Silent motion pictures

Films by genre, 1993 (silent film: the term is self-explanatory as it applies to a film without sound track or to a film of the "silent era," that is, up to 1928 when sound pictures became commercially available. However, silent films were never strictly silent but were usually accompanied by music; practically ceased to exist by 1929)

This heading is used as a genre/form heading for films produced in the early days of the motion picture industry before the advent of talking films.