In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, ...

Hollywood studios did not want Charlie Chaplin to make The Great Dictator. When he first started writing the script in 1938, the U.S. had not yet entered World War II. In fact, it still enjoyed ...

The main pretext for this German TV documentary (2002, 55 min.) was the recent discovery of color home movies shot during the production of Charlie Chaplin’s black-and-white feature The Great Dictator ...

Read up on the latest The Great Dictator film News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Timeless, indeed. The reason he survived is even more surprising. "Liberty's too precious a thing to ...

In hard times, we need to have the courage to say: two and two equals four.” So insists Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated ...

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to... How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to ...