The film is based on a story about the mutiny on the battleship Prince Potemkin in 1905. Residents of Odessa supported the insurrection of sailors, which led to the bloody shooting of the crowd by the tsar's troops. The film was twice (in 1952 and 1958) was called "the best world film".
Restored and voiced by Shostakovich's music, the historical-revolutionary epic is sketched in all the film schools of the world. In 1978, the "Battleship" topped the list of one hundred best films of all time, according to a poll of hundreds of film critics from 59 countries.
- Gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris (France). (1926)
- The film is named the best in the history of cinema by the Referendum of one hundred of the world's largest cinematographers in Belgium. (1954)
- The film was named the first among the most important in the history of cinema Referendum, conducted by the magazine "Cinema" (Poland). (1972)
- The film was recognized as the best in 1926 by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts in Los Angeles (USA). (1926)
- The film is named the third of the ten best films in the history of motion picture art by a referendum of critics, conducted by the magazine Site and Sound (England) (1972)
- The film was named the first of the one hundred best movies in the history of cinema by a survey of world cinema experts, conducted by the Italian publishing house A.Mondadori in Milan (Italy) (1978)