The Best Movie Of Each Year From 1925-2025

101. 1925 - Battleship Potemkin

Honourable Mentions: The Big Parade, The Gold Rush, The Phantom of the Opera

A founding figure of Soviet cinema and a director whose influence looms large over our greatest contemporary filmmakers, Sergei Eisenstein's pioneering powers led to some of the greatest films of the 1920s and 1930s, the most potent of which remains his 1925 masterwork, Battleship Potemkin. It's a fierce retelling of the famous mutiny that took place during the Russo-Japanese War against the backdrop of the 1905 Russian Revolution, breathtaking in both its drama and imagery, and perhaps the definitive entry in the canon of silent cinema.