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A look at how the action movie was influenced by literature and how Douglas Fairbanks became cinema's first action star.

A quick look at Wall-E's design, how he communicates and why Pixar's choices were effective.

Combining controversial subject matter and groundbreaking cinematography, D.W. Griffith's epic film remains a classic nearly a century after its release.

As a film setting Los Angeles has proven able to fulfill a variety of disparate tasks.

Tinseltown is held under the microscope in Billy Wilder's Sunet Blvd., a fascinating, unique piece of cinema history.

The making of Hollywood's greatest musical was riddled with problems, illness, personalities and tears, some surprising and some inspiring.

Carl Dreyer's 1932 film is a masterpiece of early sound, phantasmagoric imagery, and macabre themes.

Featuring famous celebrities whose passing away falls on Christmas Day, December 25th. They include Joan Miro, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Karel Capek, and Yoshihito.

The 2007 AFI's 100 top movies has nearly two dozen great films that were not nominated for best picture by the Academy Awards. Here are a few of these.

The term "classic film" is subjective, no matter how you splice it, but a case can be made that the categorization covers the 1930s through the 1970s.

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari was one of the leading films of the Expressionist cinema movement during 1920s Germany. Read on for critical and contextual analysis.

Douglas Fairbanks became the first actor to play Robin Hood on film in this 1922 swashbuckler directed by Allan Dwan.

The Gangster film is a sub-genre of the crime film that explores organized crime and the people involved. Here are five examples of excellent gangster films.

AFI's list of top 10 romantic comedies make great date night movie rentals. Since they're classics, rentals can be found free or for less than new DVD rentals.

The 1920s comprised the Golden Age of Silent Movies. These three epic films set during the American and French Revolutions are part of the reason why.

After 60 years, the owners of cartoon star Felix the Cat decided that the Kit-Cat Klock looks too much like their creation.

In case you haven't noticed, vampires are so in right now. Thank HBO's True Blood and the Twilight series (the books and movies) for covering the generational spread.

Short biography of the 1920s actress known for her captivating beauty, style and intelligence.

A great European film of the 1920s, Pandora's Box stars the American actor whose personal tragedy mirrors that of her iconic character, a sexually adventurous innocent.

The Lost World's stop-action animation dinosaurs, created by early special effects master Willis O'Brien, are the real stars of this 1920s silent science fiction movie.

In the 1930's Errol Flynn starred in Captain Blood and became the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, the man who had pioneered the swashbuckler.

Stagecoach is widely seen as one of the best westerns and most important films made. Critics praise it for its rich drama and artful photography of Monument Valley.

A new two-DVD set from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment pairs what is arguably director Peter Bogdanovich's best film with one of his weaker efforts.

Based on Jewish folklore The Golem of 1920 was part of the German Expressionist movement that revolutionized the Horror genre and film-making across the West.

Remember the Night is not the best known of Christmas films. But it's among the finest Hollywood ever produced -- smart, sweet and rivaling far better known holiday fare.