Movies: Charlie Chaplin

A comedy made by Keystone Studios starring Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, both of whom co-directed the movie. This is Chaplin's only lost film as no copy is known to exist....

A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character....

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan....

Documentary about the early career of Charlie Chaplin....

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star....

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

A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966....

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin....

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

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé....

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself....

In 1932, Chaplin, in full midlife crisis, escapes to Bali in search of himself to find the artistic rejuvenation and inspiration to do his difficult transition to sound film....

A video essay on Charlie Chaplin's film "Limelight" (1952)....

A rough criminal gets a second chance at life thanks to a kindly (and wealthy) lady saloon patron. But he hasn't gone straight yet, as he and a partner attempt to rob the home of a rich homeowner-- whose wife is asleep in the next room....

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death....

Short documentary about Chaplin's year at Essanay. Clips from Chaplin films but also from other Essanay films....

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

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage....

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...

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty....