Women had far more influence in the silent era than at any other point in cinema history, with people like Mabel Normand, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Dorothy Arzner directing at the time.

The enduring legacy of the 1925 film – with Lon Chaney as a villainous Phantom – is complicated by its tangled release ...

The Cleveland Silent Film Festival features a series of 100-year-old films including works by Buster Keaton and F.W. Murnau, ...

From The Matrix closing out the millennium to Stalker serving as Tarkovsky's last Soviet film, these 10 sci-fi movies marked ...

Essanay Studios, founded in 1907 by George K. Spoor and Gilbert M. Anderson, helped shape the foundation of the American film industry.

A study from the Library of Congress reveals for the first time how many feature films produced by U.S. studios during the silent film era still exist, what condition they’re in and where they ...

America has long been home to enthusiastic movie fans. Even back in the 1910s and 1920s, a period in American film history known as the "silent era," Americans poured into theaters across the country ...

ATHENS, Ohio — Dennis James returns to the Southeast Ohio History Center for a special Silent Movie Monday performance of “Stage Struck!” on April 7. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m. Attendees ...

Although the Talmadge sisters no longer hold the same star power they did in the 1920s, the streets named after them are a lasting tribute to their contribution to Hollywood’s silent film era.

Buster Keaton thought his 1924 parody of Sherlock Holmes was just “alright,” according to one biography. But over a century ...

Before the introduction of sound changed cinema forever, filmmakers had to create visual experiences that could engage an audience without dialogue. Because of this, horror movies depended on ...