The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of “The Heart of Lincoln,” a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.

Alfred Hitchcock's legacy is primarily defined by his movies in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. But some of his early work was ...

It was, as all films were then, silent. Telling stories without words became a staple of animation, with early shorts like Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell series and Walt Disney’s Silly ...

Image Ford, center, who was an early Hollywood pioneer and the older ... Historic Films Archive Francis Ford played Lincoln nine times in the silent films he directed, including “The Heart ...

Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as “lost” Sonja Anderson ...