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The Unknown War Movies

Posted by at Nov. 14, 2021

The Unknown War ()
The Unknown War is an American documentary television series. The 20-part series documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Each episode is about 48 minutes long, similar in format to The World at War. The footage was edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war, 22 June 1941, to the Soviet entry into Berlin in May 1945. Most of these films have never been seen outside this documentary series. The series is hosted by Academy Award Winner Burt Lancaster, who spent three weeks in eight cities in the USSR for location filming. Film footage from Soviet archives comprises a major portion of the series, supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives. Appearing in exclusive interviews would be Russian Commanders like Georgi Zhukov and Vasily Chuikov. The series was produced with Soviet cooperation after the release of The World at War, which the Soviet government felt paid insufficient attention to their part in World War II. Released in 1978, The Unknown War is sympathetic to the Soviet struggle against Nazi Germany. It was quickly withdrawn from TV airings after it ran in 1978, possibly because its tone was at odds with the growing tensions between East and West after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Later it returned to airings on cable, including A&E, the History Channel and YouTube.

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Holocaust - Complete Box set [2005] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at April 15, 2022

The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis’ systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, Romani, Soviet civilians, prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents.

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Taskovski Films - The Gold Spinners (2014) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 3, 2020

A Funny Probe Into the Absurd World of Soviet Commercials. True story about a fake reality or a fake story about true reality? The inhabitants of the countries of former Eastern Bloc can still remember the absurdity of television commercials in the socialist era, when such products as salad or things permanently out of stock were advertised. The Gold Spinners (Kullaketrajad) is a story about the birth, glory years and disappearance of the film studio Eesti Reklaamfilm – the only company producing advertisements in the Soviet Union.

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Nazis and Blondes (2008) Movies

Posted by pgf000 at Oct. 9, 2009

Synopsis: What was the role of the Baltic film actors in creating the figure of the enemy in the Soviet time cinema?
Many generations of Soviet people were raised in the spirit of Soviet war films that were blockbusters and propaganda films at the same time. Our movie is dealing with the fact that the most Nazi villains in soviet war movies were played by Baltic actors. It’s ironical fact that the reasons why the Baltic actors were chosen to play the Nazi roles in that time were mostly physiognomic, but the consequences were political. The paradox is that personifying stereotypic Nazi villains in Soviet films these actors encouraged and uphold the stereotype that Baltic people were Nazi sympathisers.

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The Heir to Genghis Khan / Storm over Asia (1928) [2012] [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 22, 2015

The Heir to Genghis Khan (1928) [2012]
A Film by Vsevolod Pudovkin
DVD9 + DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 4:3 | 01:43:27 | 7,36 Gb + 3,66 Gb
Disc 1: Score AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps with Russian intertitles and English subs + Extras
Disc 2: Score AC3 2.0 @ 256 Kbps with English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese subs
Genre: Drama, War

In 1918 a simple Mongol herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the occupying army. However he is captured when the army tries to requisition cattle from the herdsmen at the same time as the commandant meets with the reincarnated Grand Lama. After being shot, the army discovers an amulet that suggests he was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. They find him still alive, so the army restores his health and plans to use him as the head of a Mongolian puppet regime.

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BBC - Nuclear Secrets: Set One (2007) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at July 16, 2019

At present the total nuclear arsenal of the world is no less than 27,000 nuclear warheads. Nine countries in the world (probably) have nuclear weapons and a dozen more have access to the resources and technology needed to produce such a weapon.

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BBC - Nuclear Secrets: Set One (2007) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 5, 2016

At present the total nuclear arsenal of the world is no less than 27,000 nuclear warheads. Nine countries in the world (probably) have nuclear weapons and a dozen more have access to the resources and technology needed to produce such a weapon. Nuclear Secrets is a series of spy thrillers exploring the key turning-points in the race for nuclear supremacy.
Despite being an ally during World War II, the Soviet Union launched an all-out espionage effort to uncover the military and defense secrets of the United States and Britain in the 1940s.

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Discovery Channel - Cold War Submarine Adventures: K-19 Doomsday Submarine (2002) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 21, 2020

The true story of the disastrous first combat patrol of the Hotel Class submarine K-19, the Soviet Union's first atomic-powered nuclear missile submarine. Story was later made into a movie starring Harrison Ford, but this is a real-life documentary on K-19 including rare footage, interviews, and computer simulated footage.

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Soyuzkinozhurnal - In the Name of Lenin (1932) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Feb. 24, 2020

In the Name of Lenin is a 14 minute single subject ‘short’ (rather than a newsreel) produced by Soyuzkinozhurnal in 1932. It was directed by Mikhail Slutskii, a member of the new ‘Stalinist’ generation of film-makers, who had only recently graduated from film school in Moscow. Holding a place in history as (probably) the third sound documentary completed in the Soviet Union – after the much more readily available Enthusiasm (Vertov, 1931) and KSHE (Shub, 1932) – this short has rarely been seen (either within the ‘soviet bloc’ or outside) until now.

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PBS - Eisenhowers Secret War (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Oct. 17, 2017

The years from 1950 to 1961 were the most perilous era in world history. Two nations - the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. - armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world - struggled for supremacy on the world stage. In the U.S., Dwight David Eisenhower, standing at the center of this struggle, made certain the two nations did not engulf the world in mutually assured destruction. This two-part series, Eisenhower's Secret War, documents the military strategy, political decisions and foreign policy of Eisenhower from 1950, when he was named Commander of NATO, to the end of his Presidency in 1961.

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