Object of the week
Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
How much history is it possible to hide inside a milk churn?
By Rebecca Vick
Object of the week: The milk churns that rewrote film history
All articles about Silent film
Features
A century of cinephilia: the legacy of the Film Society
By Henry K Miller
Features
Phantom rides and kisses in tunnels: the Victorian craze for train films
By Bryony Dixon
10 great
10 great Soviet films of the 1920s
By David Parkinson
Object of the week
Object of the week: 96-year-old footage of Alfred Hitchcock in a test take for his thriller Blackmail
By Bryony Dixon
Object of the week
Object of the week: promotional still for the lost silent romcom Swim Girl, Swim
By Eva Norton
Features
28mm: the forgotten home movie gauge
By Christopher Bird
10 great
10 great films of 1925
By Pamela Hutchinson
Lists
The birth of action: 10 sensational stunts from the silent era
By David Parkinson
News
Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival
Restoration of Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases to premiere at the 68th BFI London Film Festival10 great
10 great films of 1924
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
Napoleon: 10 unmissable highlights from Abel Gance’s five-and-a-half-hour masterpiece
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
These rural English comedies from the silent era are gobsmackingly beautiful
By Bryony Dixon
10 great
10 great films of 1923
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great
10 great British silent films
By Bryony Dixon, Neil Brand and others
News
Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration project
Silent Sherlock Holmes series of the 1920s gets major restoration projectFeatures
How the Lulu bob became cinema’s most imitated haircut
By Pamela Hutchinson
BFI Recommends
BFI Recommends: The Great White Silence
By Angelo Lucatello
Where to stream
Where to stream the best silent films
By Pamela Hutchinson
Where to begin
Where to begin with Lillian Gish
By Pamela Hutchinson
News
Lost for nearly a century, Love, Life and Laughter screens as BFI LFF’s Archive Special Presentation with live musical accompaniment
Lost for nearly a century, Love, Life and Laughter screens as BFI LFF’s Archive Special Presentation with live musical accompanimentWhere to begin
Where to begin with early women filmmakers
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
How Weimar cinema influenced 6 modern genres
By Alex Barrett
Features
How the Victorians first saw their world on film
By Bryony Dixon
Features
4 hard-and-fast rules of filmmaking... and how The Passion of Joan of Arc breaks them
By Alex Barrett
10 great
10 great silent romances
By Pamela Hutchinson
Where to begin
Where to begin with city symphonies
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
The serial-killer thriller that launched Alfred Hitchcock’s career
By Pamela Hutchinson
Features
Metropolis at 90: 5 early sci-fi films that paved the way for Fritz Lang’s classic
By Pamela Hutchinson
10 great
10 great silent epics
By Pamela Hutchinson