Battleship Potemkin

Sergei Eisenstein · 1925 CE · Film · Russian · Modernist

Sailors on a Black Sea battleship in 1905 refuse the maggoty meat they are served, and the officers' answer turns the ship over to its crew. Odessa comes down to the harbor with food and support, and the Tsar's soldiers come down the steps. Revolution edited into a weapon.

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• ↓ U.S.A. Trilogy
  John Dos Passos · 1936 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock · 1960 CE · Film — influenced by this
• ↓ The Battle of Algiers
  Gillo Pontecorvo · 1966 CE · Film — influenced by this
• ↓ Man with a Movie Camera
  Dziga Vertov · 1929 CE · Film — responds to this
• ↓ The Untouchables
  Brian De Palma · 1987 CE · Film — alludes to this

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