Features

Alexander Nevsky disc: New digital image transfer with restored sound; a reconstruction of the unfinished film Bezhin Meadow, with scholar Jay Leyda's photos from the set; audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell; multimedia essay on the Prokofiev-Eisentstein collaboration by Russell Merritt; sketches and storyboards; freshly translated optional English subtitles
Ivan the Terrible, parts I and II discs: New digital image transfers, with restored sound; multimedia essay by scholar Yuri Tsivian on Eisenstein's visual vocabulary; multimedia cine-historical essay by scholar Joan Neuberger; sketches and storyboards; newly translated optional English subtitles

Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Chapters
1. Credits [1:37]
2. Opening text [:42]
3. Coronation [7:06]
4. Challenge to the boyars [3:55]
5. Poison in the ear [1:18]
6. Ivan's wedding feast [7:27]
7. "Moscow is in flames!" [5:21]
8. The Tartar envoys [2:25]
9. Laying siege [9:45]
10. The Battle of Kazan [2:09]
11. Kurbsky and Efrosinia [3:49]
12. Ivan's deathbed [5:50]
13. "Swear allegiance to my heir... Dmitri!" [6:12]
14. "Swear allegiance to Tsar Vladimir!" [7:11]
15. A miracle [3:30]
16. Meeting of the boyars [3:22]
17. Message to Queen Elizabeth [7:44]
18. Poison in the cup [3:44]
19. Doubt [5:50]
20. An iron ring [4:32]
21. The star abandons Moscow [1:51]
22. "O Return!"/The father of us all [3:49]
0. The History Of Ivan
1. Political Oppositions [5:15]
2. Identifications [9:54]
3. Images Of Power [8:03]
4. The Masses [6:12]
5. Boyars And Oprichniki [8:16]
Side #2 --
0. Chapters
1. Credits [:46]
2. Prologue [1:52]
3. The Polish court [4:40]
4. The tsar returns to Moscow [2:55]
5. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow [1:20]
6. Young Ivan's suffering [4:08]
7. Young Ivan takes charge [2:53]
8. The lonely tsar [3:25]
9. Malyuta, the red-headed dog [4:36]
10. The cup? The cup... [2:09]
11. Execution [2:22]
12. "I demand the tsar be humbled" [3:08]
13. The fiery furnace [8:58]
14. Suicide mission [4:32]
15. Lullaby the first [5:35]
16. A strange invitation [3:07]
17. Dance of the Oprichniki [7:24]
18. Tsar Vladimir? [9:09]
19. The cathedral [:00]
20. Lullaby the second [4:19]
21. The sword of justice [5:57]
22. End credits [:00]
0. Eisenstein's Visual Vocabulary
1. Body Memory [9:57]
2. Motifs [7:34]
3. Images On Walls [5:52]
4. Ivan The Terrible [4:20]
5. Montage Image [6:01]
Side #3 --
0. Chapters
1. Credits [:10]
2. The 13th century [2:05]
3. The Plescheevo Lake [1:33]
4. The Free City of Novgorod [8:03]
5. Debate in the town square [5:21]
6. Pskov [4:58]
7. Peryaslavl [8:19]
8. "Arise, you Russian people" [4:32]
9. Novgorod [2:27]
10. Off to hunt the Russian bear [6:38]
11. The rabbit and the fox [3:59]
12. Chudskoye Lake [3:00]
13. April 5, 1242 [4:32]
14. The battle is joined [6:19]
15. "For Russia!" [2:49]
16. German retreat [6:00]
17. Prince Alexander vs. The Master [5:32]
18. Germans overrun [1:21]
19. Death of Ignat [2:47]
20. Thin ice [:52]
21. Women and torches [3:02]
22. Pskov [9:13]
23. Court of justice [4:34]
24. Alexander the matchmaker [3:57]
25. "And now...let us celebrate" [3:38]
26. Epilogue [1:29]
0. Index
1. Introduction
2. Eisenstein's Style
3. Editing and framing
4. Nevsky as folk tale
5. Theatrical space
6. Power imagery
7. The expressive gesture
8. Elemental imagery
9. A new notion of "hero"