Charlie Chaplin hone his craft as he moved to the Essanay, Mutual, and First National corporations. By 1918, he was one of the best-known figures in the world. 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
Feature film films, or to run them all together as a short film series. The American company S. Lubin released a Passion Play titled Lubin's Passion Play in January 1903 in 31 parts, totaling about 60 minutes. The French company Pathé Frères released a different Passion Play, "The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ", in May 1903 in 32 parts running about 44 minutes. There were also full-length records of boxing matches, such as "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" (1897), "Reproduction Of The Corbett-Jeffries Fight" (1899), and "The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight" (1899). Some consider the 100-minute "The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight" to be the first documentary feature