The Top 100 Silent Movies
A curated guide to essential silent films, from famous landmarks to overlooked discoveries.
Silent Movies
Explore silent movies from the earliest years of projected cinema through the end of the silent era. Browse film reviews, filmmaker profiles, forgotten classics, lost films, and essays on how silent cinema shaped film language around the world.
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The Top 100 Silent Movies
The Seven Types of Lost Films
A guide to the different ways films become lost, incomplete, rediscovered, or misunderstood.
The Unexpected Comedy of Raymond Griffith
A closer look at one of silent comedy’s most elegant and underappreciated stars.
Latest Silent Movie Articles
Browse the latest reviews, essays, and film history articles about silent movies below.
Shawn Hall You may have noticed over the last few months I’ve been posting less on my blog;...
None of the limitations of the silent screen then, seemed limitations to its...
Despite this being her only major on-screen film role, theater actress Maria Falconetti delivers one of...
Horror was not recognized as a movie genre until the Pre-Code years, when Universal’s smash hits Dracula and Frankenstein solidified...
Laurel and Hardy are best known for their 1930s and ’40s films, but their rise to...
During promotion for The Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin declared it the film he wanted to be...
In a perfect world, I would have been in Pordenone, Italy, for the complete in-person festival...
Long before Superman or Batman, America’s favorite screen hero was Douglas Fairbanks. In The Iron Mask...
There are very few silent movie titles well-known to the public, let alone elicit a shiver...
Ever since scholars began seriously considering the history of film in the mid-20th century, The Birth...
