Growing up in the Cold War it would have been unthinkable to see this on broadcast television, and never in any but the seediest avant-garde movie houses in the Village or Harvard. The camera work is excellent. So is the lighting. I'm certain the dialogue resembles the original not at all. There are whole speeches and rhetoric going on for minutes which are explained away with quips: 'They rebel!' and the like. Detach from the obvious propaganda film and look at it as a historical artifact. The images are quite stirring are they not?

Great propaganda film on a par with Reefer Madness.

Like life - reviews are subjective. I read reviews re: kills the Jews as being unsettling. And that is how it should be. Unsettling. To ignore history, man will repeat it. To remove words from Mark Twain classics is like saying the holocaust did not happen. Historically, all literature and film and stage plays and music are contemporary to their time, their viewpoints and their opinions. This film cannot be compared to Casablanca as one cannot compare Frank Capra to Mel Brooks or Blake Edwards. The style they used, their embrace of the media will stand the test and records of time. I was a friend and worked with Miss Lillian Gish over 35 years. She was aware of the evolution of film. She, as D.W. Griffith noted: the silent film was the universal language. For then, film married music - not words, not sound language. There are many languages but the nuance expressed in the really good silent films is eternal. Would Casablanca and other sounds films still evoke the same "magic" they did when first released? To some, yes. But to others, their dialgogue would be considered antiquated. Why we like, why we love certain movies is subjective. Because when we first saw them - what we were feeling, where we were in life, what we were then, that is the myriad of factors why we all love and like certain music, certain films. The love is intangible and cannot be defined. Perhaps those movies are like the song The Way We Were - or that once upon a time - that can never come again. It is profoundly personal.

Beautiful imagery. It is easy to see why this is one of the all-time greats of silent film.

This film was noted for its daring use of montage, as well as what was then considered to be a shocking portrayal of violence. Josef Goebbels was very impressed with it and it served as an inspiration of many Nazi propaganda films. It clearly expresses the Bolshevik point of view of the evils and duplicity of religion.They didn't make a sequel. If they had, it would have shown the counter mutiny of the other battleship, the difficulties in getting stores, the flight of some 600 crew into Romania the recapture of the ship and the actions of the Russian government in promising amnesty for the leader of the Potemkin mutiny and his subsequent hanging. The last survivor of the crew died in the 1980's after many years running a fish and chips business in Ireland.