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- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- 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.
- The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
- 100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
- This film is based on the book about Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev (1887 - 1919) who was in real life the Commander of the 25th Division of the Red Army. Chapaev is an uneducated peasant and a decorated hero in the World War I and later in the Russian Civil War, that followed the Russian revolution. This man of action is fighting on the side of the poor people. His troops consist of peasants, just like him. Unable to write, he can brilliantly demonstrate various battle tactics by moving potatoes on the table. He is street smart. He never lost a battle against the experienced Generals of the Tzar's Army.
- Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
- A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
- After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
- In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
- A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.
- About an unsuccessful revolt against a sadistic warden in a Siberian prison camp.
- A Russian outpost in Eastern Siberia comes under threat of attack by the Japanese. Aerograd is a new town with a strategically located airfield of vital interest to the government.
- Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
- A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
- In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary forces. Director Yefim Dzigan had himself fought for the Bolsheviks in the fleet, so the Red sailors are the heroes of the film. The young Soviet State was besieged by enemies on all sides, and the Revolution was fighting for its life. While clearly propagandistic, the film is often quite poetic visually, not naturalistic as was prescribed by authorities at the time. The film was honored at the 1937 Paris World's Fair. The video version is in Russian with English subtitles.
- A band of soldiers, escorting some civilians across an Asian wasteland, are set upon and surrounded at a waterhole by a notorious horde of bandits . The soldiers determine to hold off the bandits until hoped-for reinforcements arrive.
- 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.
- In 1932, thousands of Komsomol members went to the Far East to build the "city of youth" - Komsomolsk-on-Amur. There is a saboteur among the builders. Soon, fuel depots explode at the new factories of Komsomolsk.
- A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
- A historical film about the life and state activities of Tsar Peter I, the reformer of Russia of the XVIII century, starting from the Battle of Narva in 1700 and ending with the adoption of the title of emperor by Peter the Great in 1721.
- Young hobos are brought to a new camp to become good Soviet citizens. This camp works without any guards. But crooks kill one of the young people when they try to damage the newly build railroad to that camp.
- A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
- The adventures of a wooden boy.
- Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
- The unhappy fate of a serf who devises a flying apparatus, against the background of Czar Ivan IV in Russia's 16th century.
- The movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.
- The tractor driver Pavlo and the collective farmer Marinka love each other. But accountant Kovinko also likes Marinka. The accountant wants to separate the lovers and builds various intrigues for them.
- The Soviet Army, taken by surprise in this imaginary scenario by an attack, immediately routs the invaders and then crosses the border into the enemy territory in hot pursuit, culminating in a military apotheosis.
- In 19th century, the Russian government tries to resettle a Chechen village to Turkey, but the villagers are not keen on being evicted from their homeland.
- As the Japanese settled in Manchuria, the USSR made this patriotic adventure film using actors from the Ulan Bator state theater.A bumpkin sheperd wins the hand of the girl by heroically foiling a plot by the enemy to invade Mongolia.
- The story of a newly graduated Leningrad teacher, Yelena Kuzmina. She goes furniture shopping with her fiance, Petya, and in a fantasy sequence she imagines teaching a class of neat, obedient city schoolchildren. Instead, she is assigned to work in the Altai mountains of Siberia.
- Japanese forces land in the port of Vladivostok during Russian civil war, supporting anti-communist forces, while local population joins Far Eastern Republic and partisans in the struggle against the intervention and White army.
- 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 has particular merits in realistic performance, photography and movement, plus some musical touches in way of folk songs."
- A Jewish surgeon - a war veteran, brilliant scientist and respected citizen - becomes a victim of the mad anti-Semitic purge and stripped of all his possessions and discarded by the hospital. He is pressed back into service to perform an operation on a Nazi leader, and then machine-gunned as a reward.
- A sarcastic comedy about the Imperial Russian bureaucracy, based on the eponymous novella by Yuri Tynyanov. Set in the reign of Emperor Paul I. A copying error by a military scribe turns the Russian words for "the lieutenants, however" into what looks like "lieutenant Kizhe". The Tsar reads the error, and wants to meet this (non-existent) Lieutenant Kizhe. His courtiers are at first too frightened to contradict the Tsar, but then the fiction turns out to be all too convenient for them. So Lieutenant Kizhe gets himself exiled to Siberia, recalled from exile, promoted, and married. He dies and receives a state funeral. In many ways, he is the most charming and lovable character in the film, even though he remains throughout the film a "confidential person, without a shape".
- Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an orthodox pro-Communist viewpoint.
- Yegor Efimov, a talented violinist, wants to get to St. Petersburg. Released by the landowner Valemirov, he goes to the capital, but gets stuck in a county town on the way.
- In a train where social classes are strictly separated (wealthy in the front, poor in the back), a revolt erupts.
- Lithuania, first half of the 19th century. While hunting on the outskirts of the ancient castle of Count Mikhail Shemet, a bear attacks the Countess. She loses her mind, and her son Casimir, born to her, acquires a pathology.
- "Not to spare bullets!" was the highest command to a governor in case of a workers' revolt. Desperate time - desperate measures. No participant can find rest after the event.
- Biography of Ukrainian revolutionary Nikolai Alexandrovitch Shchors. Shchors leads the peasants and workers to advance on Kyiv.
- In 1916, a new Russian governor arrives in the Kazakhstan steppes. A Kazakh kero, Amangeldi Imanov, leads the people to revolt against the invader, and allies with the Bolsheviks against some kazakh clans subdued to the tsar.
- Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.
- The son and daughter of a lost-at-sea captain recruit help to find him on the basis of an incomplete note found in a bottle, and encounter adventures in Patagonia, Australia, and New Zealand...