Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein
and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a
dramatized version of the mutiny that
occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin
rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.
Battleship Potemkin has been called one of the most influential propaganda films of all
time, and was
named the greatest film of all time at
the Brussels World's Fair in 1958
The most celebrated scene in the film is the massacre of civilians on the Odessa Steps (also known as the Primorsky
or Potemkin Stairs).
In this scene, the Tsar's soldiers in their
white summer tunics march down a seemingly endless flight of steps in a
rhythmic, machine-like fashion, firing volleys into a crowd. A separate
detachment of mounted Cossacks charges the crowd at the bottom of the stairs.
The victims include an older woman wearing Pince-nez, a young boy with his mother, a student in
uniform and a teenage schoolgirl. A mother pushing an infant in a baby carriage
falls to the ground dying and the carriage rolls down the steps amidst the
fleeing crowd.
The Kid is a 1921 American silent dramedy film written by, produced by, directed by and
starring Charlie
Chaplin, and features Jackie Coogan as his adopted son and sidekick.
This was Chaplin's first full-length movie. It was a huge success, and was the
second-highest grossing film in 1921, behind The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse. In 2011, The Kid was selected for preservation in the
United States National Film Registry by the Library of
Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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