DVD
The battle of Russia
Performers
Narrated by Walter Huston, Anthony Veiler.
Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : GoodTimes Home Video Corp., c2000.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Part five of a propaganda series of seven information films shown to the American G.I. in the 1940s. Originally produced by the United States government for the Morale Services Division which documents the causes and events leading up to World War II and exhorts Americans to support the war effort. The Battle of Russia celebrates the spirit of the long-suffering Soviet people as they heroically repulse the Nazi invasion threatening their homeland. Tracing their history of war with Germany to the 13th century, it depicts the bitter struggles for Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, and Stalingrad, and the effects of their winters on would-be conquerors from Napoleon to Hitler.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 > Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Eastern Front.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945 > Propaganda.
- Motion pictures in propaganda > United States.
- Propaganda, American.
- Soviet Union > History > German occupation, 1941-1944.
- United States > History > 1933-1945.