The 1800s were an incredibly dynamic century so enough with the bougie shows about royalty and aristocrats. Gimme a show about the factory workers in the midst of the Industrial Revolution and their fight for labor rights.
I want to see workers suffering under the capitalist's yoke, reading theory, organizing in secret, striking and fighting. Some rich character drama in the factions that don't want to lose their jobs by unionizing, or in finding rats among them, or facing against the police.
Give me that worker's struggle drama instead of yet another goddamn aristocracy show
There's a brilliant Russian silent film called Strike! that you should check out. It's been a while since I watched it but it's about Russia becoming industrialized and the workers striking for their rights. It's really funny and has some clever and witty uses of perspective.
Every Eisenstein film is pretty fuckin good tbh. You could go Strike! (1925) ---> Battleship Potemkin (1925) ---> October: Ten Days That Shook The World (1927) to get a trilogy of sorts, concluding with the glorious October Revolution :lenin-pogger:
Agreed. To hook people on stuff like that I think "Pride" (post 2000) is nice. It makes a lot of people watching want to be more active. From then on you can use the Soviet movie precedence.