Some creators still want audiences to focus on what they see and hear on screen, not what their characters say. Here are a ...

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" ...

Some readers might argue that silent cinema newcomers should check out Modern Times much sooner, as many regard it not just the best Chaplin movie but one of the greatest films of all time.

A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long ...

The 1915 motion picture released by Universal was listed by the Library of Congress as among 7,000 silent films ... Awards for Best Director who would go on to make his own movie about Lincoln ...

Nebojša Slijepčević, the director of the Oscar-nominated short "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent," is working on a feature ...

Scores of silent films from that era were lost because they ... the conflict and Lincoln became popular topics in media, according to Virginia film historian David Pierce. Pierce, a retired ...

To some, silent films may seem like a relic of the past. Yet the genre of filmmaking is very much in the present and future for some local students recently awarded for their work. Last month a ...

The 16mm film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of ...