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 The earliest films relied heavily on other entertainment mediums such as vaudeville, theater, books, and newspapers...
This post is the third historical overview in my series Celebrating 125 Years...
To deepen my knowledge of the silent era on the European continent, I created the...
Outside of a few big names like George Melies or D.W. Griffith, whenever silent movies are...
During the peak of her popularity, Clara Bow was Hollywood’s biggest box office star and...
Over the past twenty years, there has been a heightened interest in the...
Ohio-born author Zane Grey, originally a dentist and minor league baseball player before trying his hand...
Ever since the silent era, Hollywood filmmakers have traveled all around the world...
The transition from silent pictures to all-talking and all-talking sound films is often told as a...
This post on early Utah independent filmmaking is the second historical overview in my series...
