Que Viva Mexico! (1979)

After attempts to work in the US film industry fell through, Sergei Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in hopes of making a film about its culture and history. Though not completed in his lifetime, this is a version of the footage, edited by longtime collaborator Grigori Aleksandrov, that attempts to faithfully create Eisenstein’s vision. Silent footage interspersed with narration and exposition, it’s an episodic journey into Mexico’s history from the Mayan civilization to the Mexican Revolution that serves as an interesting artifact of Mexico at the time and also the vision of Eisenstein.