The Great Dictator (1940)





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


Film programs

Illustrierte Film Bühne nr. 4396

Books on The Great Dictator

Frank Schnelle
Charles Chaplin's Der grosse Diktator
Stuttgart, 1994

Books with substantial mentioning of The Great Dictator

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Charles P. Mitchell
The Hitler Filmography, Worldwide Feature Film and Television Miniseries Portrayals, 1940 Through 2000
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2002

Dawn B. Sova
Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures
New York NY, 2001

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Stanley Hochman (editor)
From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940
New York, 1982

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and John Griggs
The Films of World War II
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973

Gerald D. McDonald, Michael Conway and Mark Ricci (editors)
The Films of Charlie Chaplin
New York, 1965