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Director: Charlie Chaplin

Behind the Screen

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

On a Hollywood movie set a lowly stagehand does all the heavy lifting while his boss hogs the credit. The …

City Lights

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin, neverendingly empathetic to his characters—and thus to their real-world counterparts, usually the poor and downtrodden of American society—crafted perhaps …

Easy Street

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp goes straight after falling for beautiful social worker and becomes a police officer. But his challenging first assignment …

Modern Times

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Perhaps Chaplin’s foremost contribution to the preeminent art form of the 20th century and routinely voted amongst the greatest films …

Shorts 8: Chaplin Classics

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin’s singular blend of slapstick, pathos, and social satire made him one of the cinema’s great artists and his …

The Gold Rush

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

In search of gold in turn-of-the-century Alaska, Charlie takes refuge with a fellow prospector in an isolated, comically imbalanced cabin …

The Rink

Directed by Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin skates circles around his antagonists, figuratively, waiting tables in a swanky restaurant, and literally, at the rink next door.

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