The Tramp and the Dictator

A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.

Documentary TV Movie

Kenneth Branagh

(Narrator (voice))

Walter Bernstein

(Self (uncredited))

Ray Bradbury

(Self (uncredited))

Sydney Chaplin

Brigitte Hamann

(Self (uncredited))

Al Hirschfeld

(Self (uncredited))

Stanley Kauffmann

(Self (uncredited))

Sidney Lumet

(Self (uncredited))

Nikola Radosevic

(Self (uncredited))

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

(Self (uncredited))

Budd Schulberg

(Self (uncredited))

Gitta Sereny

(Self (uncredited))

Charlie Chaplin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Oona O'Neill Chaplin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Syd Chaplin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Martin Dies

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Douglas Fairbanks

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Joseph Goebbels

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

D.W. Griffith

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Henry Ford

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Adolf Hitler

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Ivor Montagu

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Benito Mussolini

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Mary Pickford

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Reinhard Spitzy

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Bernard Vorhaus

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))