Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton are the two main comics from the silent era, but if those are the only names you know, then Harold Lloyd will be a happy discovery. His movie Safety Last!is ...

There's long been a misconception that action films are a masculine domain. But female strength and agility have been ...

Think of silent cinema and chances are a number of images will come to mind. Count Orlok’s shadow on the stairs in Nosferatu (1922), perhaps, or the cityscapes of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). But ...

These new crime films were different from the morality tales of the silent era's crime genre. Their ethnic characters, pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, were the new archetypal Americans.

No One Will Save You is an interesting sci-fi horror flick that seemingly offers a modern spin on the silent film era. Not ...

Between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the 'silent' era at the end of the 1920s, many of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic ...

The iconic Sherlock Holmes' early adventures have been brought back to life in a newly restored 1920s silent film series. How many of the best comedies in movie history have you seen? The Quickest ...

It might not be surprising therefore that the best-known Polish film to survive this era was a Yiddish musical Yidl mitn Fidl / Yiddle with His Fiddle (1936). The film was shot in Kraków's Kazimierz ...