Looking over the books on my shelves, and not forgetting those piled on the floor, I find volumes of different degrees of scholarly substance devoted to the difficult transition experienced by film ...

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 ...

Sherlock Holmes fans are being promised a most authentic depiction of the fictional detective, with the restoration of a century-old silent film series chronicling the London sleuth's adventures.

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 ...

The film historian and accompanist talks to IndieWire about his work as a "missionary" for silent movies and his company's physical media releases of new restorations of two classic Tom Tyler Westerns ...

Combine the three streaming platforms listed below to get access to a wonderful selection of silent films. Movies today can be awfully…well, loud. Even if the particular movie you’re watching doesn’t ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...

In 2014, on the 100th anniversary of the World War I Christmas Truce, former All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro set out to reconstruct the events of that day.

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Long before Alfred Hitchcock became a household name associated with classics like “Psycho” and “Dial M for Murder,” he began his filmmaking career in the U.K. But even before releasing 1930s British ...