The Battle of Stalingrad on DVD

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For anyone who might be interested, this just released from International Historic Films, "The Battle of Stalingrad" the 1949-1950 Soviet produced 2 part series on DVD..... http://www.ihffilm.com/22937.html

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* Looks interesting. * ... Thanks for sharing this Scott. I always liked stuff about the Eastern Front.
[+] > Like Cross of Iron , and a foreign film I seen at the local theater about 10-yrs. ago , Stalingrad , for instance. *



Mitch v MG

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I ordered this on Amazon back in Nov.

The Eastern Front experienced the viciousness of war on a scale of unimaginable horror and brutality. The bloodiest and most savage fighting took place in Stalingrad between August 1942 and February 1943. Stalin's city on the Volga had military significance for Hitler. It carried the name of his enemy and therefore had to be destroyed. The ensuing battle sealed the fates of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians and marked the turning point of World War 11. It was the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. In their 3 part 16:9 HDTV, documentary filmmakers Sebastian Dehnhardt, Christian Deick and Jorg Mullner reveal new historical facts while touching the emotions of their audience with new, moving eyewitness accounts and confessions from some of the last survivors.

Filmed from both the German and Russian perspective, the series contains footage shot by soldiers during the siege. The Russian achives opened their doors to the filmmakers, granting them exclusive access to previously unreleased material. The series also contains digitally restored archive film as well as 3-D animation to recreate the city of Stalingrad and plot the course of its destruction.

Originally broadcast in both Germany and Russia in slightly truncated editions, this Special Edition DVD contains all three Stalingrad documentaries including The ATTACK (54 min.), THE KESSEL (56 min.) and THE DOOM (55 min.) in their original uncut forms and a wealth of extra supplementary materials.

[ostketten]

I ordered this on Amazon back in Nov.

Yep, I've had that one in my DVD library for some time now, it's one of the better documentaries on the battle. I expect that the just released 1949-1950 Soviet movie mentioned in the beginning of this thread will be good, but like all purely Soviet produced films it will likely be heavily laced with propaganda overtones, to a certain extent I think it's more or less expected given the source, but it should be worth a look for anyone who has a more than a casual interest in the battle