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Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Summary: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Release Date: December 24, 1925

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Nina Agadzhanova

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Runtime: 1 h 06 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Republic Pictures Home Video, Reel Media International, Kino International, Kino Video, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 51,198

International: $ 10,191

Strike (1925)

Summary: A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Genre: Drama

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Ilya Kravchunovsky

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Kinostudiya imeni M. Gorkogo, 1-ya Goskino Fabrika, Goskino

Distributor: Image Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Bismillah (1925)

Summary: Religiously themed early Soviet propaganda film in Azerbaijan against Islam. Unlike earlier propaganda films in the region, this was actually made by an (nearly) all Azeri cast and crew and directed by an Azeri filmmaker that woul...

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh

Writers: Pavel Blyakhin

, Igor Savchenko

, Arkadi Yalovoy

Runtime: 0 h 57 min

Production: Azdovlatkinosanaye, Azerbaijan Photo Film Management (AFKU), Azerbaijanfilm

Country: Soviet Union

Languages: None, Azerbaijani, Sign Languages

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)

Summary: A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

Release Date: September 24, 1928

Genres: Drama, History

Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Sergei Eisenstein

, Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, John Reed

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

Production: Sovkino

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Grapevine Video

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Two Days (1927)

Summary: During the 1917-1921 Civil War in Ukraine, a landlord and his family flee the Bolshevik troops, who are already on the outskirts of the city. The faithful doorman stays behind to guard the family's valuables, buried in the garden....

Genre: Drama

Director: Georgiy Stabovoy

Writer: Solomon Lazurin

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Odeska Kinofabryka, Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Amkino Corporation

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Ukrainian

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Summary: A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Release Date: May 12, 1929

Genres: Documentary, Music

Director: Dziga Vertov

Writer: Dziga Vertov

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Amkino Corporation, Kino Video, Flicker Alley

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Fragment of an Empire (1929)

Summary: A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.

Release Date: January 25, 1930

Genre: Drama

Director: Fridrikh Ermler

Writers: Fridrikh Ermler

, Ekaterina Vinogradskaya

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

Production: Sovkino

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Saba (1929)

Summary: A rework of Boris Sigal's play The Trial of Stepan Korolev. Set in Tbilisi rather than Leningrad is a morality tale about the hazards of alcohol consumption that is nonetheless not without humor.

Release Date: May 20, 1929

Genre: Drama

Director: Mikheil Chiaureli

Writers: S. Alkhazishvili

, Arsen Aravski

, Grigori Arustanov

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: Georgian-Film

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Georgian

Arsenal (1929)

Summary: A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Release Date: November 09, 1929

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Odeska Kinofabryka, Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Kino Video

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Earth (1930)

Summary: In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

Release Date: October 17, 1930

Genre: Drama

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Kyivska Kinofabryka, Vseukrainske Foto Kino Upravlinnia (VUFKU)

Distributor: Grapevine Video, Seagull Films

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Ukrainian

The New Gulliver (1935)

Summary: While hearing the story of "Gulliver's Travels", a young Russian boy dreams that he is the title character on the island of Lilliput.

Release Date: November 03, 1935

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Director: Aleksandr Ptushko

Writers: Samuel Bolotin

, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

, Aleksandr Ptushko

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Serlin-Burstyn

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Yunost Maksima (1935)

Summary: A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it... "an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism and revolutionary boiling in the days of 1907. Picture is one of the Soviet prize winners and ...

Release Date: April 19, 1935

Genres: Drama, History, War

Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev

, Leonid Trauberg

Writers: Leonid Trauberg

, Grigoriy Kozintsev

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Production: Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii i fotografii (GUKF)

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Bezhin lug (1937)

Summary: A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.

Genres: Short, Drama

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Isaak Babel

, Sergei Eisenstein

, Aleksandr Rzheshevsky

Runtime: 0 h 31 min

Production: Gosudarstvennoe Upravlenie Kinematografii (GUK)

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)

Summary: A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.

Release Date: September 27, 1938

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: Mark Donskoy

Writers: Mark Donskoy

, Maxim Gorky

, Ilya Gruzdev

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Soyuzdetfilm

Distributor: International Historic Films (IHF)

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Summary: The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.

Release Date: March 22, 1939

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama

Directors: Sergei Eisenstein

, Dmitriy Vasilev

Writers: Sergei Eisenstein

, Pyotr Pavlenko

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Artkino Pictures, Janus Films, Image Entertainment, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection, Rare Films and More, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Volga - Volga (1938)

Summary: Widely claimed to be Joseph Stalin's favorite movie, this classic musical comedy is a must-see. The action takes place on a steamboat on the iconic Volga River, as two groups of performers travel to Moscow to perform in the Moscow...

Release Date: May 16, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Musical

Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

Writers: Grigoriy Aleksandrov

, Nikolay Erdman

, Vladimir Nilsen

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm

Distributor: Artkino Pictures, Grading Dimension Pictures, Kinonation

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Tractor Drivers (1939)

Summary: An example of a popular genre in 1930s Soviet film, the musical comedy exalting the economic and social success of Communism, inspired by but in competition with the Hollywood musicals of the same era.

Release Date: July 03, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ivan Pyrev

Writer: Evgeniy Pomeshchikov

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

Production: Dovzhenko Film Studios

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

The New Teacher (1939)

Summary: A young teacher comes to work in his native village, plans to build a new school. The arrival of the teacher causes confusion in the soul of the young neighbor Agrafena Shumilina.

Release Date: April 06, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Sergey Gerasimov

Writer: Sergey Gerasimov

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

Production: Lenfilm Studio

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

Summary: During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.

Release Date: March 08, 1947

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writer: Sergei Eisenstein

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mosfilm, Tsentralnuyu Obedinyonnuyu Kinostudiyu (TsOKS)

Distributor: Artkino Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Kultur Video, Image Entertainment, Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), The Criterion Collection, Reel Media International, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Corinth Video, Grapevine Video, Tartan Video USA

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

Summary: Over 40 Army cameramen from 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts' contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.

Release Date: September 27, 1945

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Yuli Raizman

Writers: Yuli Raizman

, Nikolai Shpikovsky

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Tsentralnaya Studiya Dokumentalnikh Filmov (TsSDF)

Distributor: Artkino Pictures

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Strike (1925)

Bismillah (1925)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)

Two Days (1927)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Fragment of an Empire (1929)

Saba (1929)

Arsenal (1929)

Earth (1930)

The New Gulliver (1935)

Yunost Maksima (1935)

Bezhin lug (1937)

Gorky 1: The Childhood of Maxim Gorky (1938)

Alexander Nevsky (1938)

Volga - Volga (1938)

Tractor Drivers (1939)

The New Teacher (1939)

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

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