8 Hilarious Silent Comedies

If you’ve never seen Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, or Harold Lloyd, these are some good ones. (I would start with Chaplin or Keaton, then Lloyd later—he’s enjoyable but I wouldn’t put him on quite the same level as the first two.) They’re relatively short (an hour to an hour and a half, and Sherlock Jr. is only 45 minutes), and many of them are now in the public domain and available to watch on YouTube and elsewhere. Even my kids like them!