Twelve years after the first "talkies" came out, silent film star Charlie Chaplin finally made his first speaking picture. Probably Chaplin's most famous film, The Great Dictator gleefully ridicules Hitler and his regime.
Chaplin plays a humble Jewish barber who is mistaken for the ruling tyrant, Adenoid Hynkel. Released in 1940, it was initially controversial but soon became an extremely popular piece of anti-Hitler propaganda, and was rewarded by being nominated for several Oscars.
The Great Dictator is a Film programme that first aired in 1940 and has been classified a PG certificate.
