Movies: Charlie Chaplin

A good man trys to help a blind girl to see again but he doesn't have enough money for the operation....

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of hi...

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919....

Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of m...

Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film....

British comedian Tommy Handley makes funny commentary on speeded up and shortened version of Triple trouble (1918)...

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory....

A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell)....

Zepped is a 1916 propaganda comedy short film about a German Zeppelin attack on London during the First World War. Charlie Chaplin appears in the film, although it is unlikely he himself was involved in the production. Making use of stop-motion anima...

African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars....

Joel Grey dresses up as Charlie Chaplin to tell the story of his movie career, and show many of his clips....

Peter Sellers makes funny voice narration over the Chaplin film A Burlesque on Carmen (1915)....

Glenn Ford narrates this hilarious look back at the greatest comedians in movie history....

In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst pandemic in history: the Spanish flu....

A short documentary in the Chaplin Today series about Chaplin's "Monsieur Verdoux." Includes an interview with Claude Chabrol, whose 1963 film "Landru" concerns the same serial killer that inspired Chaplin's film....

Two criminals chase a plainclothes policeman who, while taking out his dog, witnesses their crime....

Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II....

An examination of Charles Chaplin's final starring film....

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the produ...

This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004....