If you’re looking for something to watch this Labor Day that’s actually about labor, you can’t do much better than Charlie Chaplin‘s Modern Times.
Released in 1936, the film follows Chaplin’s beloved Little Tramp character as a factory worker pushed to a breakdown by the relentless demands of assembly-line work, before he’s mistaken for a communist agitator, jailed, released, and sent bouncing through a series of odd jobs alongside a young orphan played by Paulette Goddard. It was Chaplin’s swipe at industrialized America during the Great Depression, using slapstick to soften a genuinely pointed critique of how machines and management were reshaping the American worker’s life.
It also marked a turning point for Chaplin personally. Though made nearly a decade into the sound era, Chaplin refused to give the Tramp a full voice, holding out until the film’s final scene, when the character sings a nonsense song, the only time audiences ever heard him speak in-character at all.
Nearly 90 years later, the film’s craftsmanship still holds up. It currently sits at a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes and has been named to the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films. Robert Downey Jr. even earned an Academy Award nomination for playing Chaplin in a 1992 biopic centered partly on the making of this film.
The Labor Day connection isn’t a stretch, either. Entertainment outlets have repeatedly pointed to Modern Times as one of the defining big-screen portraits of the American worker, right alongside titles like The Grapes of Wrath and Norma Rae, thanks to its unflinching look at what industrialization actually cost the people caught up in it.
Nearly a century after its release, Modern Times is still one of the sharpest, funniest examinations of work itself that Hollywood has ever put to film, which makes it a fitting watch for a holiday built around honoring the people who do it.
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