A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy that reminds us why cinema matters.

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Russian mother who became a celebrated child actor of the Stalinist era for his role in a 1930s propaganda film mythologizing ...