This list is an attempt to highlight the best silent films, not the most historically significant ones. That’s not to say there’s not overlap, or that historical context can’t play a part in ...

Charlie Chaplin is one of the greatest silent film stars and movies like The Great Dictator and City Lights show why he was one of the best. Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's famed 1886 novella ...

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 ...

Film historian Ben Model talks to IndieWire about his new book 'The Silent Film Universe' and his company Undercrank ...

This 1952 movie follows a silent film company and actors as they ... this is widely regarded as one of the best musicals of all time. This Bette Davis classic follows a woman who gets in with ...

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 ...