"Stalingrad" Documentary Series on HDNet

[Mr. Football]

For anyone out there who receives the HDNet Hi-Def channel, I highly recommend the International Emmy award-winning "Stalingrad" documentary series. It's playing on HDNet in three parts: The Attack, The Kessel, the Doom.

Filmed entirely in HD, this German produced documentary is utterly superb. It takes you through the hell that was Stalingrad, through previously unreleased film footage, interviews with Russian and German troops still living, as well as current scenes from modern Volgograd (Stalingrad)

Here's more info, you can even watch some of it online:
http://www.broadview.tv/video/The%20Attack_L.wmv

Here's the site for the film:
http://www.broadview.tv/sites/en_stalin ... vision.php

[Sgt. Stryker]

I think the HD label for B&W WWII footage from 1942-43 is bogus.
However, I will agree that this might be the definitive series about the Battle for Stalingrad.
What's amazing is that all the German Military leaders didn't organize and overthrow Hitler after the annihilation of the 6th Army. This crushing defeat caused by Hitler's false ego and complete epititude as a military strategist should have clearly been an omen of things to come for EVERY German.
BTW, the actual combat footage from the Battle is sparse. Most of what you will see is either scenes from other Eastern front campaigns, or Soviet propaganda filmed "after the fact'.
Stryker

[Sniper73]

Is this out on DVD yet?


-Bill

[Mr. Football]

Apparently, it's being included as an extra-DVD with new German editions of the now famous 1993 production "Stalingrad" according to this German reviewer on IMDB. Here's what he said:

From what I know, this documentary is available in German only and is contained as an extra DVD to the 1993 movie "Stalingrad" by Joseph Vilsmair.

btw, the documentary is available in English.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376899/