Considered by many to be one of the greatest films ever made, director Sergei Einstein’s Battleship Potemkin presents a dramatization of a true happening: when sailors are fed rancid meat, those aboard the Potemkin revolt against their conditions. After killing the officers of the ship to gain their freedom, Ukranian sailor Grigory Vakulinchuk is also killed and the people of Odessa honor him as a symbol of revolution. Tsarist soldiers arrive and massacre the civilians to quell the uprising. A squadron of ships is sent to overthrow the Potemkin, but the ships side with the revolt and refuse to attack. One hundred years after its production, we’ll revisit this classic and its themes of old and oppressive regimes, mass unrest and solidarity of like-minded forces.