>>512849740 (OP)Even filmmakers like Spike Lee acknowledge the importance of this film. It's not even for it being the template for political propaganda, but for the filmmaking techniques it invented and employed that were completely new and original and subsequently imitated to this day.
Indeed you will find this on many filmmakers top 10 lists, they're looking at the cinematography, editing, music. In the same way that Citizen Kane is always listed, it's not narratively fantastic but the filmmaking achievement was revolutionary.
It really surpasses kino actually.