Ashes to Classics: A Silent Film Podcast

10) Die Spinnen/The Spiders (1919 & 1920)

The last of our key figures of Weimar era cinema, as well as the last to leave the country to find sanctuary and prestige in America, Fritz Lang may be the most enduring

9) Das Weib des Phrarao/The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

The most prolific director to make his way over to America after breaking ground and blazing trails in Germany was none other than Ernst Lubitsch—the legendary comic film

8) Der brennende Acker/The Burning Soil (1922)

Some of the most enduring images of film ever conjured—not just of the Silent Era, but of all time— appear as a result of the vivid expressionism manifested in the oeuvre

7) Anders als die Andern/Different from the Others (1919)

During the era of the Weimar Republic, there was famously a known movement advocating for the acceptance and normalization of homesexual people within society. Weimar Ger

6) Algol: Tragödie der Macht (1920)

The cinema of Weimar Germany was one that revolved around a key set of names throughout its brief tenure. Directors and performers were the shining lights of the industry

5) Von morgens bis mitternachts /From Morn to Midnight (1920)

Second only to the star-spangled system of 1920s Hollywood, the German industry during the days of the Weimar Republic is perhaps the most widely recognized of the silent

4) The Toll of the Sea (1922)

The earliest surviving Technicolor feature film persists in cultural heritage not only for its legacy as a vibrant and awe-inspiring pioneer of technical innovation, but

3) Richard III (1912)

With so much early history unrecorded, the "firsts" of cinema remain difficult to definitively establish. It is rare, then, that a film comes along which can tote such a

2) Within Our Gates (1920)

Oscar Micheaux was a pioneering African American filmmaker whose earliest surviving feature, Within Our Gates, grapples directly with the external and internal conflicts

1) A Brief History of Lost Films and the Silent Era

Our inaugural journey into the vault of early film history sees Stephen and David taking a general survey of Silent Movies as a whole and the way in which their legacy is