Waxworks (1924) Directed by Paul Leni

Harold Lloyd in Hey There! (1918)

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain. I guess I'm kind of biased, but I prefer the "international version" of the movie, which is basically a silent film with a recorded soundtrack of music and sound effects

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was released 100 years ago today, on Dec. 30, 1925. It would go on to be one of the highest-grossing movies of the silent era

Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) is a Soviet science fiction film directed by Yakov Protazanov

Napoléon (1927) Directed by Abel Gance

Charley Chase in There Ain't No Santa Claus (1926)

The Night Before Christmas (1905)

Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin and Bud Jamison in By the Sea (1915)

Battleship Potemkin was released 100 years ago today, on Dec. 21, 1925

Cartoons in the 1910s could get pretty dark

Harold Lloyd in The Kid Brother (1927)

Buster Keaton in Go West (1925)

The final shot of Sunrise (1927)

Mabel Normand's Mickey (1918) was one of the biggest hits of the silent era. By one estimate, it sold around 42 million tickets

Die Bergkatze (1921) Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Buster Keaton in Out West (1918)

Sarah Bernhardt was one of the most famous actors of the 19th century. She appeared in a few silent films, including Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912)

Douglas Fairbanks in The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Billy West was the most famous Chaplin imitator of the silent era

Lil Dagover in Tartuffe (1926) Directed by F. W. Murnau

Harold Lloyd in Next Aisle Over (1919)

Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

The Columbia Pictures logo circa 1928

Roscoe Arbuckle flipping a pancake in Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)

Josephine Baker in La Sirène des tropiques (1927)

Fluttering Hearts (1927)

Charlie Chaplin in The Circus (1928)

Pepper was one of cinema's first feline stars. She appeared in dozens of films between 1913 and 1928

The trailer is all that's known to remain of The Patriot (1928), which won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for Best Picture

Buster Keaton in Three Ages (1923)

Her First Biscuits (1909) marked the film debut of Mary Pickford. On IMDb her role is listed as "Biscuit Victim"

Bebe Daniels in Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

Metropolis (1927) Directed by Fritz Lang

Anita Garvin and Marion Byron were teamed together by Hal Roach in a bid to create a female equivalent to Laurel and Hardy. They made three silent comedy shorts, including Feed 'Em and Weep (1928)

Nov. 5, 1925: "The Big Parade" premieres in Los Angeles. The WWI epic will become the blockbuster movie of the decade, generating an eye-popping gross of $6 million. It sets a standard for realism and excitement in war films and makes a major star of its lead, John Gilbert. 1/6

King Vidor's First World War epic The Big Parade premiered 100 years ago today. It would go on to huge box office success, reportedly ranking as the second-highest-grossing film of the silent era after The Birth of a Nation

That Night's Wife (1930) Directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Max Linder in Entente cordiale (1912)

Faust (1926) Directed by F.W. Murnau

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience…than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.” -Carl Dreyer

Häxan (1922), an early example of a horror film that was framed as a documentary

I highly recommend the Méliès museum in Paris

Nosferatu (1922)

Here is an excerpt of my conversation with @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1908. Links in quoted post!

Really enjoyed talking about some films from 1908. If you are interested in silent film, you should really check out this podcast, I've learned a lot about the early years of cinema by listening to it

1908 in cinema

1908 E3 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Don McHoull, @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social, joins me to talk comedy, tricks, and drama. And he highlights a few GIF-able moments from the movies! Links 👇

Nothing suspicious here, just Greta Garbo dropping a smoking gun. The Mysterious Lady (1928)

Mary Pickford's Little Annie Rooney was released 100 years ago today, on Oct. 18, 1925