Charlie Chaplin was the most famous person on earth — then America turned on him. His relationships with young women, his leftist politics, and his refusal to become a U.S. citizen made him a target of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. In 1952, while sailing to London for a film premiere, the government revoked his re-entry permit. He did not return for twenty years. And after his death, someone stole his body from the grave.

This episode traces Chaplin from his Dickensian London childhood through the creation of the Tramp, the films that made him the first global celebrity, his exile from America, and the bizarre postmortem theft of his coffin.

• Chaplin's impoverished childhood in Victorian London workhouses and music halls
• The creation of the Tramp and the films that made Chaplin the most recognized person alive
• The FBI sur ...