One of the most inspirational sci-fi movies of all time, 'Blade Runner' and Ridley Scott owe a lot to this silent classic.

Filmgoers have long been captivated by stories about robots. We are fascinated by their utopian promise, their superhuman intelligence and, in the case of the cyborg, their often uncanny resemblance ...

Seriously, as one of the first iconic epics “Metropolis” hinges on a robot, and that movie came out in 1927. In the intervening years, there have been hundreds of robots in film.

The year before Eric’s London performance, a female robot, Maria, starred in the silent movie, Metropolis, a German science-fiction film set in a futuristic utopian society.

(Image credit: Parufamet) Brigitte Helm - Maschinenmensch (Metropolis) One of the most essential silent era movies is director Fritz Lang's 1927 adaptation of Thea von Harbou's 1925 novel ...