Lost Films

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 of preservation before anyone realized how fragile film truly was. Here you’ll find stories not only of what was lost, but why it was lost, how those disappearances reshaped film history, and what fragments—if any—remain to remind us that cinema, like memory itself, survives only when it is protected.