Charlie Chaplin
Birthday: 1889-04-16
Place of Birth: Walworth, London, England, UK
Biography: Charles “Charlie” Chaplin (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best-known for his work during the silent film era. He used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency by the end of the 1920s. His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in Kid Auto Races (1914). From 1914 onwards he was writing and directing most of his films, by 1916 he was producing them, and by 1918 he was also composing the music for them. In 1919 he co-founded United Artists. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Chaplin the 10th greatest male screen legend of all time.
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City Lights
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...
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The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...
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The Gold Rush
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
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The Rink
After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating....
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The Pawnshop
A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric custo...
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The Count
A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later...
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Modern Times
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...
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The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan...
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A Countess from Hong Kong
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York....
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The Tramp
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm a...
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Between Showers
Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp a...
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Cruel, Cruel Love
This early Chaplin film has him playing a character quite different from the Tramp for which he woul...
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Dough and Dynamite
Pierre and Jacques are working as waiters at a restaurant where the cooks go on strike. When the two...
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Kid Auto Races at Venice
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Va...
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Laughing Gas
Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anest...
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Mabel's Busy Day
Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the...
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Mabel's Strange Predicament
A tramp gets drunk in a hotel lobby and, upstairs, causes some misunderstandings between Mabel, two ...
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The Fatal Mallet
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty....
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The Masquerader
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed...
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The New Janitor
The hero, a janitor played by Chaplin, is fired from work for accidentally knocking his bucket of wa...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban...
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Monsieur Verdoux
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining inco...
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The Adventurer
The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persec...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a...
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Chaplin Today: A Woman of Paris
"A Woman of Paris" (1923) was the first film Chaplin made for United Artists Film Corporation, which...
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
With a maddening sensuality, the unforgettable actress of the film "A Special Day" embodies the gold...
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Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She l...
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The Hollywood Clowns
Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....
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The Vagabond
A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous comp...
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Limelight
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again fee...
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A King in New York
A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidenta...
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The Circus
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in lov...
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Chaplin at Keystone
Charles Chaplin came to Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios late in 1913 as a little-known British vaude...
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The Idle Class
At an upper class golf resort, a tramp discovers he's the lookalike of a rich man with a beautiful, ...
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The Champion
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training c...
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Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the m...
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Easy Street
A derelict, huddled under the steps of a missionary church, feels enlightened by the sermon of a pas...
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The Immigrant
A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in ...
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Hitler: The Comedy Years
A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture....
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A Jitney Elopement
Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Co...
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Making a Living
A swindler scams a newspaper reporter-photographer and then, not realizing where the man is employed...
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A Film Johnnie
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job),...
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Tango Tangles
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl....
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His Favorite Pastime
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself....
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The Star Boarder
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mo...
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Mabel at the Wheel
A villain, competing with his rival's race car, kidnaps the rival before the race. Mabel decides to ...
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Twenty Minutes of Love
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that...
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Caught in the Rain
When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when h...
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A Busy Day
A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pr...
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The Knockout
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying t...
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Mabel's Married Life
Mabel goes home after being humiliated by a masher whom her husband won't fight. The husband goes of...
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The Property Man
Charlie is in charge of stage props and has trouble with actors' luggage and conflicts over who gets...
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The Face on the Barroom Floor
A painter turned tramp (Chaplin), devastated by losing the woman he was courting as a wealthy man, f...
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Recreation
Charlie begins to woo a woman on a bench, only to have her seaman boyfriend object. After a brick fi...
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Gentlemen of Nerve
Mabel and her beau go to an auto race and are joined by Charlie and his friend. As Charlie's friend ...
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His Musical Career
Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospe...
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His Trysting Places
On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in ...
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Getting Acquainted
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted ...
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His Prehistoric Past
Set mostly in the Stone Age, a prehistoric king, with a harem of wives, rules a beach. Charlie arriv...
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His New Job
When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and r...
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A Night Out
After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds him...
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In the Park
A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and...
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By the Sea
It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edn...
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His Regeneration
A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. B...
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Work
Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The ho...
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A Woman
Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a h...
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The Bank
A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too....
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Shanghaied
A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tr...
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A Night in the Show
Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is...
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Police
Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convi...
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A Burlesque on Carmen
A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run....
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The Floorwalker
An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot...
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The Fireman
Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on...
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One A.M.
A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night...
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Behind the Screen
During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring a...
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The Cure
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos....
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Triple Trouble
As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept ...
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The Bond
A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to he...
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Shoulder Arms
An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enem...
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Sunnyside
An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle....
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A Day's Pleasure
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial....
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Nice and Friendly
This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has ...
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The Pilgrim
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church....
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Camille: The Fate of a Coquette
A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. A...
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A Thief Catcher
Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime....
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Her Friend the Bandit
A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-direct...
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Chaplin's Limelight: Its Evolution and Intimacy
A video essay on Charlie Chaplin's film "Limelight" (1952)....
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The Professor
Professor Bosco, a poor flea trainer, rents a bed in a flophouse. Before going to bed, he rallies hi...
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The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and h...
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The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy
In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions ...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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Life Begins Tomorrow
Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie ...
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When Comedy Was King
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, B...
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The Gentleman Tramp
A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin....
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How to Make Movies
This film was never released for the general public. It was hidden in Chaplin's private vaults for f...
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All at Sea
"All at Sea" is a short documentary of Cooke, Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard all on Chaplin's ...
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Crazy Days
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty A...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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Hitler: A Career
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Sports on the Silver Screen
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev...
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A Night at the Cinema in 1914
Cinema a century ago was a new, exciting and highly democratic form of entertainment. Picture houses...
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The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo...
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Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on...
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Hollywood on Parade No. B-5
Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots....
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The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
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German Giants
At the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland, we see the red-hot favourites Hungary, led by the legenda...
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Chaplin's Goliath
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie C...
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Birth of the Tramp
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall succ...
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The Chaplin Puzzle
This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It ...
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Hollywood's Second World War
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a h...
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Charlie Chaplin in Wien
Newsreel footage of Charles Chaplin on his promotional tour of Europe....
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Life and Deaths of Max Linder
Searching for documentation about Max Linder, we found in an abandoned house a trunk sealed for 100 ...
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Days of Thrills and Laughter
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century thr...
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Chaplin Today: Monsieur Verdoux
A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an inte...
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Chaplin Today: Limelight
A short documentary about the making of Chaplin's "Limelight."...
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Chaplin Today: Modern Times
Award-winning filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne profess their love for the classic "Modern Tim...
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Chaplin Today: The Great Dictator
A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."...
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Chaplin Today: A King in New York
An examination of Charles Chaplin's final starring film....
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Chaplin Carnival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: Behind the Screen, The Count, The Fireman, and The Vagabond, presente...
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Mary Pickford a Blessing and a Curse
Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star s...
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Smile!
A docudrama presenting the events which explain how and why Charles Spencer Chaplin made alterations...
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The Eternal Jew
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...
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Chaplin Today: City Lights
In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...
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Charlie Butts In
A tramp heads home drunk on a Saturday night, finding it hard to make it to his room. When he finall...
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Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, sil...
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Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
A documentary which explores the lives and tragic deaths of Marceline Orbes and Francis "Slivers" Oa...
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Charlie Chaplin: The Little Tramp
Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his ...
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Lifetime of Comedy
Compilation of comedy sketches from the comedy kings Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Danny Kaye & Bi...
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Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
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Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...
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Chaplin in Bali
In 1932, Chaplin, in full midlife crisis, escapes to Bali in search of himself to find the artistic ...
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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The Tramp and the Dictator
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creat...
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insig...
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Dancing Chaplin
The celebrated French choreographer Roland Petit had always had his eye on a film presentation of hi...
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The Film Parade
Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the mo...
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Warner at War
Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during W...
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The Chaplin Revue
Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together...
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Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled c...
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Looking for Mabel Normand
A documentary on the life and career of silent film star Mabel Normand....
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Sigrid Holmquist
The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent fi...
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The Charlie Chaplin Festival
Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, and Easy Street, presented w...
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well...
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The Big Parade of Comedy
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history....
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
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The Chaplin Cavalcade
Four Chaplin shorts from 1916: One A.M., The Rink, The Pawnshop, and The Floorwalker, presented with...
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Max Linder Visits Charlie Chaplin
Renowned French comedian and filmmaker Max Linder visits Charlie Chaplin in 1917....
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Chaplin Today: The Kid
This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released i...
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Chaplin vs the FBI
How FBI followed Charles Chaplin for 50 years. Hoover was convinced that Chaplin is a communist or c...
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
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Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were two incredibly talented artists who enjoyed enormous worldwid...
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Charlie Chaplin at Mutual Studios I
Includes: "The Count" (1916), "The Vagabond" (1916), The Fireman" (1916), "Behind the Screen" (1916)...
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Hollywood’s Children
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell...
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30 Years of Fun
Three decades of fun packed into one convenient package with this compilation of classic black-and-w...
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Chase Me Charlie
Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made ...
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Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, compo...
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Charlie Chaplin Meets Harry Lauder
Filmed at the Chaplin Studios, Los Angeles on January 22, 1917 -- this footage was intended as a pro...
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Zepped
Zepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the Fi...
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Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and bio...
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The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Ci...
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Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star....
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Charlie Chaplin: His Life & Work
Charlie Chaplin's rise to fame in the pioneering days of the film industry is one of the most dramat...
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ViennaFilm 1896-1976
This film is a kind of anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The ai...
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Charlie's Triple Trouble
British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple ...
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A Burlesque on the Opera "Carmen"
Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)....
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Charlie Chaplin: The Long Year at Essanay
Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essa...
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Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler
Douglas Fairbanks, the screen's great swashbuckler, charmed millions with his energetic athleticism,...
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Chaplin Today: The Circus
This documentary is featured on the Warner Bros. Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Circus," released i...
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Buñuel in Hollywood
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program ...
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Gene Kelly - An American in Hollywood
Gene Kelly is a legend of the heyday of the Hollywood musical. His name stands for masterpieces such...
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The Chaplin Mutuals, Vol. 2
Features four films made for the Mutual Film Company: The Count, The Vagabond, The Fireman, and Behi...
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One to One: John & Yoko
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —...
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Chaplin et "Les temps modernes", La voie du silence
In 1936, the sound film had already been around for a decade. Nevertheless, Charlie Chaplin (1889-19...
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Murders of Hollywood
Sensational and shocking stories from Hollywood are not always fiction. Beyond anything a screenwrit...
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Modern Times: A Closer Look
In this 2010 visual essay, Chaplin historian Jeffrey Vance, author of “Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema...
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The Way of the World
A long-retired director of early silent films recalls his exciting career as a filmmaker....
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High & Low – John Galliano
Fashion designer John Galliano was widely recognized as one of the most successful names in 1990s an...
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John Candy: I Like Me
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-be...
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