Set in pre-World War I Tsarist Russia, the story depicts a strike by factory workers and its brutal suppression by the authorities.

Title on videodisc label and container: Sergei Eisenstein's Strike. Originally released as a motion picture in 1925; remastered from a print taken from the original camera negative in 1999, and new subtitles added. "Contains a new and illuminating audio commentary by Yuri Tsivian, Professor at the University of Chicago and one of the world's leading scholars of Russian and Soviet cinema"--Container.