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by zvr 571 days ago
There are already mentions of all the greats in other comments: Keaton, Lloyd, Chaplin, as well as Lang, Murnau, Griffith and others.

I wanted to mention a silent film I watched recently, Lonesome (1928) https://letterboxd.com/film/lonesome/ Although it includes added dialogue (and color!) for a few scenes, it is still considered a silent black-and-white movie. You get a wonderful view of life in a big American city almost a century ago. It is amazing what still remains the same...