What 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein is about a battleship mutiny?

The 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein about a battleship mutiny is Battleship Potemkin.

The Soviet film dramatizes the 1905 revolt of sailors aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin. The uprising begins after the crew protests rotten meat and harsh treatment, then refuses an attempted mass execution by the ship’s officers.

Eisenstein originally worked from a broader revolutionary screenplay but narrowed the story to the Potemkin mutiny. His highly structured editing, especially the rapid montage during the massacre on the Odessa Steps, made the film a defining work of silent cinema.

The film is based on real events but takes major dramatic liberties. The famous Odessa Steps massacre was not shown as a literal reconstruction of one documented incident, and the film reshapes several events to create a revolutionary parable. The title is also sometimes transliterated as Battleship Potyomkin.