Silent film: a curated list of silent cinema websites, databases, film directors and stars

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Bright Lights Film Journal
Journal section on silent films.

British silent comedy films. BFI National Archive Catalogues

Brownlow, Kevin. Kevin Brownlow
Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era and restoring film. He has rescued many silent films (including Napoléon) and their history. His initiative in interviewing many largely forgotten, elderly film pioneers in the 1960s and 1970s preserved a legacy of cinema.

Chaplin, Charles

The Charlie Chaplin official website.

Charles Chaplin films.
IMDB

The Charlie Chaplin Archive

Charlie Chaplin Biography

Chaplin A Life: 40 Photo-Essays

Works by or about Charlie Chaplin .
The Internet Archive

Films by Charlie Chaplin at The Internet Archive.

Charlie Chaplin, Wikipedia entry.

Dreyer, Carl

The Carl Dreyer website.

Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Internet Movie Database

The Passion of Joan of Arc (a viewable film at The iNternet Archive)

Early Cinema
An introduction to the first decade of motion pictures and the developments which help shape cinema as we know it today.

Eisenstein, Sergei

Russian Archives/Online Eisenstein

Wikipedia entry on Sergei Eisenstein.

A searchable database of viewable films by Eisenstein. The Internet Archive

Film directories, databases

The Internet Archive of silent films
A collection of feature or short silent films uploaded by archive users.

The Georges Méliès Collection of early silent films at the Internet Archive.

Silent films: free silent films online from Open Culture.
Watch over 100 free silent films. Including some of the most important films ever made. Watch films by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, Charlie Chaplin, Dziga Vertov, D.W. Griffith, Alfred Hitchcock, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and many more.

Silent films, a list from Wikipedia.

Online Films
Internet Archive

Silent films. Greatest silent films.
A selection of silent films in chronological order.