A few decades after the first experiments with the new technology of film, cinema in the 1920s was beginning to come of age. Filmmakers mastered the essentials and embarked on ambitious ...

TIME’s Stephanie Zacharek on the top films from the 1920s through the 2010s Project editors: Eliza Berman and Lucy Feldman Art and design: Katie Kalupson and Victor Williams. Illustrations by ...

The British Broadcasting Company’s first daily ... in the same way that film plays are written for effect by sight only”. His solution is to write a play set in a coal mine.

Of the nearly four-minute silent video, the Irish Film Institute says: “This newsreel is set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the early 1920s ... Topical budget and British Pathé newsreels ...