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Alan Cumming on THE GREAT DICTATOR OTTID:551151
The Great Dictator
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THE GREAT DICTATOR Commentary OTTID:6...
The following audio commentary, recorded in 2011, features performer and author Dan Kamin and silent-film historian Hooman Mehran.
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The Tramp and the Dictator OTTID:458416
This 2001 documentary by Kevin Brownlow and Michael Kloft parallels the lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler, from their births the same week to the start of production on THE GREAT DICTATOR a week after Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It includes interviews with author Ray Bradbury, artist Al ...
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Chaplin’s Napoleon OTTID:458417
Charlie Chaplin long wanted to make a film about Napoleon Bonaparte, working and reworking his concept over a number of years—until ultimately it morphed into THE GREAT DICTATOR. The following visual essay by Cecilia Cenciarelli, archivist and head of the Cineteca di Bologna’s Progetto Chaplin, t...