"Though not given a New York showing until 1935, V. I. Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain (Mekhanika Golovnovo Mozga) was written and directed by Pudovkin in 1926. A full year in the making, this scientific documentary concentrates on the behavioral studies conducted by Prof. Ivan Pavlov. The laboratory dogs used in Pavlov's research don't seem too happy about it, and as a result this film might be hard to take for the more sensitive viewers (the vivisection sequence is particularly rough). The progress of the research is detailed with charts and graphs, hardly the "cinematic" touches one might expect from Pudovkin. Interestingly, Mechanics of the Brains was released two years before the results of Pavlov's studies were printed in book form."
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Origins of Life
2001
The Brain
2008
An Inconvenient Truth
2006
Beziehung wirkt Wunder - Was Kinder und Jugendliche zum Aufwachsen brauchen
2011
Pyramid
2002
How William Shatner Changed the World
2005
Darwin's Darkest Hour
2009
Bodysong
2003
The Creeping Garden
2014
Here Be Dragons
2008
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
2003
Take the World From Another Point of View
1973