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 In his nearly fifty film roles, Ernest Torrence perfectly exemplifies the unique skill set required to...
Mary Pickford skyrocketed to international stardom in the 1910s playing plucky children in films such as...
The canon of the greatest films constantly changes as each generation reevaluates yesteryear’s classics and rediscovers...
To celebrate the second annual Silent Movie Day, I’ve put together a list of...
Some of the most valuable sources of information for silent and early sound...
There may be no other sound more synonymous with the moviegoing experience than 20th Century Fox’s...
I have a strange fascination with silent stars who never translated their careers successfully into the...
A plunge from the skies to the earth in a falling airplane was a mere incident to...
