Season 1 (2010)

Operation Barbarossa
6.0

March 29, 2010 • 50m

Archive film, computer-generated imagery and innovative reconstructions tell the Red Army's story of their bloody defeat to Nazi G...Read more

The Battle of Moscow
6.0

April 5, 2010 • 50m

From the very first days of the war the USSR capitol had been preparing its defense. Institutions and plants, embassies and minis...Read more

The Siege of Leningrad
6.0

April 12, 2010 • 50m

The takeover of Leningrad was of strategic importance for the German Command. On the 8th of September 1941 the Germans reached Lak...Read more

Stalingrad
8.0

April 19, 2010 • 50m

On the 28th of June 1943 German troops launched Case Blue. They dashed towards Voronezh, Stalingrad, and Rostov-on-Don. The insuff...Read more

The Battle of Kursk
6.0

April 26, 2010 • 50m

It was April 1943. The frontline froze, but the Soviet Command was already designing plans for the Summer, paying special attentio...Read more

Operation Bagration
6.0

May 4, 2010 • 50m

Conditions of Army Group Center in Byelorussia seemed to be stable. Soviet attempts to go on the offensive near Vitebsk and Orsha ...Read more

Battle of Ukraine
6.0

May 5, 2010 • 50m

Troops from five fronts began a coordinated offensive from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov on a broad new front 1400 km in length. In...Read more

Battle of Berlin
6.0

May 6, 2010 • 50m

On the 31st of January 1945 the tankers of the 1st Byelorussian Front reached the Oder river near Kostrin and Frankfurt. Berlin, t...Read more

The Secret War
6.0

May 7, 2012 • 50m

Stalin’s USSR was a nation obsessed with secrecy and highly experienced in the skills of espionage. But despite establishing netwo...Read more

The War at Sea
6.0

May 9, 2012 • 50m

The Soviet navy fought many different types of war, from coastal raids in the Black Sea, to convoy escorts in the Arctic Ocean and...Read more

The Air War
6.0

May 9, 2012 • 50m

The Soviet Air Force was nearly wiped out in the first days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. But thanks to the courage ...Read more

The Battle for Germany
6.0

May 11, 2012 • 50m

In January 1945, across the snow-covered plains of Poland, the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against the enemy that wo...Read more

War Against Japan
5.0

May 12, 2012 • 50m

In August 1945 the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against Japanese-occupied Manchuria. It came on the same day that Jap...Read more

The Rzhev ‘Meat-Grinder’
6.0

May 5, 2014 • 50m

The German conquests of 1941 left Hitler’s troops perilously close to the Soviet capital, Moscow. Around Rzhev terrible fighting r...Read more

The Battle of Kiev
6.0

May 6, 2014 • 50m

As September ended, the Germans found the Dnieper line impossible to hold as the Soviet bridgeheads grew and important Dnieper tow...Read more

The Defence of Sevastopol
6.0

May 7, 2014 • 50m

Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR ran into some its fiercest resistance at the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Sevastopol, where So...Read more

The Battle of the Caucasus
0.0

January 1, 1970 • 50m

In 1942, Hitler launched his great summer offensive against the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus. If he could seize control of th...Read more

The Partisan War
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January 1, 1970 • 50m

In 1941 German armed forces overran vast swathes of Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. But it was not long before the local populati...Read more