A founding masterpiece of silent cinema, studied the world over for its radical montage techniques and still shocking today, Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin was originally conceived as part of a cycle of films commemorating the revolutionary events of 1905. Recreating a sailor’s rebellion in the Black Sea fleet and the subsequent massacre of civilians of Odessa, the film was banned outright in many countries outside Soviet Russia. A true monument of the Soviet avant-garde.