TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD is a documentary-style retelling of the Russian Revolution that saw the rise of Lenin and his Bolsheviks and the overthrow of the royal family. It comes across as a piece of propaganda and was directed by Russia's most famous director, no less than Sergei Eisenstein. The situation was a complex one and that complexity comes across well in this fast-paced silent film which is packed with memorable imagery and epic-feeling crowd scenes.
