Essential movies of the 1930s and '40s, from 'King Kong' to 'The Heiress' The year 1939 alone -- considered perhaps the best in cinematic history -- provides an exhaustive list of "essential" movies, ...

Pauline Moore, a scary psychic in “Charlie Chan at Treasure Island,” Abraham Lincoln’s ill-fated true love Ann Rutledge in “The Young Mr. Lincoln,” and Shirley Temple’s schoolmarm in “Heidi,” has died ...

The Lion King, Spirited Away, Snow White, Cinderella, and more make up our list of the best animated movies from each decade ...

Thousands of movies have been filmed in the Land of Enchantment since the invention of the video camera, but how many films ...

In 1927, a 14-year-old girl named Alice Norberg left the fox farm in West Petersburg where she was raised and boarded a ...

These days, it seems as though you can't go anywhere without seeing someone taking a photo or video on their cell phone. However, back in the 1930s, home movie equipment was expensive and complicated.

Each year the Library of Congress adds 25 “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant films to the National Film Registry. This year’s selections include four silent films, five ...

Robert J. Booker is a freelance writer and former executive director of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center. Until just a few years ago I was a consummate movie goer. I went to see a film at least two ...