If you like your early-20th-century space adventure with a dollop of "We Are All Us!" Lunarisms, then I can recommend AELITA (1924, Dir: Yakonov Protazanov--based on the novel of the same name by Alexei Tolstoy).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3UB71TaZxk
Sadly, the commonly recited premise--two-fisted Heroes of the Proletariat go to an ERBesque Mars to woo a queen and foment a socialist revolution ("Comrades! Only you can help yourselves! ... Form the Federal Socialist Republic of Mars!")--perhaps sounds more intriguing than its actual execution (it doesn't quite unfold in the manner you might think). Which is a bit harsh, as it's a landmark of sci-fi (indeed any) cinema.
But the idea of 1920s-styled, Lunar Inclusivite heroes going out and bringing revolution to the mythtrodden peoples of Glorantha is something that I've happily taken.
Stew.
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