Revolution

1789: Regarded as one of the most influential of all socio-political revolutions, the French Revolution is associated with the rise of the bourgeoisie and the downfall of the aristocracy.

1775–1783: The American Revolution establishes independence of the thirteen North American colonies from Great Britain, creating the republic of the United States of America.

1956–1959: The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro removes the government of General Fulgencio Batista. By 1962 Cuba had been transformed into a declared socialist republic.

1989: The Romanian Revolution kills the dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and his wife, Elena Ceaucescu in the Socialist Republic of Romania.

1979: The Iranian Revolution overthrows the Shah, resulting in the formation of Islamic republic of Iran.

It presents a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime.