Silent Shakespeare

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issue...

In 1916, twenty-year-old Marion Wong wrote and directed The Curse of Quon Gwon, the earliest example of an Asian American film. What initially appears...

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

Araki Mataemon was a very strong warrior, and his feud against the samurai Kawai Matagorō is one of the most famous in Japan. Matagoro killed Gendayu,...

The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.

An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.

In this partially lost silent film, a man working as a motion picture extra in Hollywood westerns impresses a visiting sheikh with his boxing skills a...

This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935),released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Ligh...

Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

A silent movie by Rober Wiene.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the be...