7.3/10

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Starring: Valeri Inkizhanov, I Inkizhanov, L Dedintsev

Director Vsevolod Pudovkin's epic is set on the Soviet Asian frontier and tells of a rebellious young Mongol trapper who is set up as a "puppet leader... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Grigori Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Vasili Nikandrov, N Popov, Boris Livanov

Aka 'Ten Days That Shook The World'. Eisenstein's famous recreation of the October Revolution during which the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky gover... Read more

7.3/10

Director: F W Murnau

Starring: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Emil Jannings

Famous German filmmaker FW Murnau's interpretation of Moliere's satirical play about a devious housekeeper who convinces her master to cut his son out... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Arnold Fanck

Starring: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen

In director Arnold Fanck's breathtaking silent drama, considered by many to be the epitome of the German "mountain film" genre, Leni Riefenstahl plays... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Starring: Maxim Shtraukh, Grigori Alexandrov, Mikhail Gomorov

In 1922, Lenin also had said that, "...of all of the arts, for us the cinema was the most important." In 1924, the Proletkult offered Eisenstein, then... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese

Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrueck, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova

Directed, produced by and starring Paul Wegener, "Der Golem" is a masterpiece of early cinema. The story centres on a Jewish community threatened with... Read more

5.3/10

Director: Evgenii Bauer

The films of Russian cinema pioneer Evgenii Bauer were thought to be lost until the dying days of the Soviet regime when 20 of his 80 films were recov... Read more