# The best films about the 1917 Russian Revolution

From Eisenstein's October and Lenin in October to Doctor Zhivago and Reds: the films about the 1917 revolution recommended by Mel, Rambler Kino and AiF.

- 43 votes · 10 items
- Dec 13, 2020 · reelfan_nn
- https://even.best/en/l/4401/the-best-films-about-the-1917-russian-revolution

## Top 10

1. **Doctor Zhivago (1965)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — David Lean. Pasternak's novel with Omar Sharif.
2. **Reds (1981)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Warren Beatty. American journalist John Reed in Petrograd.
3. **October (1927)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Sergei Eisenstein. A silent film for the revolution's tenth anniversary.
4. **Lenin in October (1937)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Mikhail Romm. Lenin on the eve of the uprising.
5. **The Man with a Gun (1938)** (3 · ▲4 ▼1) — Sergei Yutkevich. A soldier who comes to Petrograd in 1917.
6. **Anastasia (1997)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. An animated film about the grand duchess legend.
7. **In the Days of October (1958)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Sergei Vasilyev. From John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World.
8. **Royal Cousins at War (2014)** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — BBC documentary series on Nicholas II, George V and Wilhelm II.
9. **The Russian Revolution (2017)** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — A documentary on the events of 1917.
10. **The Vyborg Side (1938)** (-4 · ▲0 ▼4) — Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. The third part of the Maxim trilogy.

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