1927年，为纪念十月革命十周年而拍摄的纪录风格影片，片中群众角色很多为当时参与十月革命的工人和士兵，当时起义的领导之一Nikolai Podvolsky也参与演出一名布尔什维克（此公是十月革命十周年庆典组委会的主席，正是他向爱森斯坦委约了这部影片）。脚本参考了美国记者里德（John Reed）的新闻体纪实著作《震撼世界的十天》（Ten Days That Shook the World）。此片和《战舰波将金》、《罢工》一样，同为爱森斯坦二十年代探索蒙太奇剪辑的代表作。
通常上映的版本配乐，采用了苏联作曲家肖斯塔科维奇的交响作品和小品。

Eisenstein's first sound film, shot in Paris, "built around an old Russian love song sung by the wife of the man who commissioned the film. The song is paralleled by an intercutting of shots of nature, beginning with a storm at dusk, dissolving into a moody rain at night, and jubilantly bursting through the next morning's daybreak in the resplendent sunlight. The black grand piano the singer played now is a white one ... her sadness is now joy, and no longer is she in that closed-in chateau, but out in the open, in a field rapturous with grain swaying heavily in the wind as the song ends."
"Romance Sentimentale," which Eisenstein created with collaborators Alexandrov and Tisse in 1930, just prior to making Que Viva Mexico! In some respects it's an Eisensteinian Fantasia, combining image and music (a famous Russian love song) to create a visual tone poem. Even more impressive, in terms of Eisenstein's passion as a political storyteller, is the rare 20-minute excerpt from Misery and Fortune of Woman, which dramatizes the plight of European women seeking abortions under oppressive conditions. It's a small, gut-wrenching masterpiece, and hasn't lost a bit of its relevance.

这条总路线也被称为“新旧”（Staroye i Novoye），它在一首关于农业集体化进程的史诗般颂歌中阐明了列宁所说的国家从农业文化向工业文化转变的迫切性。

This short film shows the contrast between the good conditions in which a rich woman makes a abortion and the miserable and dangerous condition in which a poor woman has to do an abortion.

影片叙述了俄国伟大的作曲家格林卡自1828年起，在沙皇尼古拉一世黑暗的统治下的创作活动。由于格林卡不断的战斗并与人民密切联系，因而创作出富有民族形式的音乐，给俄国音乐开辟了一条宽阔胜利的道路。为俄国民族音乐奠下巩固的基础。被人民尊敬的称为俄国音乐之父。影片还表现了格林卡与俄国当代伟大的艺术家诗人普希金，作家果戈里之间的亲密友谊。

US - Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour in Moscow. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moscow.

Начальник управления мелкой кустарной промышленности Бывалов мечтает о службе в Москве. Он получает распоряжение подготовить к всесоюзному смотру участников художественной самодеятельности. Бывалов считает, что посылать в Москву некого, несмотря на то, что в городе есть два творческих коллектива. В конце концов каждая группа отправляется по Волге в столицу своим путем.

二战故事片

Merry Fellows was the first Soviet musical comedy. Set in Odessa and Moscow in the 1930's. Shepherd Kostya Potekhin (Utyosov) is mistaken for an international concert star. He falls in love with Anyuta (Orlova) and plays the "star" for her. In a cascade of comic musical numbers he becomes the leader of a Jazz-Band and gives a hilarious show at the Odessa Music Hall. Now he is destined to perform at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Written by Steve Shelokhonov