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 Anyone even slightly familiar with the silent era knows of the staggering amount of films lost...
Horror has always been a genre tremendously suited for exploring the inner machinations of human desire...
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once won a bet writing a devastating six-word short story....
For each of the past two classic film reading challenges, I read a Zane Grey Western...
Since 1989 the Library of Congress selects 25 American films deemed culturally, historically or aesthetically significant...
Homer Croy’s 1918 book How Motion Pictures Are Made has the best case for the...
1916 marked the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. Naturally, motion picture studios celebrated the occasion...
Over eighty years after his death, Cecil B. DeMille remains one of the most recognizable classic...
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the...
Anyone with experience watching classic films has undoubtedly been taken out of an otherwise engaging, entertaining...
