This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It concludes with a director's cut of the film Police (1916). The series is narrated by none other than Burgess Meredith.

Burgess Meredith
Narrator (voice)

Charlie Chaplin
Self / The Tramp (archive footage)

Mabel Normand
(archive footage)

Roscoe Arbuckle
(archive footage)
A Plastic Ocean75%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
Sidney70%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Above Majestic73%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Maternal Instinct72%
Voyeur59%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me84%
Love, Antosha74%
Casting By68%
Night Will Fall76%
180° South72%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me60%
Nail Bomber: Manhunt65%