Sergei Eisenstein • USSR • 1925

Odessa, 1905. Enraged with the deplorable conditions onboard, the crew of Potemkin considers the unthinkable: mutiny. Seizing control of the ship and raising the red flag of revolution, the sailors' revolt reaches further, rallying a disenchanted Russian populace....

Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman • USA • 1926

Rejected by the Confederate army and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee, young Johnny Gray is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon...

Fritz Lang • Germany • 1927

Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of Metropolis is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. Backed by a new recording of Gottfried Huppertz’s 1927 score, the film’s dazzling visual design a...

One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera is a work of amazing modernity and power. This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive.

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Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid • USA • 1943

A flower on a sunny sidewalk. A woman in black enters an empty house, the record-player spinning, the telephone off the hook. Out the window, a shrouded figure strides out of view as the woman chases after her. Witness to herself, the woman embarks on a...