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

From Greta Garbo to Charlie Chaplin, these are the biggest stars from the silent film era.

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

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 ...

The beloved dog starred in six movies during the Roaring Twenties. After Strongheart died in 1929, author J. Allen Boone ...

Betsy Green Local historian and author Betsy J. Green will give a talk titled “Silents on the Islands,” 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept ...

Today, the silent-film era is largely remembered for its cavalcade of iconic comedians, people like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy, who would contort their bodies ...

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 ...

When thinking about the classic Hollywood era of filmmaking, we tend to think about movies made under the restrictive, prudish rules of the Hays Code. Protestant moralism meant that films after ...

Robert Eggers’ lushly gothic remake of “Nosferatu” is a loving homage to silent films, with its dramatic black-and-white scenes and overpowering sense of creeping dread. The eerie images of ...