OVERALL: Draw

- R2 UK Tartan boxset has three versions of the movie/soundtrack, including Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 soundtracks, and a featurette.
- R0 US has only one version of the movie/soundtrack, with Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1, but it offers a documentary. Unfortunately, the transfer is non-progressive.
- R0 Scandinavia has also only one version of the movie/soundtrack, with Dolby Digital 5.1, but it has the same documentary than the one found on the US edition and is progressive. Unfortunately, it isn't English friendly.
- R2 UK BFI has a 5.1 and 2.0 soundtracks of the original 1926 score with additional bonus films.
- R0 Australian Bounty Films' release has an exclusive commentary and bonus films.

General notes:
*The movie was shot at 18fps, meaning that some pictures had to be duplicated to achieve a video transfer keeping the same pace than the original movie.
*The following movie/soundtrack versions are known:
- The 'Edmund Meisel music score' was commissioned by the German distributor when the film became a hit there and is considered as the original score.
- The 'Nikolai Kryukov music score' was released in 1956: it has a spoken introduction in Russian explaining the historical context of the events in the film.
- The 'Ed Hughes music score' is a new score commissioned for the R2 UK Tartan Video release and performed by The New Music Players.

CUTS:

• R0 America- Kino Video - No cuts - includes the film with English intertitles (69:08) and the film with the original Russian intertitles (68:44).
• R0 Australia- Bounty Films - No cuts (70:46 NTSC).
• R0 Scandinavia- Atlantic Film - No cuts - Russian opening credits and intertitles and German restauration closing credits (68:46 PAL).
• R1 America- Image Entertainment - No cuts (74:06 NTSC).
• R2 United Kingdom- Eureka - No cuts - credits are in English (73:12 PAL).
• R2 Sergei Eisenstein Volume 1 United Kingdom- Palisades Tartan - No cuts - includes:
  - the "Ed Hughes music score" version (73:53 PAL), with English credits and Russian intertitles,
  - the "Nikolai Kryukov music score" version (63:00 PAL), with English credits and Russian intertitles,
  - the "Edmund Meisel music score" version (65:59 PAL), with English credits and intertitles.
• R2 The Soviet Influence United Kingdom- British Film Institute - No cuts (66:01 PAL)
• R4 Australia- Force Video - No cuts.

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Comparison added by Craig on 14/07/01
Comparison last updated by James-Masaki_Ryan on 28/08/17

UPDATE LOG:

28/04/10 : Addition of R0 US.
22/05/10 : Addition of R0 Scandinavia.
16/07/15 : Addition of the UK BFI, capsaholic
28/08/17: Added Australia Bounty.