Latvian animated feature Flow has made Oscars history as the first Academy Award win ever for the country. The film had been ...

Only one truly silent film has triumphed at the Oscars, and it's held this remarkable record for a very long time.

is the very first animated film. It was, as all films were then, silent. Telling stories without words became a staple of animation, with early shorts like Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell ...

Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" ...

Male actors played all roles, as women were not allowed to act in films at that time. Phalke trained men to play female characters.

During Hollywood’s Silent Era, few child stars reached the heights of fame as quickly as Baby Peggy. While Jackie Coogan charmed audiences in The Kid (1921) and Shirley Temple later defined child ...