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TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Battleship Potemkin
1925
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
BD
The Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Vertov, Dziga
Soviet Union
BDS
Andrei Roublev
1966
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
BD
Solaris
1972
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
BD
Earth
1930
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
D
Ivan the Terrible, Part One
1945
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
Soviet Union
D
Come and See
1985
Klimov, Elem
Soviet Union
BD
Strike
1925
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
Soviet Union
BD
Alexander Nevsky
1938
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Vasilyev, Dmitri
Soviet Union
D
War and Peace
1966
Bondarchuk, Sergei
Soviet Union
BD
The Cranes Are Flying
1957
Kalatozov, Mikhail
Soviet Union
BD
Leviathan
2014
Zvyagintsev, Andrey
Russia
BD
Ivan the Terrible, Part Two
1958
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Filimonova, M.
Soviet Union
D
October (Ten Days That Shook the World)
1928
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
Y
The Mirror
1975
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
D
Russian Ark
2002
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
Germany
BD
Ballad of a Soldier
1959
Chukraj, Grigori
Soviet Union
Y
The Thief
1997
Chukhraj, Pavel
Russia
/
France
D
Burnt by the Sun
1994
Mikhalkov, Nikita
France
/
Russia
D
Mother
1926
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Soviet Union
BY
My Name Is Ivan
1962
Tarkovsky, Andrei
/
Abalov, Eduard
Soviet Union
Y
Stalker
1979
Tarkovsky, Andrei
West Germany
/
Soviet Union
BD
Mother and Son
1997
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Germany
/
Russia
V
Dersu Uzala
1975
Kurosawa, Akira
Soviet Union
/
Japan
D
Loveless
2017
Zvyagintsev, Andrey
Russia
/
France
BD
I Am Cuba
1964
Kalatozov, Mikhail
Soviet Union
/
Cuba
D
Storm Over Asia
1928
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Soviet Union
BD
The Asthenic Syndrome
1989
Muratova, Kira
Soviet Union
Nostalghia
1983
Tarkovsky, Andrei
Italy
/
France
/
Soviet Union
Y
Hamlet
1964
Kozintsev, Grigori
/
Shapiro, Iosif
Soviet Union
D
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky
1938
Donskoy, Mark
Soviet Union
D
Prisoner of the Mountains
1996
Bodrov, Sergei
Russia
/
Kazakhstan
Y
Que viva Mexico!
1932
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
/
USA
/
Mexico
Y
Night Watch
2004
Bekmambetov, Timur
Russia
BD
Arsenal
1928
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
/
Ukraine
D
Dear Comrades!
2020
Konchalovskiy, Andrey
Russia
The Return
2003
Zvyagintsev, Andrei
Russia
Y
Old and New
1929
Eisenstein, Sergei M.
/
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
On His Own
1939
Donskoy, Mark
Soviet Union
My Universities
1940
Donskoy, Mark
Soviet Union
The Overcoat
1959
Batalov, Aleksei
Soviet Union
Oblomov
1979
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Soviet Union
D
12
2007
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Russia
D
A Private Conversation
1983
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Soviet Union
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
1979
Menshov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Y
The Ascent
1976
Shepitko, Larisa
Soviet Union
BD
Taxi Blues
1990
Lungin, Pavel
Soviet Union
/
France
Y
Deserter
1933
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Soviet Union
D
Viy
1967
Yershov, Konstantin
/
Kropachyov, Georgi
Soviet Union
D
Peter the First, Part One
1937
Petrov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
A Child of the Big City
1914
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
V
The Great Consoler
1933
Kuleshov, Lev
Soviet Union
The End of St. Petersburg
1927
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
/
Doller, Mikhail
Soviet Union
BD
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
1913
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
D
Outskirts
1933
Barnet, Boris
Soviet Union
Y
Tangerines
2013
Urushadze, Zaza
Estonia
/
Georgia
D
Tchaikovsky
1969
Talankin, Igor
Soviet Union
Y
Little Vera
1988
Pichul, Vasili
Soviet Union
Y
Siberiada
1979
Konchalovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
Y
Queen of Spades
1960
Tikhomirov, Roman
Soviet Union
V
Poprigunya
1955
Samsonov, Samson
Soviet Union
Silent Souls
2010
Fedorchenko, Aleksei
Russia
D
The Tribe
2014
Slaboshpitsky, Miroslav
Ukraine
/
Netherlands
BD
Beanpole
2019
Balagov, Kantemir
Russia
BD
The Lady with the Dog
1960
Khejfits, Iosif
Soviet Union
D
Zvenigora
1928
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
D
Asya's Happiness
1966
Konchalovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
King Lear
1971
Kozintsev, Grigori
/
Shapiro, Iosif
Soviet Union
D
Of Freaks and Men
1998
Balabanov, Aleksey
Russia
D
Bolshaya semya
1954
Kheifits, Iosif
Soviet Union
Y
The Cameraman's Revenge
1912
Starewicz, Wladyslaw
Russia
D
Domestic Agitator
1920
Zhelyabuzhsky, Yuri
Russia
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
1924
Kuleshov, Lev
Soviet Union
D
The Great Citizen
1938
Ermler, Fridrikh
Soviet Union
Hunger... Hunger... Hunger
1921
Gardin, Vladimir
/
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Russia
Infinite Sorrow
1922
Panteleyev, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
The Insects' Christmas
1912
Starewicz, Wladyslaw
Russia
D
Kino-Eye
1924
Vertov, Dziga
Soviet Union
D
The Kreutzer Sonata
1911
Chardynin, Pyotr
Russia
Leningrad in Combat
1942
Karmen, Roman
/
Komarevtsev, N.
/
Solovtsov, Valeri
/
Uchitel, Yefim
Soviet Union
Locksmith and Chancellor
1923
Gardin, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Mat
1955
Donskoy, Mark
Soviet Union
Mother
1920
unknown
Russia
On the Red Front
1920
Kuleshov, Lev
Russia
Osvobozhdeniye
1940
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
/
Solntseva, Yuliya
Soviet Union
Otello
1955
Yutkevich, Sergei
Soviet Union
Padeniye Berlina
1950
Chiaureli, Mikheil
Soviet Union
Peter the First, Part Two
1938
Petrov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Petersburg Nights
1934
Roshal, Grigori
/
Stroyeva, Vera
Soviet Union
Poem of the Sea
1959
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
/
Solntseva, Yuliya
Soviet Union
Prekrasnaya Lyukanida
1912
Starewicz, Wladyslaw
Russia
Quiet Flows the Don
1957
Gerasimov, Sergei
Soviet Union
D
Restless Youth
1954
Alov, Aleksandr
/
Naumov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Revizor
1952
Petrov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Shchors
1939
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
/
Solntseva, Yuliya
Soviet Union
Shestaya chast mira
1926
Vertov, Dziga
Soviet Union
A Simple Case
1932
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Soviet Union
Stenka Razin
1908
Romashkov, Vladimir
Russia
V
Swineherd and Shepherd
1941
Pyryev, Ivan
Soviet Union
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Three Songs About Lenin
1934
Vertov, Dziga
Soviet Union
D
Tractor Drivers
1939
Pyryev, Ivan
Soviet Union
Vasili's Return
1952
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
Soviet Union
Victory of the Chinese People
1950
Gerasimov, Sergei
/
Dukinsky, Ivan
China
/
Soviet Union
Volga-Volga
1938
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
V
The Brothers Karamazov
1969
Pyryev, Ivan
/
Lavrov, Kirill
/
Ulyanov, Mikhail
Soviet Union
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
1972
Rostotsky, Stanislav
Soviet Union
Private Life
1982
Raizman, Yuli
Soviet Union
Y
War-Time Romance
1983
Todorovsky, Pyotr
Soviet Union
White Bim Black Ear
1970
Rostotsky, Stanislav
Soviet Union
The New Babylon
1929
Kozintsev, Grigori
/
Trauberg, Leonid
Soviet Union
Velikiy perelom
1945
Ermler, Fridrikh
Soviet Union
Bumaznyj soldat
2008
German, Aleksei Ml.
Russia
Captain Volkonogov Escaped
2021
Chupov, Aleksey
/
Merkulova, Natasha
Russia
/
France
/
Estonia
Ejforija
2006
Vyrypaev, Ivan
Russia
Garpastum
2005
German, Aleksei Ml.
Russia
Glinka
1946
Arnshtam, Lev
Soviet Union
Izmena
2012
Serebrennikov, Kirill
Russia
Malva
1956
Braun, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Mir vkhodyashchemu
1961
Alov, Aleksandr
/
Naumov, Vladimir
Soviet Union
Mne dvadtsat let
1964
Khutsiyev, Marlen
Soviet Union
Paradise
2016
Konchalovskiy, Andrey
Russia
/
Germany
Pervyy uchitel
1965
Konchalovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
The Postman's White Nights
2014
Konchalovskiy, Andrey
Russia
D
Sadko
1953
Ptushko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
Y
Udalionnyy dostup
2004
Proskurina, Svetlana
Russia
Vesna
1947
Aleksandrov, Grigori
Soviet Union
Vstupleniye
1962
Talankin, Igor
Soviet Union
Baltic Deputy
1937
Khejfits, Iosif
/
Zarkhy, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
Chapayev
1934
Vasilyev, Georgi
/
Vasilyev, Sergei
Soviet Union
Golden Mountains
1931
Yutkevich, Sergei
Soviet Union
The New Gulliver
1935
Ptushko, Aleksandr
/
Vanichkin, A.
Soviet Union
Peasants
1935
Ermler, Fridrikh
Soviet Union
Professor Mamlock
1938
Minkin, Adolf
/
Rappaport, Gerbert
Soviet Union
Road to Life
1931
Ekk, Nikolai
Soviet Union
Slave of Love
1976
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Soviet Union
D
Son of Mongolia
1936
Trauberg, Ilya
Soviet Union
/
Mongolia
A Summer to Remember
1960
Daneliya, Georgi
/
Talankin, Igor
Soviet Union
Uncle Vanya
1970
Konchalovsky, Andrei
Soviet Union
We Are from Kronstadt
1936
Dzigan, Efim
Soviet Union
The Youth of Maxim
1935
Kozintsev, Grigori
/
Trauberg, Leonid
Soviet Union
Whispering Pages
1993
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
Germany
BD
The Edge
2010
Uchitel, Aleksei
Russia
Lost in Siberia
1991
Mitta, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
/
UK
Aerograd
1935
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
By the Law
1926
Kuleshov, Lev
Soviet Union
D
Chess Fever
1925
Pudovkin, Vsevolod
/
Shpikovsky, Nikolai
Soviet Union
Y
The Enchanted Desna
1965
Solntseva, Yuliya
Soviet Union
Enthusiasm
1931
Vertov, Dziga
Soviet Union
Khrustalyov, My Car!
1998
German, Aleksei
Russia
/
France
Oriental Elegy
1996
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
Japan
D
The Russian Woodpecker
2014
Gracia, Chad
USA
/
UK
/
Ukraine
D
An Independent Life
1992
Kanevski, Vitali
Russia
/
France
Sorok pervyy
1956
Chukhraj, Grigori
Soviet Union
Alexandra
2007
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Russia
/
France
D
After Death
1915
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
D
The Dying Swan
1917
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
D
Robinson Crusoe
1946
Andriyevsky, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
Tale of Tales
1979
Norstein, Yuri
Soviet Union
By the Bluest of Seas
1936
Barnet, Boris
/
Mardanin, S.
Soviet Union
Anna
1993
Mikhalkov, Nikita
Russia
/
France
Y
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
1985
German, Aleksey
Soviet Union
Y
Wings
1966
Shepitko, Larisa
Soviet Union
D
The Days of Eclipse
1988
Sokurov, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
Happiness
1932
Medvedkin, Aleksandr
Soviet Union
D
A Life for a Life
1916
Bauer, Yevgeni
Russia
V
A Long Goodbye
1987
Muratova, Kira
Soviet Union
NR
Elena
2011
Zvyagintsev, Andrey
Russia
D
NR
The Whaler Boy
2020
Yuryev, Philipp
Russia
/
Poland
/
Belgium
D
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T Theaters (US)
B
Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack