Editing Silat Melayu (section)

===Film===
Silat have been present in Malay cinema since the 1950s. Major studios centred in [[Singapore]], [[Shaw Brothers]] and [[Cathay Organisation|Cathay-Keris]], have produced a number of well-known classics in a genre known as ''purba'' ('ancient') films,<ref>{{harvnb|Norman Yusoff|2013|p=87}}</ref> that features the traditional Malay warriors and silat,<ref>{{harvnb|Norman Yusoff|2013|p=107}}</ref> and largely based on fictional stories, folklores or even history.<ref>{{harvnb|Norman Yusoff|2013|pp=86–87}}</ref> One particularly famous title was ''[[Hang Tuah (film)|Hang Tuah]]'' released in 1956. It is based on the ''[[Hikayat Hang Tuah]]'' and recognised as the first Malay movie to be fully shot in [[Eastman colour]] film. Other notable titles include ''Semerah Padi'' (1956), ''[[Musang Berjanggut]]'' (1959), ''[[Pendekar Bujang Lapok]]'' (1959), ''Seri Mersing'' (1961), ''Hang Jebat'' (1961), ''Panglima Besi'' (1964), ''Enam Jahanam'' (1969) and ''Serikandi'' (1969).

By the late 70s and throughout the 1980s, when the centre of Malay film productions was shifted to [[Kuala Lumpur]], the popularity of ''purba'' films began to wane when Malay cinema was dominated by more female-oriented genres such as women's films, family melodramas and romance. There were however still emerged a number of fully-fledged and better choreographed action-martial arts films like ''Loceng Maut'' (1976), ''Pendekar'' (1977) and ''Anak Sulong Tujuh Keturunan'' (1982).<ref>{{harvnb|Norman Yusoff|2013|p=104}}</ref> While purba films became increasingly rare on-screen in the 90s, two films revisited the story of Hang Tuah, but combining both ''purba'' and modern setting, ''Tuah'' (1990) and XX-Ray II (1995).<ref name="Norman Yusoff 2013 108">{{harvnb|Norman Yusoff|2013|p=108}}</ref> Similar setting are also applied in an [[animated movie]], ''Silat Legenda'' (1998), again based on the legend of Hang Tuah. In the year 2000s, silat was featured to varying degrees of importance in popular Malay movies such as ''Jiwa Taiko'', ''Gong'', ''[[KL Gangster]]'', ''[[Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam]]'', and the colour remake of ''[[Orang Minyak]]''. In 2004, ''[[Puteri Gunung Ledang (film)|Puteri Gunung Ledang]]'' was released, it was a remake of a ''purba'' film  of 1961 of [[Puteri Gunong Ledang (film)|the same title]], and was promoted as an epic romance that draws on episodic tale of [[Hang Tuah]]. It was Malaysia's first big-budget movie that featured two highly publicised fights choreographed by a silat exponent.<ref name="Norman Yusoff 2013 108"/>

By 2010s, fully-fledged action-martial arts films regained its popularity in Malaysia, which successfully embraced the modern setting for its plot, rather than the traditional ''purba''-style. Films like ''[[Wira (film)|Wira]]'' (2019) and ''[[Geran (film)|Geran]]'' (2019) are among the examples. ''[[Queens of Langkasuka]]'', released in 2008, is the first Thai film to prominently feature silat. Among the few other Thai movies to do so is 2008's ''[[Ong-Bak 2]]'' which only briefly features a style of tiger silat. The 2014 Brunei movie ''[[Yasmine (film)|Yasmine]]'' is about a teenage female protagonist who learns silat.<ref>{{Citation|title=Yasmine (2014) (Review)|url=https://kungfukingdom.com/yasmine-movie-review/|access-date=7 January 2019}}</ref>