Man with a Movie Camera is my favorite silent film. A day in the life of a socialist city. Filmed in Odessa, among other places, and with badass cinematography. If you’re expecting to be bored by a silent film, don’t - it’s bouncy, and jaunty, and wonderful.

Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and October are both worth seeing. October drags a bit but all communists ought to enjoy it. Potemkin is justifiably iconic. I didn’t enjoy his later films as much (including Ivan the Terrible), but some folk dig them.

The Cranes are Flying is a beautiful tearjerker about a woman whose fiance goes to fight in World War II. The same director also did I Am Cuba, an anthology portrait of Cuba after the Revolution.

Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace is suitably epic. He also directed a Napoleon film from another perspective, Waterloo, which I believe is in the public domain, so you can watch it on YouTube, and in English, too.

The Color of Pomegranates is stunningly gorgeous. It’s one of my all-time favorite films, but it’s more of a poem or a painting come to life, so only watch if you’re in that kind of mood.

I think Soy Cuba still holds up. Gotta approach it with a bit more attention span than common, contemporaneous cinema tho.

It has dialectics with film language, an increasingly radical set of characters, high-tech (for the time) IR film shots and some incredible long shots that still baffle the mind.

Battleship Potemkin, arguably the best silent film of all time.

Outside of kinda sad war movies, 12 chairs is funny (but book is also great) . Moscow does not believe in tears have not been mentioned, I think a lot of people like it