Movies beginning with B

A Keystone comedy that helped popularise rural slapstick and the studio’s chaotic, fast-paced style before Chaplin became its defining star.

A major early screen adaptation of Lew Wallace’s bestseller, notable for bringing Biblical spectacle and the famous chariot race into American cinema.

The first appearance on the screen of Gilbert M. Anderson's hugely popular Western hero, Broncho Billy.

William S. Hart’s feature debut helped shift Western acting toward greater restraint and launched his defining persona as a morally troubled anti-hero.

Griffith’s technically transformative epic popularized feature-scale spectacle, but its racist Reconstruction narrative glorified the Ku Klux Klan and caused enduring harm.

Buster Keaton’s film debut, alongside Roscoe Arbuckle, introduced the future comic master to movies in a brisk slapstick short.