Our treasures include the famous masterpieces of silent film such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and the German films of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau ... Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) (1920) ...

For the most part, they have been examined as spectacles or practical tools. In contrast, Special Effects and German Silent Film, foregrounds their function as an expressive device and their pivotal ...

In 1920, a German silent film made cinematic history. It is still revered by film buffs a hundred years later. The film ...

In 1920, a German silent film made cinematic history. It is still revered by film buffs a hundred years later. The film focuses on a mad hypnotist (Dr. Caligari) who brainwashes a man and then ...

Nosferatu’ was not the first vampire film, but it is (arguably) the oldest surviving one. Discover more about the legal ...

A 1920s Art Deco cinema is marking its centenary with a silent film festival of restored films, some of which were first shown there 100 years ago. The Rex in Wareham, Dorset, is showing 11 films ...

Wirsching had worked with German filmmaker Franz Osten at the Emelka Film Studios in Munich for The Light of Asia, a classic silent film on the life of Buddha in the 1920s. His first visit to ...