Netflix delivered this Oscar-nominated film.

Charlie Chaplin plays both a Jewish barber and the dictator of the fictional country, Tomania. This slight political satire points out much of the wrong doings in the late 1930s Germany, and its Chancellor Adolph Hitler.

As the barber, Chaplin first sees action in the Great War, becoming injured as he helps rescue an exhausted pilot, and they crash with the barber ending up in a military hospital. He is released, but his amnesia has allowed him to forget everything right up to his accident, and he knows nothing of the decline of his country and the persecution of the Jews. He returns to his barbershop and finds himself in trouble as he begins to clean up to open for business. Suddenly he is thrust into hiding as he and his pilot friend are sought by the law.

As the dictator, Chaplin depicts a paranoid power-hungry leader who is agitated into using the Jews to unite the people. The dictator runs into trouble as he seeks to invade neighboring Osterlich. His main obstacle is another dictator who has also has troops waiting to invade Osterlich.

In a twist of mistaken identity, the dictator is taken prisoner as stormtroopers believe he is the barber, dressed out of uniform while on a relaxing fishing trip before the invasion begins. Meanwhile the barber, accompanied by the pilot, has been mistaken for the dictator.

Chaplin takes this opportunity to give a pre-WWII "can't we all just get along" speech, pointing out the idiocies of contemporary German politics.