The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

British actor, director, screenwriter and producer Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin and American actor Tom Murray in a scene from "The Gold Rush." While there are modern silent classics, such as ...

Before movies had sound, female silent film stars told stories through movement, expression, and quiet magic shown on screen. In the 1920s, a remarkable group of women became some of the most ...

Looking back now, there is the impression that all old silent films were black and white, the advent of sound in the mid-to-late 1920s marking the first great milestone on the march to our 3D, ...

In Birth of the Pearl, an early silent film (1901) by Frederick S. Armitage, a woman slowly rises from a giant oyster shell. She looks annoyed to be awake, rolling her eyes, and striking a halfhearted ...

There is perhaps only one place in America that shows weekly silent movies on antique projectors using the original film prints, the light flickering across the screen as stories unfold. And that is ...

Kathryn Boyd and Laurence Criner star in "The Flying Ace" (1926), a crime melodrama with an all-Black cast. The film, which was produced at the time for Black audiences in segregated theaters, will be ...

The Library of Congress has created a worldwide database to track what's left, a hopeful "road map to finding silent films we once thought were gone forever," Martin Scorsese says. By Mike Barnes ...