The best Syd Chaplin’s documentary movies

Syd Chaplin

Syd Chaplin

16/03/1885- 15/04/1965
Today we present the best Syd Chaplin’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Syd Chaplin’s movies.

Birth of the Tramp

Birth of the Tramp
7/10
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 the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.

The Tramp and the Dictator

The Tramp and the Dictator
7.8/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryTV Movie
  • Release: 14/02/2002
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.

Chaplin's Goliath

Chaplin's Goliath
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1996
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life

Charlie Chaplin: A Tramp's Life
7.7/10
A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), from rags to riches, from the slums of London to glory.

Hollywood My Home Town

Hollywood My Home Town
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 31/12/1965
  • Character: Himself
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.

Sydney, the Other Chaplin

Sydney, the Other Chaplin
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/2017
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Since his debut in 1914, Charles Chaplin has never ceased to amaze. But surely, Charles would have never reached such heights if it weren't for his big brother Sydney, an improbable character of the shadows with a fiction-like destiny.

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