Essential Silent Films To Experience Before You Die

Silent films undeservedly get a bad rap today. When most people think of silent films, their first thoughts either go to flickering images of people frantically running around and throwing pies at each other, or to stills of damsels being tied to railroad tracks by mustached villains, or to horrifically racist films, such as D.W. Griffith’s truly disgusting The Birth Of A Nation (1915), where minorities are portrayed as evil manipulators or buffoonish servants. In reality, those stereotypical silent films were extremely rare for their era, and not surprisingly, those images that twirl around in the public’s minds come straight...