Man With a Movie Camera (1929) | Blu-ray release – This masterclass in Soviet cinema is the Number 1 documentary of all time | Movie Talk | What's on TV

'I am the camera eye, I am the mechanical eye. I am the machine which shows you the world as only I can see it' Dziga Vertov

Voted the greatest documentary of all time in the 2014 Sight & Sound poll, Soviet director Dziga Vertov’s radical, ground-breaking 1929 city-symphony, Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek's kino-apparatom), used every trick in the cinematic textbook and invented new ones to record the Moscow masses at work and at play from dawn to dusk, while celebrating the cameraman as hero.

Hugely influential, Vertov's dazzling film certainly lives up to its reputation as one of the most contemporary of silent movies – and continues to inspire awe with each revisit thanks to its virtuso camera trickery. This is cinema vérité supreme.

On 27 July 2015 the BFI in the UK will release a Special Edition Blu-ray http://youtube.com/v/BtTlgxtoqhg