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The Battle of Russia (1943) is the fifth film of Frank Capra 's Why We Fight documentary series. The longest film of the series, it has two parts. It was made in collaboration with Russian -born Anatole Litvak as primary director under Capra's supervision.
The Battle of Russia: Directed by Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak. With Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden, Alexander Edler von Daniels. Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- 1943-11-11
Battle of Moscow, battle fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union from September 30, 1941 to January 7, 1942, during World War II. It was the climax of Nazi Germany’s Operation Barbarossa, and it ended the Germans’ intention to capture Moscow, which ultimately doomed the Third Reich.
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Beginning in June 1941, this blitzkrieg attack on Russia and its leader Joseph Stalin would ultimately decide the Second World War.
Legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra oversaw this wartime documentary effort, which stitches together newsreel and archival film to explore relations between Russia and the United States.
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- Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Documentary, History, Drama, War
Over the course of the operation, over 3.8 million personnel of the Axis powers—the largest invasion force in the history of warfare —invaded the western Soviet Union, along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front, with 600,000 motor vehicles and over 600,000 horses for non-combat operations.
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