The Great Dictator

Name: The Great Dictator
Genre: Comedy, War
Released: 1940-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8.3

About The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator is a 1940 comedy war film. At 125 minutes long, it arrived in October 1940.

The film is filed under amnesia, world war i, fascism, and propaganda.

Charlie Chaplin appears as Adenoid Hynkel, Dictator of Tomania, Paulette Goddard as Hannah, Jack Oakie as Benzino Napaloni, Dictator of Bacteria, and Reginald Gardiner as Commander Schultz. The screenplay is by Charlie Chaplin. Produced by Charles Chaplin Productions. It streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Criterion Channel in the United States.

Downfall, Judgment at Nuremberg, and To Be or Not to Be make useful companions to The Great Dictator, all filed under dictator, national socialism, and national socialist party. TMDB voters put it at 8.3 out of 10 across 3,858 votes and it carries a NR rating.