During Hollywood’s early years, women commonly occupied positions of filmmaking power. In the silent era there were a dozen women directors and several dozen women screenwriters. A couple of women ...

Ireland’s submission for the Academy Awards will receive its London premiere at the opening night of the Women and the World ...

Hinako's hypersexualization is a betrayal to the Silent Hill franchise as a whole and its longstanding theme of exploring ...

With Taylor Swift singing songs about Clara Bow, audiences have turned their attention to the first days of cinema. But even the most hardened Swiftie might find themselves confused by a strange ...

The rise of cinema in Egypt in the 1910s and 1920s introduced a new chapter in national art, with silent films redefining how ...

Texans You Should Know is a series highlighting overlooked figures and events from Texas history. On May 12, 1966, spectators packed into a Los Angeles County Superior Court building. They were ...

A 30-minute montage of century-old newsreels stands as one of the most emotional film experiences I’ve had this year.

Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

A study from the Library of Congress reveals for the first time how many feature films produced by U.S. studios during the silent film era still exist, what condition they’re in and where they are ...