resemble contact binaries and obey
a period-luminosity relation. Using evolutionary models, we identified
foreground stars. The presented database has been cleaned of artifacts and
misclassified variables, thus allowing searches for apsidal motion, tertiary
components, pulsating stars in binary systems and secular variations with
time-scales of several years.
