1. "This strange land of sunshine and beauty": selig polyscope and the invention of the western-film genre -- 2. "Plenty of soldiers, cowboys, Indians, trappers, et cetera": the Chicago studios and ...

The Early Cinema Film and Ephemera Collection [COLL.PHOTOS.000038] includes over 50 pieces of notable motion picture film and more than 80 posters, photographs, and other ephemeral objects from cinema ...

After being lost in a Soviet vault for decades, the first feature film made in Idaho, in 1919, is now returning to screens. It includes significant depictions of Nez Perce tribal members.

Seventy-five percent of the film made in the original silent-era have been lost forever, according to a new comprehensive study from the Library of Congress. The study is the first to quantify what ...

David Thomson curates a 45-film, three-month Classic Westerns series at Stanford Theatre in 35 mm through December.

From pioneering classics like Stagecoach to revisionist masterpieces like Unforgiven, these 20th-century Western hits define the genre's greatness.