Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our ancestors are movie stars. A California film preservation company has discovered “The Portage Trail,” a 1915 motion picture ...

I realized, while digging into this story of a failed Cincinnati movie company, that it’s a crappy movie itself. Betrayals everywhere! Heroes are really villains! Families and marriages explode! Zoo ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- They say to know where you're going, you must know where you've been. One local historian believes that's true, and to make sure we don't forget anytime soon, he's sharing his ...

D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation" was America’s first epic blockbuster, and the first feature film to screen at the White House. The 1915 film’s plot glorified the Ku Klux Klan in a re-imagined ...

A 1915 movie about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island. “The Heart of Lincoln,” released by Universal, is a silent film about American life during ...

Feb. 5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long Island. Dan Martin, a summer intern at Historic Films ...

Music historian James Karst explains his recent research into the early life of the legendary Louis Armstrong. Satchmo In His Adolescence: 1915 Film Clip May Show Young Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong ...

A lot of kids grow up in New Orleans not knowing much about jazz. That was the case with me and my sisters. Never mind that the clarinettist Pete Fountain was always on television back then, or that ...