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 Hollywood has made plenty of movies about the life of Jesus, but my personal favorite is...
Four years after The Jazz Singer started Hollywood’s rapid shift to talking pictures, Charlie Chaplin stuck...
Most cinephiles know John Ford from his later classics like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...
At the very first Academy Awards, two separate honors were given for Best Film of the...
Just a month after the sinking of the Titanic, Saved from the Titanic became the very...
After gaining some attention playing supporting characters in the late 1910s, Lon Chaney reached star status,...
Few films have shaped cinema quite like Metropolis. Despite missing over 30 minutes of footage for...
Long before this summer’s recent slew of double-trouble films from Sinners to The Alto Knights, actors...
Buster Keaton made what is still considered the most expensive shot in all of silent film...
While Underworld wasn’t the first gangster film (earlier films like D.W. Griffith’s The Musketeers of Pig...
