Movies: Charlie Chaplin

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures....

Mr. Snookie steals an umbrella and then, while trying to help a woman to cross a puddle, the Tramp appears and intervenes....

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

A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy....

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953....

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....

Mary Pickford's name remains inseparable from the legend of American cinema. She invented the star system at the beginning of the 20th century, and was the biggest star ever known, not just in Hollywood, but worldwide, at a time when actors didn't ev...

A home movie version of the Dumas play. A young woman becomes a courtesan and tragedy befalls her. Appearances are made by many socialites of 1920s Paris and New York....

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters....

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

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

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe....

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A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself....

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel ...

An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos....

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

Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'....

Charlie and his partner are to deliver a piano to 666 Prospect St. and repossess one from 999 Prospect St....

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest...