Rain Experimental Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens made this short film titled Rain at the end of the silent film era. It...

1920 Halloween Triple Feature! John Barrymore and his great profile as Dr. Jekyll Today's super scary Halloween triple featur...

This is my choice (choices) for Best Picture for the year 1929.  My criteria is that I can only use films that are on the 1001 list. ...

This is my choice for Best Picture for 1928. My criteria is that I can only use films that are on the 1001 list. To make it a little eas...

I have decided to name my choice for Best Picture for the year of the first Academy Award (1927)  My criteria is that I can only use f...

"With his silent productions, he (Abel Gance) made a fuller use of the medium than anyone before or since." -Kevin Brownlee, The ...

Well defined characters in The Adventures of Prince Achmed The Adventures of Prince Achmed  is listed in most sources as being the o...

Tom O'Brien, John Gilbert and Karl Dane lead The Big Parade New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall called The Big Parade the Best Mov...

Mabuse in disguise in Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler I feel lucky that when I was growing up there were many opportunities to see silent fe...

 R. F. K. Scott and his band of explorers in The Great White Silence The Great White Silence is documentary filmmaker Herbert Pont...

"With his silent productions, J'Accuse, La Roue , and Napoleon, he (Abel Gance) made a fuller use of the medium than anyone else....

Seeta Devi loves a man with an addiction in A Throw of Dice "Beautiful though the scenes of India are in   Throw of Dice , a Hin...

Could the suitor to the princess really be nothing but a common thief? Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad "It is an entran...

Earth "Alexander Dovzhenko's ode to the beginning of collectivization in the Ukraine is a riot of delirious imagery of swa...