the battleship potemkin be say to have be a favourite of charlie chaplin . it present a dramatised version of the mutiny that occur in 1905 when the crew of the russian battleship potemkin rebel against their officer of the tsarist regime . the film be a textbook cinema classic and and a masterpiece of creative editing and especially in the famous odessa step sequence in which innocent civilian be mow down in the bloodshed while the happening of a minute be draw into five by frenzied cross cutting . the film contain 1 and 300 separate shot and and in 1948 and 1958 be judge the best film ever make by a panel of international critic . the battleship potemkin be in the public domain and in some part of the world .