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10 MAIN Soviet movies about World War II, available FREE online - Russia Beyond. A still from ‘The Dawns Here Are Quiet’ (1972). Stanislav Rostotsky/Gorky Film Studio, 1972. Follow Russia...
- Boris Egorov
- Only Old Men Are Going Into Battle(1973), Leonid Bykov
- Officers(1971), Vladimir Rogovoy
- The Dawns Here Are Quiet(1972), Stanislav Rostotsky
- They Fought For Their Country(1975), Sergei Bondarchuk
- Fate of A Man(1959), Sergei Bondarchuk
- The Cranes Are Flying(1957), Mikhail Kalatozov
- Ballad of A Soldier(1959), Grigory Chukhrai
- Hot Snow(1972), Gabriel Yegiazarov
- The Alive and The Dead(1964), Alexander Stolper
- At War as at War(1969), Viktor Tregubovich
This picture about the everyday lives of Soviet fighter pilots won movie-goers’ hearts as soon as it hit the big screen, pulling in 44.3 million viewers. The story begins in the summer of 1943 ahead of the Battle of the Dnieper to liberate Ukraine from the German invaders, where the skies rumble to the sound of unending (and often unequal) clashes ...
The film tells about the fate of two comrades, whose paths diverge and re-converge years after the war. “There is such a profession — to defend the Motherland” is a phrase from the movie that has become a Russian idiom. This piercingly candid story about soldierly honor and friendship was a cinematictour de force, and caused a surge in applications...
1941, Karelia. Five women anti-aircraft gunners and their (male) commander are stationed in the rear. Although they are far from the front line, one of the gunners spots two German saboteurs in the forest, and their small detachment decides to capture the enemy. They lay an ambush, but things go badly wrong when it turns out that, instead of two Ge...
This sweeping movie epic, based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, is set in July 1942, when the Soviet Union was on the verge of defeat. The drained, defeated Soviet troops at Stalingrad are on the back foot, clinging to every single piece of turf. The tide will turn eventually, but not everyone will live to see the day. This 1975...
Another military drama from the master of epic Sergei Bondarchuk (whose credits also include a colossal screen adaptation ofWar and Peace), and another movie version of an eponymous novel by Sholokhov. The film is about a frontline driver who gets caught in an air raid, finds himself in German captivity, and ends up in a concentration camp. It was ...
Two lovebirds stroll around summertime Moscow and make plans for the future — until war rudely intervenes. The young woman remains in the city, while her beloved volunteers for the front. Will they ever see each other again? This heart-rending war drama is the only Soviet film to win a Golden Palm at Cannes, which even so was downplayed in the Sovi...
Young soldier Alyosha becomes a hero by blowing up two German tanks. The authorities intend to present him with an award, but before they do, Alyosha asks for six days’ leave to visit his mother. Since after the award, the front line will be waiting once more. The action takes the form of a classic road movie. The protagonist spends the entire film...
The film tells about a heroic and tragic clash during the blood-soaked Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 — the Kotelnikovo defensive operation. The action is centered around an anti-tank battery that is left isolated against the advancing columns of German tanks. Can it resist? The movie is considered to be Yegiazarov’s finest work and is included in th...
A movie adaptation of the eponymous novel by Konstantin Simonov, this is one of just a handful of war films based on a screenplay by a military journalist. The plot revolves around reporter Ivan Sentsov, who is on vacation in the south when war breaks out. Ivan immediately heads for the front line as a correspondent, where he witnesses the brutal e...
Last in the list is a film about the daily wartime existence of a combat vehicle crew, headed by an unblooded junior lieutenant straight out of military school. As the crew liberates Right-Bank Ukraine (west of the Dnieper River) from the German invaders, the junior lieutenant endures all the hardships of earning the respect of his subordinates. Th...
We’ve amassed a list of the quintessential war movies that helped look at WWII from a different perspective, through the eyes of heroes and traitors, fathers and sons.
Feb 24, 2023 · A year of Russia’s war in Ukraine: Haunting photos of tragedy. A selection of images attesting to the tragedies inflicted on the Ukrainian people. Natali Sevriukova is overcome with emotion...
Apr 19, 2022 · When images from Ukraine of abandoned Russian tanks tagged with the word “Wolverines” circulated in early April, movie buffs got it right away: Ukrainian fighters were consciously referencing...
May 13, 2022 · Shocking images showing the bodies of civilians scattered across Bucha, Ukraine, sparked international outrage and raised the urgency of ongoing investigations into alleged Russian war crimes.
Nov 29, 2016 · When Arthur Bondar came across the negatives of a Soviet war photographer, he realized he had stumbled upon an important cache of images of World War II that gave an intimate look at that...
