Shawn Hall I’m trying something different to celebrate Silent Movie Day this year. I’ve put together an eight-film...
1910s
Estimates suggest that as many as 90% of silent films made before 1929 are now lost...
Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd are firmly on the Mt. Rushmore of silent comedians; the fourth face...
Horror was not recognized as a movie genre until the Pre-Code years, when Universal’s smash hits Dracula and Frankenstein solidified...
Ever since scholars began seriously considering the history of film in the mid-20th century, The Birth...
Just a month after the sinking of the Titanic, Saved from the Titanic became the very...
Long before this summer’s recent slew of double-trouble films from Sinners to The Alto Knights, actors...
What’s the greatest silent film ever made? Or even the Top 100 Silent Movies? <span style="box-sizing:...
Perhaps no genre gets more flak than the melodrama. Fans enjoy its strong emotions, all-or-nothing stakes,...
1917 proved to be a tumultuous year for Russia: Tsar Nicolas II abdicated his throne and...
