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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.
- 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.
- 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 hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- The drunken denizens of a Russian village dislike a Jewish shoemaker, who bonds for protection with a burly boatman.
- After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War.
- 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.
- 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.
- Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.
- Two young boys strive to save the life of an officer trapped by the White Russians. Their efforts are both comic and dramatic.
- A musically talented shepherd gets his big chance when he is mistaken for a famous conductor.
- 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.
- The movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who is a thief - a street pickpocket, a social lion or a banker? The thief is the one who takes it small, the man with prospects is called a winner.
- 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.
- A drama reveals the great writer's inauspicious early years as an orphan raised by conniving relatives.
- 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.