
In 1919, Chaplin co-founded the distribution company United Artists which gave him complete control over his films. His first feature-length film was
The Kid (1921), followed by
A Woman of Paris (1923),
The Gold Rush (1925), and
The Circus (1928). He refused to move to sound films in the 1930s, instead producing
City Lights (1931) and
Modern Times (1936) without dialogue. He became increasingly political, and his next film
The Great Dictator (1940) satirized Adolf Hitler