Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers.

Plot

In June 1905 the ''Potemkin'', a battleship of the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet is anchored off the island of Tendra. Onboard, two sailors, Matyushenko and Vakulinchuk, discuss the need for the crew to support the ongoing revolution in Russia. After their watch, when the off-duty sailors are asleep, an officer inspects the quarters. He stumbles and takes out his aggression on a sleeping sailor. The ruckus awakens Vakulinchuk, who gives a rousing speech linking the revolution back home to the sailors' own poor conditions, especially their maggot-infested rations.