10 Best Final Speeches In Movie History

The last entry in this list comes by way of 1940 satire The Great Dictator, a movie that dared to poke fun at Hitler's fascist regime in Nazi Germany.

It should never go unsaid that the movie was made at the height of Hitler's power, as he attempted to crush the known world under his oppressive and hateful thumb.

Chaplin, who bears a passing resemblance to Hitler owing to his facial hair, portrayed a character that was indistinguishable from dictator Adenoid Hynkle. His character, a Jewish barber with memory loss, was able to use his resemblance to the dictator to promote a message of freedom of speech and democracy, as well as to appeal to soldiers not to give their lives to the regimes that nothing more than to take their freedoms and those of the innocent.

On its own merit, it's incredibly powerful, but when you consider exactly what was occurring in the world at the time of the movie's release, it becomes something bigger than a simple speech in a movie.

The Great Dictator dared men to be better, and it did it gloriously through the media of film.