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 ...

With a filmography including over forty films, Bara was one of the most prolific stars of the silent era. As a partially lost ...

(Courtesy) A death-defying rescue; a robbery involving trains; a love triangle: the 1926 silent film “The ... Black audiences during the era of segregation. Race films, as they were called ...

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 ...

Today, a war film that lacks gunshots, explosions, powerful monologues, and cries of anguish might seem dull. Yet, in the Silent Era (1910–1927), audiences had to settle for such cinematic ...