Charlie Chaplin Returns to America from Exile
Charlie Chaplin's rocky relationship with the US; the Hubble telescope captures the furthest galaxies and shaking off colonialism at the world's first festival for black artists.
Charlie Chaplin's son on his father's political views and his rocky relationship with his one-time adopted home, America. Plus the Hubble telescope produces the first clear pictures of the furthest galaxies; shaking off colonialism with the world's first festival for black artists; Japan launches a new way of learning the violin and tragedy in Latin America when American missionaries flying over Peru were mistaken for drug-runners.
(Photo: Charlie Chaplin as the Tramp in the 1925 film, The Gold Rush. Credit: Getty Images)
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