# Sergei Eisenstein's best films

From Strike to Ivan the Terrible: Eisenstein's films according to Kuban 24 and Vechernyaya Moskva, led by Battleship Potemkin.

- 53 votes · 10 items
- Jan 31, 2024 · Nastya Egorova
- https://even.best/en/l/3272/sergei-eisenstein-s-best-films

## Top 10

1. **Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944)** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Nikolai Cherkasov as the tsar; the first part.
2. **Battleship Potemkin (1925)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The Odessa Steps; voted the greatest film of all time in Brussels in 1958.
3. **October: Ten Days That Shook the World (1927)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — The storming of the Winter Palace, made for the revolution's tenth anniversary.
4. **Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Shot in 1946, banned, and released only in 1958; with a colour banquet scene.
5. **The General Line (1929)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Collectivisation in the countryside, also known as Old and New.
6. **Bezhin Meadow (1937)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A banned and lost film, reconstructed from still frames.
7. **Glumov's Diary (1923)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A short film made for his staging of Ostrovsky.
8. **Strike (1925)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — His first feature and his early montage experiments.
9. **Alexander Nevsky (1938)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The Battle on the Ice, scored by Prokofiev.
10. **¡Que viva México! (1932)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — His unfinished Mexican film, assembled by Grigori Aleksandrov in 1979.

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