All Silent Film Serials

Silent films released in weekly or periodic episodes, each ending on a suspenseful cliffhanger, which hooked audiences into returning to the cinema. Their crime and adventure stories, from the American Perils of Pauline to the French Les Vampires, created habits of serial viewing that television later inherited. A work belongs here when its article calls it a serial. Works are placed by what their cited article states about their country, form and period, and each work sits in exactly one group of this subcategory, so a film that fits two traditions goes where its article places it first.