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- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn 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.(Battleship Potemkin) Russia soon after the beginning of revolution against Tsar's regime with battles begining in Odessa harbor on board of Potemkin battleship - by S.M. Eisenstein
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovMaksim ShtraukhMikhail GomorovA group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.(Strike) by Sergei Eisenstein
- DirectorGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsBoris LivanovNikolay PopovVasili NikandrovA large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.(October) Facts that led in the revolution of October 1917, in Russia by Grigoriy Aleksantrov
- DirectorMikhail RommDmitriy VasilevStarsBoris ShchukinNikolai OkhlopkovVasili VaninThe movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.(Lenin in October) by Mikhail Romm, Dimitriy Vasilev
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.(Alexander Nevsky) A prince is leading his ragtag army to victory against invading Celtic knights by Sergei M. Eisenstein
- DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsVyacheslav GostinskyLiliya GritsenkoNikolai GritsenkoAnna Bedford, a young and idealistic girl from Pennsylvania, accepts a State Department assignment to serve in the US Embassy in Moscow shortly after the allied victory over fascist Germany. Immediately upon her arrival at the new post, she discovers that virtually the entire staff at the embassy is engaged either in espionage or in slandering and vilifying the Soviet state. Her open-minded approach to Soviet reality quickly brings her into conflict with her superiors, who send her back to the States to attend her mother's funeral. While back in Pennsylvania, Anna discovers a changed America, plagued with massive unemployment and hatred fueled by anti-communist hysteria. Even death provides no escape from this national insanity: the cemetery where her mother is buried is plowed under in order to build a new military air base. The film was to end with Anna's return to Moscow, embraced by the masses of the Soviet people and marching with them across Red Square. Work on the film was terminated in April 1951 (under instructions from the Kremlin).(Goodbye America) by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsIvan PereverzevBoris LivanovSergey BondarchukHistorical epic about the legendary Russian naval commander of the 18th century, admiral Fyodor Ushakov, and his fight for Crimea during the Russo-Turkish War.(Admiral Ushakov) by Mikhail Romm
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsTatyana SamoylovaAleksey BatalovVasiliy MerkurevVeronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.(The Cranes are Flying) A WWII movie by Mikhail Kalatozov
- DirectorSergey GerasimovStarsPyotr GlebovElina BystritskayaZinaida KirienkoAn epic story of shattered lives of the Don Cossacks through chaos of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the following Civil War.A marvelous epic story about Don's Cossacks soldiers and their dis-obeisance to the Reds. Also a wide fresco of Russian peasants during the civil-war - their habits, their life in very dramatic aspects. Cinematographic precise presentation of the world-known book of (one book writer but famous Michael Solohov, "Calm Don") by Sergey Gerasimov
- DirectorRoman TikhomirovStarsAriadna ShengelaiaGalina VishnevskayaSvetlana NemolyaevaThe uncle's illness forces the nobleman Eugene Onegin to leave St. Petersburg for the countryside.by Roman Tikhovirov
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana SamoylovaVasiliy LivanovFour geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.(Letter never sent) Searching for diamonds in far and frozen Siberia by Mikhail Kalatozov
- DirectorRoman TikhomirovStarsOleg StrizhenovZurab AnjaparidzeOlga Krasina(Queen of Spades) by Roman Tikhomirov Opera
- DirectorMikhail RommStarsAleksey BatalovInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyTatyana LavrovaNuclear physicists are risking their lives for scientific achievements.(Nine days in one year) by Mikhail Romm
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.(I am Cuba) Cuba before Fidel Castro and soon after by Mikhail Kalatozov
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevStarsInnokentiy SmoktunovskiyMikhail NazvanovElza RadzinaAfter the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.(Hamlet) Hamlet's best performance by Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, also best on screen direction of Shakespear's play - by Grigoriy Kozintsev
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsMayya BulgakovaSergey NikonenkoZhanna BolotovaA fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.(Wings) - A film about a not to be forgotten glorious past by a woman former aviator who became a simple schoolteacher by Larisa Shepitko
- DirectorRoman TikhomirovStarsNelli PshyonnayaBerik AlimbaevE. KharkevichAn adaptation into film of the opera by Alexander Borodin of the same name, in turn based on the poem "The Lay of Igor's Host".(Tsar Igor) by Roman Tikhovirov Opera
- DirectorGrigoriy KozintsevIosif ShapiroStarsJüri JärvetElza RadzinaGalina VolchekA Soviet adaptation of a world-famous tragedy about an aged king and how cruelly he lose his illusions.(King Lear) by Grigoriy Kozintsev
- DirectorLarisa ShepitkoStarsBoris PlotnikovVladimir GostyukhinSergey YakovlevTwo Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.(The Ascent) - A film about war surviving: Collaborate with the nazzis or keeping silent and lose life? by Larisa Shepitko
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsFranco NeroUrsula AndressJorge LukeA chronicle of the Russian and Mexican revolutions in the early 20th century.(Mexico in Flames) by Sergey Bondarchuk
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsAnatoli UstyzhaninovFranco NeroSydne RomeThe last of a two-part film centered on the life and career of John Reed, the revolutionary communist journalist.(Red Bells II) by Sergey Bondarchuk
- DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynIvan LapikovNikolay GrinkoThe life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinDmitriy VasilevStarsNikolay CherkasovNikolai OkhlopkovAndrei AbrikosovThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
- DirectorAleksandr ZarkhiStarsAnatoliy SolonitsynEvgeniya SimonovaEwa SzykulskaA biographical romance about the famous Russian writer.
- DirectorRoman TikhomirovStarsNelli PshyonnayaBerik AlimbaevE. KharkevichAn adaptation into film of the opera by Alexander Borodin of the same name, in turn based on the poem "The Lay of Igor's Host".
- DirectorVladimir PetrovStarsAleksei DikijMaksim ShtraukhViktor KhokhryakovA large-scale battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from the point of view of Stalin.
- DirectorIvan PyrevStarsYuriy YakovlevYuliya BorisovaNikita PodgornyUpon Prince Myshkin's return to St. Petersburg from an asylum in Switzerland, he becomes beguiled by the lovely young Aglaya, daughter of a wealthy father. But his deepest emotion is for the wanton, Nastasia. The choices all are forced to make lead to great tragedy.