Charlie Chaplin: The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator, Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany and his first "talkie", sees Chaplin play double roles as dictator Adenoid Hynkel and a poor Jewish barber. Twenty years after being injured in war, the barber recovers from amnesia to discover that Hynkel is persecuting the Jews. After returning to his former barber shop and falling in love with the beautiful Hannah, he is one day mistaken for the great dictator. Chaplin's most commercially successful picture, The Great Dictator was nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture. In 1997 it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".