Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Name: Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Uploaded: 2026-09-01
Duration: 1 h 13 min
Description: Sailors on a Tsarist warship revolt over maggot-ridden rations, the port of Odessa rises with them, and the army answers on the harbour steps. Eisenstein turns a 1905 mutiny into a furious lesson in montage, cutting rhythm and image until a pram rolling down stone stairs becomes the most copied minute in film history.

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1925 · 1h 13m · Silent

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

public domain

US public domain — published 1925; the maximum US term of 95 years from publication expired on 1 January 2021.

Sailors on a Tsarist warship revolt over maggot-ridden rations, the port of Odessa rises with them, and the army answers on the harbour steps. Eisenstein turns a 1905 mutiny into a furious lesson in montage, cutting rhythm and image until a pram rolling down stone stairs becomes the most copied minute in film history.

Propaganda built like a bomb. Ninety years on, the Odessa Steps still set the template for every crowd-versus-state sequence that followed.

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