Movies

As Colonel Nutt is experimenting with explosives, a new janitor is joining his household. The inept janitor proceeds to make life difficult for the...

Comedian Lloyd Hamilton escorts a group of beauty contest winners to various Hollywood night spots.

Warner Bros. uses the movies to prepare the US for war and keep up morale on the home front during World War II.

Slapstick experts host this look at the life and films of Charley Chase with rare film clips and photos.

The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)...

Long before FW Murnau's head went for a little walk without his body, the most celebrated cinematic corpse-napping was the theft of Charlie Chaplin's...

For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...

Two disruptive theater patrons, the wealthy drunk Mr. Pest (played by Charlie Chaplin) and the rowdy working-class Mr. Rowdy (also played by...

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

This short features clips from silent films (mostly unidentified) of the 1910's, accompanied by humorous commentary. Highlighted are early...

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with...

This loving tribute to Gene Wilder celebrates his life and legacy as the comic genius behind an extraordinary string of film roles, from his first...

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

A bricklayer and his wife clash over his end-of-the-week partying.

The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914),...

The story is set between the two world wars, in an era when poverty and madness were rampant. Humanity and faith in freedom have failed.

How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public...