The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

Henry Roberts discovers a programme of classic films at HippFest, a movie celebration in the most unlikely of locations ...

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...

This documentary examines issues related to the struggle for gender equity and the portrayal of suffragettes in the early ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is ...

The 1910s marked the birth of movie stardom, with women playing a central role in shaping this new form of entertainment. In the silent film era, actresses relied entirely on physical expression, ...

Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

The Library of Congress has created a worldwide database to track what's left, a hopeful "road map to finding silent films we once thought were gone forever," Martin Scorsese says. By Mike Barnes ...

The cold, climate-controlled stacks at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport made the ideal place for film student Dan Martin to spend last summer as an intern: in a basement out of the heat, ...

Today, silent films still are celebrated and enjoyed at film festivals – even some festivals that only screen silent films. September 28 of this year was deemed National Silent Film Day. Companies ...