USSR
28/4 – Sergei M. Eisenstein's first feature film,Stachka (Strike), is released. It tells the story of workers who strike when a fellow worker commits suicide after being wrongfully accused of stealing a piece of equipment.
21/11 – Chess Fever, Vsevolod Pudovkin’s directorial debut, is released.
21/12 – The premiere of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin takes place in Moscow.