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54 films in this collection
Collection no. #88170 minYakov Protazanov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
Three stories reveal people adjusting their behavior to rank and authority. A young wife's social success separates her from her struggling family; a…
Collection no. #88373 minYuri Tarich
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A gifted serf dreams of building wings during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. His ability to repair machines brings him under the control of powerful…
Collection no. #88462 minVsevolod Pudovkin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Experiments with animals and observations of human behavior introduce the viewer to reflexes and learned responses. Pudovkin organizes scientific…
Collection no. #90363 minAleksei Popov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two soap-factory workers invent a machine to improve packaging, but their employer shows little interest and a private supplier sees it as a threat.…
Collection no. #90864 minNina Agadzhanova-Shutko
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A circus clown dreams of performing a joint act with his son, whose commitment to the revolutionary cause draws him into the Russian Civil War. When…
Collection no. #9864 minS.M. Eisenstein
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Glumov's secret diary becomes the center of a rapid series of appearances, escapes and comic transformations. A theft sends a performer from a…
Collection no. #99435 minYuri Zhelyabuzhsky
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A stepmother sends a young woman into the winter forest, expecting the cold to dispose of her. Instead, the girl's encounter with Father Frost…
Collection no. #101217 minAbram Room
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Jewish settlers cultivate land, establish communities and carry out everyday work in the Black Sea region and Crimea. The film presents their…
Collection no. #103371 minIvane Perestiani
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
The young scouts from Red Devils receive another mission after Nestor Makhno escapes from captivity with help from his supporters. Misha, Dunyasha,…
Collection no. #110051 minYakov Bliokh
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Images of Shanghai's port, factories and streets are set against the leisure of wealthy foreign residents. The contrast makes labor and privilege the…
Collection no. #113014 minMikhail Tsekhanovsky
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A letter sets out to reach the traveling writer Boris Zhitkov. Each stop brings it to a place he has already left, sending it onward across national…
Collection no. #115467 minBoris Mikhin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Zaur intervenes when an officer mistreats a fellow villager and becomes an outlaw after the officer's accidental death. Taking refuge in the…
Collection no. #158640 minGrigori Kozintsev
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Sailor Ivan Shorin meets Valya during shore leave and misses his ship. What begins as a romantic diversion draws him into a criminal circle. Refusing…
Collection no. #16356 minNikolai Khodatayev
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Wealthy fugitives flee a revolutionary Earth in an extraordinary spacecraft. A Red Army figure follows them into space and carries the struggle to…
Collection no. #406120 minGrigori Aleksandrov
120 min · Subtitles: English
A struggling peasant woman sees little hope in working a tiny farm alone. She joins other villagers to organize a cooperative, confronting distrust,…
Collection no. #407120 minVsevolod Pudovkin
120 min · Subtitles: English
A Mongolian trapper's quarrel with a dishonest trader draws him into a much larger struggle for power. After his capture, foreign occupiers decide…