The San Francisco Silent Film Festival brings Clara Bow's 1927 hit "It" to the Castro Theatre, celebrating the original "it ...

This week brings the 30th edition of Berlin & Beyond (March 19-23), which first launched in 1996 in a very different San ...

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hosted their first annual Academy Awards on May 16, 1929 — a short, 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with tickets that cost the ...

"One Battle After Another" has now joined the storied best picture canon at the Oscars. We rank all 98 movies to win the ...

The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson is often cited as marking the end of the silent era, with its synchronized recorded music and lip-synchronous singing and speech, the death knell actually rang a ...

The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the decade.

Compared to today's Academy Awards, the first Oscars held in 1929 was a quaint dinner party that honored a history-making best picture.

Which of the 97 films anointed as Best Picture by the Academy are, in reality, the best? And which are the worst? Almost ...

One of the most famous stars in Hollywood, she suffered severe setbacks in the last years of her life. This obituary was originally published on Aug. 6, 1962. It is being republished for a package for ...

Shadow of a Doubt, Heaven Can Wait, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp are all great movies from the year 1943 that we now consider classics.

As Kaya Scodelario celebrates her 34th birthday, we look back at Effy Stonem—the silent, fishnet-clad enigma who didn't just define a show, but created an entire cultural aesthetic that still ...