A seminal figure of the French Impressionist film movement of the 1920s, Jean Epstein is best remembered today for his silent horror classic The Fall of the House of Usher, an adaptation of Edgar ...

â â â â â â This silent film, written, directed, and produced by Abel Gance, is one of the masterpieces of early cinema and ...

The silent movie era is generally considered to have begun in 1894 ... The "Three-Fingered Kate" short film -- "Kate Purloins ...