Battleship Potemkin - Re-creates the 1905 mutiny on the battleship "Potemkin." It focuses a mutiny by the battleship’s crew and the subsequent massacre of civilians, reflecting the spirit of the times. Often considered one of the best films of all time. (DVD 460)

Mad Love - Evgeni Bauer created macabre masterpieces, dramas darkly obsessed with doomed love and death, astonishing for graceful camera movements, risque themes and opulent sets. The films were buried in Soviet archives for decades until the fall of the Iron Curtain. (DVD 2936)

The End of St. Petersburg - Shows changing conditions in Russia as seen by a young peasant who lived through the upheaval in St. Petersburg that culminated in the revolution of 1917. Made for the 10th anniversary of the Russian revolution. Directed by Pudovkin. (DVD 2015)

Outskirts / The Girl With the Hat Box - "Outskirts" is set in a Russian provincial village during World War I where a German prisoner of war, put to work in the village's cobbler shop.  In "The Girl With the Hat Box", an underhanded boss pays an impoverished employee with a lottery ticket instead of the money she earned. (DVD 4628)

Arsenal - Based on an actual incident, this is a dramatic account of the Ukraine from the First World War through the February and October Revolutions, to the suppression of a workers’ revolt in 1918. Dovzhenko presents harsh, realistic scenes of Czarist brutality and war’s destruction, but his juxtapositions of the Russian workers and peasants are both impressionistic and symbolic. (DVD 1980)

Man With a Movie Camera - An experimental film which uses numerous cinematic techniques (split screens, multiple superimpositions, variable speeds, et cetera) to present a dawn to dusk view of the Soviet Union to study the relation between cinema and reality. Directed by Dziga Vertov. (DVD 5097)

Ivan the Terrible - Covers the reign of Ivan the Terrible from his coronation through his return to power after the death of his wife to the attempt to assassinate him in 1564. (DVD 262)

Bed and Sofa - Abram Room's  story of a love triangle between a woman and two men living together in a one-room basement apartment in 1927 Moscow.  Also included is Pudovkin's famous short Chess Fever. (DVD 3300)

Storm Over Asia - Revolutionary drama centered on a young Mongol thought to be descended from Genghis Khan whom imperialists seek to use to further their expansionist interests. After a series of misadventures the young man rebels and leads his people against their oppressors. (DVD 2013)

Aelita: Queen of Mars - Los, an engineer living in Moscow, dreams of Aelita, the Queen of Mars, and builds a spaceship to take him to her. They fall in love, but Los soon finds himself embroiled in the planet’s proletarian uprising. (DVD 3301)

Mother - A young revolutionary dies fighting against the misery and poverty of Tsarist Russia in the pre-war revolution of 1905, and, in doing so, brings about the political awareness of his mother. (DVD 2038)

Alexander Nevsky - Biographical story of Prince Alexander Nevsky and his successful resistance against an attempt by the Teutonic Knights to invade Russia in 1242. Directed by Eisenstein with a score by Prokofiev. (DVD 2735)

Battleship Potemkin

The Girl with the Hat Box

Arsenal

Bed and Sofa

Aelita, the Queen of Mars