24 Sep 2017
A Night at the Garden
Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in 1939, shortly before the beginning of World War II.
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.
Top Billed Cast
Kenneth Branagh Narrator (voice)
Sydney Chaplin Self
Brigitte Hamann Self (uncredited)
Al Hirschfeld Self (uncredited)
Stanley Kauffmann Self (uncredited)
Nikola Radosevic 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)
Henry Ford Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mary Pickford Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Reinhard Spitzy Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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