Lost films are cinema’s ghosts—works once projected before packed houses, now reduced to titles, reviews, still photographs, and the fading testimony of those who saw them when they were alive. This page is devoted to the movies that time, neglect, fire, and indifference erased: silent epics that vanished with their nitrate negatives, early sound films discarded as obsolete, and ambitious productions that slipped through the cracks before anyone fully understood how fragile film truly was. Alongside these vanished works, this page also explores the parallel history of film preservation—the archivists, collectors, and institutions who fought to save what could still be rescued, and the ongoing efforts to protect cinema from further loss. Here you’ll find stories not only of what disappeared, but why it disappeared, how those absences reshaped film history, and what fragments—if any—remain to remind us that cinema, like memory itself, survives only when it is deliberately preserved.