Much of silent cinema is lost to us forever. In an illuminating report from 2013 titled “The Survival of American Silent Feature Films: 1912-1929,” historian and archivist David Pierce revealed that ...

How a Twitter feed about often forgotten classics of Black film — from silent pictures to the age of blaxploitation — became a virtual vault dedicated to the preservation of a rich cinematic legacy.

Institutions working on film restoration around the world are deploying remarkable creativity to get the films they’ve restored into theaters – the Lumière Institute’s eponymous film festival ...

Those who want to know who wrote Cooley High or where Shaft In Africa was filmed, can now do so through the Black Film Archive, an online database of Black films. “I have always leaned on Black cinema ...

If you saw the most recent incarnation of “Candyman” from director Nia DaCosta — all of it shot in Chicago, some of which takes place amid the remaining Cabrini row houses — you might be compelled to ...

AGFA's executive director Jackson Cooper and theatrical sales director Bret Berg talk to IndieWire about restoring, preserving, and exhibiting outsider art and making it available to the widest ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — As the Cleveland International Film Festival nears its 50th anniversary, its history is getting a permanent ...

LGBTQ media advocacy organization The Rainbow Project has launched an archive dedicated to chronicling queer storylines in ...

Rare documentaries, newsreels, commercials and more are now available for viewing with English subtitles. TEL AVIV (JTA) – For years, only those with special permission could visit the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Basement Films archives are officially moving into their new home at CNM. The archive, which specializes in 8mm and 16mm films, was kicked out of its previous space at UNM in ...