They call it the white whale, the Holy Grail of lost films.
Greed (1924)

They call it the white whale, the Holy Grail of lost films.
The doomed Terra Nova expedition for the South Pole in 1912 ranks behind only one other event, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, in the public imagination of early 20th century English tragedies.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who watches too many movies will be a dweeb.
Soviet montage cinema is one of the most idiosyncratic movements in movie history, and also one of the most influential.
The Last Laugh is tightly bound to the time and place in which it was created.
Silent cinema is full of legendary figures, but none is quite so mythic as Abel Gance.
Buster Keaton’s legacy in cinema history is not just one of the two greatest and most beloved silent era comedians (along with Charlie Chaplin), but one of the medium’s great directors, period.
Erich von Stroheim is a complex and compromised figure from early cinema history.
Documentaries did not properly exist in 1922 as a cinematic form.
F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu is among the earliest horror films to be universally canonized, and it’s not hard to see why