Peggy Noonan has been a right-leaning columnist for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as ...

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's 1923 film A Woman of Paris, starring Edna Purviance, now available on Blu-Ray from The Criterion Collection.

Almost 100 years ago, Charlie Chaplin released one of his most iconic works, The Gold Rush. But unless you saw the movie ...

Mom Mariam (Nimra Bucha) is an imperious wellspring of disapproval towards her only daughter, who refuses to meet potential husbands or otherwise behave like a proper young Muslim lady. (Little does ...

When Charlie Chaplin, who had angered US isolationists by mocking Hitler and making the case for war against the Nazis years ...

The 1940s film scene was not kind to Charlie Chaplin. His film The Great Dictator was not well received in part because of Chaplin's insistence that Hilter should be laughed at. Critics also ...

Chaplin-like, he finds success as an actor-director, until his lampoon of a dictator offends political sensibilities — a twist that nods to Chaplin’s 1940 satire of Nazism, “The Great ...

Chaplin makes no bones about his utter contempt for dictators like Hitler and Mussolini in his production of The Great Dictator. He takes time out to make fun about it, but the preachment is ...

Luckily a roof beam saved the 150 people inside who were ironically watching Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. The cinema is one of Britain's last surviving civilian bomb-damaged buildings.

Borrowing from “The Great Dictator” (there’s even a globe-tossing scene), the migrant actors play Chaplin’s Hitler look-alike and his henchmen, scheming to trample the “rats” who they ...