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Charlie Chaplin
The Forgotten Years
(2003)

This documentary focuses on Charles Chaplin’s latter years, and features several family interviews.

2005 Hart Sharp Video edition

Charlie Chaplin: The Forgotten Years (2003), black & white, 55 minutes total, not rated.

Hart Sharp Video, unknown catalog number, unknown UPC number.
Full-frame 4:3 NTSC, one single-sided, single-layered DVD disc, Region 1, ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops, keep case, $24.99 (reduced to $9.98).
DVD release date: 18 October 2005.
Country of origin: USA

This documentary has been mastered from 35mm materials. The supplementary materials include an additional 22 minutes of interviews with Geraldine Chaplin, Michael Chaplin, Eugene Chaplin, Peter Ustinov and Petula Clark.

 
USA: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.com.
 
Canada: Click the logomark at right to purchase
a Region 1 NTSC DVD of this edition from Amazon.ca.

Other silent era CHARLES CHAPLIN films available on home video.

Other silent era-related documentaries available on home video:
American Experience: Mary Pickford (2005)
Before Hollywood, There Was Fort Lee, N.J. (1964)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
Birth of a Legend (1966)
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Chaplin’s Art of Comedy (1966)
Chaplin’s Goliath (1996)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995)
Clara Bow: Discovering the ‘It’ Girl (1999)
Discovering Cinema (1908-2004)
Douglas Fairbanks: The Great Swashbuckler (1976)
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin (2006)
The Film Parade: A History of Early Cinema (1933-1947)
Forgotten Silver (1997)
Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (1998)
The Gentleman Tramp (1975)
The Great Chase (1963)
Harold Lloyd’s World of Comedy (1962)
Kingdom of Shadows (1998)
The Last Diva: Francesca Bertini (1982)
Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s (1965)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino (1982)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon (2004)
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998)
The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
Mary Pickford: A Life on Film (1997)
Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde (1997)
Memories of the Silent Stars
Olive Thomas: Everybody’s Sweetheart (2004)
Otto Messmer and Felix the Cat (1977)
The Railrodder (1965)
Rudolph Valentino: The Great Lover (2006)
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996)
Silent Britain (2006)
Slaphappy: The Movie (2004)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton at MGM (2004)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Unknown Chaplin (1983)
Victor Sjöström (1981)
The Way to Murnau (2003)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Without Lying Down (2000)

Charles Chaplin filmography in The Progressive Silent Film List

 
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