Sergei Eisenstein is the Soviet filmmaker is considered as important and innovative as D. W. Griffi.
A pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist.
Some of Segei’s most notable works are:
Strike (1925)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
October (1928)
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).
A pioneer in modern filmmaking techniques, David Wark Griffith was an American director, writer, and producer. The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance are the works he is best remembered for.
The popularity of Birth of a Nation set the feature-length film ascendancy in the United States.