Metropolis (1927 dir. Fritz Lang)

Early Thatcherism challenged by men silently shaking their fists.

4/5

The Birth of a Nation (1915 dir. D. W. Griffith)

Like a Michael Bay-directed Fox News history piece employing TOWIE make-up techniques.

4/5

Strike (1925 dir. Sergei Eisenstein)

Grubby Soviet types ruin manufacturing schedule without making a sound.

4/5

Battleship Potemkin (1925 Sergei Eisenstein)

Stairway shoot-out from ‘The Untouchables’ done properly by communists.

4/5