The silent era was the first major period in cinematic history. Spanning the medium's inception all the way to the late 1920s ...

Called one of the greatest films of the silent era by many critics, the 1927 romantic drama “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans,” will be shown at Movie Night at the Museum on Jan. 23.

“Broken Blossoms,” a product of the silent film era based on Thomas Burke’s 1916 short story, “The Chink and the Child,” was “Hollywood’s first onscreen interracial love story ...