Think modern celebrity scandals are intense? Discover 16 silent film stars whose shockingly tragic biographies completely ...

Discover the tragic history of early Hollywood with 17 silent film actors who built fortunes only to be completely ruined by ...

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 ...

Jane Gaines, Professor of Film at Columbia University, speaks about the influence of women in the silent film industry ...

On Nov. 13, the Orinda Theatre hosted the annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival — a festival exploring the archives from the silent movie era of the 1920s that have since awaited their time to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Numerous iconic Hollywood films from the last 50 years have been selected for the National Film Registry. The Library of Congress ...

There is a common misconception that the earliest era of cinema was a quiet affair. In reality, the “silent” films of the late 1890s to 1920s were loud, vibrant, and alive, driven by the thunderous, ...

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) has announced the 2025–26 lineup for its popular Silent Movie Mondays series at The Paramount Theatre. Four landmark films from the silent era will return to the big screen ...

When thinking about the classic Hollywood era of filmmaking, we tend to think about movies made under the restrictive, prudish rules of the Hays Code. Protestant moralism meant that films after 1934 ...

Is it me, or does popcorn always taste better when you are eating it in a very old, classic movie theater? Upstate New York has dozens of old movie houses that are either pushing 100 years old or have ...