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 No era of filmmaking has the potential to shock and surprise you quite like the silent...
Anyone who has made a list before knows the labor of love required to whittle down...
Legends become so enmeshed in the cultural consciousness that they appear in numerous forms and adaptations...
Normally held in Topeka, Kansas, the Kansas Silent Film Festival took place fully online this year....
This post is the first historical overview in my series Celebrating 125 Years of Utah...
There aren’t very many things from 2020 I’d like to remember. That being said, I’ve had...
As a poor, young millennial on the verge of entering the full-time job market (if it...
Dating back to the very origins of cinema, music has been readily used alongside the moving...
Of all the silent directors who emigrated from Europe to Hollywood, Ernest Lubitsch was arguably the...
