A few decades after the first experiments with the new technology of film, cinema in the 1920s was beginning to come of age. Filmmakers mastered the essentials and embarked on ambitious ...

Off-screen, in the 1920s, Wong was a flapper ... positive images of China and the Chinese in a number of ­Hollywood movies, culminating in King of Chinatown (1939), in which she plays Dr Mary ...

Only four movies have ever won both the Palme d'Or at Cannes and Best Picture at the Oscars, but which of them stands as the greatest overall?

TIME’s Stephanie Zacharek on the top films from the 1920s through the 2010s Project editors: Eliza Berman and Lucy Feldman Art and design: Katie Kalupson and Victor Williams. Illustrations by ...

A film star from 1920 until her death from tuberculosis in 1926, Barbara La Marr was known as "The Girl Who Is Too Beautiful" after a juvenile judge she was facing said she was too young and ...