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- A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
- A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
- After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for the spaceflight.
- Farewell Comrades paints a portrait of the Soviet Union's decline from the inside, covering the period from 1975 to 1991.
- On the Elbrus glacier in the last year, climbers suddenly began to find the remains of Soviet soldiers. How they were able to reach almost the top of Elbrus without any climbing equipment, one can only guess. It was as if some unknown force had brought a whole company here straight from the plain. But who are these people? What was this battle? Historical sources claim that there were no serious hostilities in these particular places during the war years. Even the initial results of the investigation undertaken by local climbers and mine rescuers of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were shocking: perhaps one of the secrets of the Great Patriotic War rested here for 70 years - why Hitler's carefully worked out plan "Edelweiss" to capture the Caucasus could fail. It is known that it was on Elbrus that the famous detachment of German mountain rangers "Edelweiss" stopped, which was tasked with immediately overcoming the Main Caucasian Range, reaching the rear of the Soviet troops and starting a sabotage war there. There were no our units in the Elbrus region. It was a strategic miscalculation of our command, which the Germans took advantage of. However, the Nazis also made a gross military mistake. Instead of following Hitler's order - without slowing down, to follow the Black Sea and the oil-bearing regions of the Caucasus - they ... went to conquer the highest peak in Europe to hoist the banner of the Reich. It was Elbrus that the Nazi ideologists considered the sacred mountain of the Aryans, in which the entrance to the legendary Shambhala is hidden. But in doing so, the German mountain special forces revealed themselves. The effect of surprise was lost. A categorical order came from Moscow to destroy the Edelweiss at any cost, but there was no one to do it. In the fire order, a company was formed from ... cavalry and rear. Lieutenant Grigoryants, who until recently was a ladies' hairdresser, became its commander. It was these people who, at the cost of their lives, stopped the elite mountain units of the Wehrmacht. To restore the picture of events, the film crew, together with the Elbrus detachment of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, for the first time undertook a purposeful mountain expedition to the places of these unknown battles. The authors of the film discovered the remains of the soldiers of this heroic company, which were later buried with full military honors, and also visited Germany, where they managed to find two veterans of the mountain special forces of the Wehrmacht who participated in this campaign.
- 201937m5.9 (14)TV Episode
- In June 1941, the German army invades the USSR. Following behind are the Einsatzgruppen, 3000 men grouped into four "intervention groups" each given a designated geographical region, sent to exterminate Jews and enemies of the Reich.
- In the 1980s, three people dominated the propaganda agenda in the Cold War. The first is US President Ronald Reagan, a staunch anti-Communist who would do anything to denounce it while putting the US in a positive light. He wanted to look tough, especially through a military build-up since he believed the Soviets far out-muscled the Americans militarily. But his propaganda changed as world issues around him changed, most specifically Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov inviting Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith to the Soviet Union for a goodwill visit, and the Soviet military shooting down a commercial jet in Soviet airspace. The second is Polish national Pope John Paul II. His succession to Pope was at a tenuous time in Poland. But his anti-Communist stance allowed Lech Walesa and Solidarity to rise in Poland. However, the Communists would not go down in Poland without a fight, which was led by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. And the third is Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Despite being a Communist, his growing up period during Stalin's reign shaped his view that Communism should be transparent, which was dubbed glasnost. Although Gorbachev was viewed with great esteem worldwide, he was viewed less so by the Soviet peoples who saw that the propaganda did not match their reality.
- 2011– 45m7.0 (8)TV EpisodeThe victory of WWII may have been an achievement between, among others, the Americans, run by their democratically elected government, and the Soviets, run by the Communists. It, however, marked the beginning of a global power struggle between the two factions, which would be better known as the Cold War. Because the Americans had the ultimate weapon of annihilation in the nuclear bomb, that power struggle was largely through public relation campaigns, in among other propaganda battlegrounds as the Italian election following the war, in Berlin as Stalin and the Soviets tried to seize it in its entirety, and more formally in war on the Korean peninsula. Official and unofficial propaganda campaigns also happened on the home front. In the US, much of it was through network television, whose shows depicted American family life as perfect. But the global situation brought about strong anti-Communist sentiments, which allowed the McCarthy Communist witch hunts to occur. On the Soviet side, Stalin did whatever he needed, including falsely accusing, imprisoning and murdering people, in order to show he was in control. Much of his propaganda campaign was in order to raise money for nuclear bomb research at the expense of the Soviet peoples. But Stalin's death and the fact of the Soviets developing a nuclear bomb would change the face of the Cold War.
- Patrick Stewart investigates his father's extraordinary war career and discovers the shocking impact it had on his father's character.
- October 1941, Germany's Army Group Center is only some 25 km west of Moscow. The Russian winter, however, is only a few weeks away. With not enough soldiers or military equipment, the Soviet high command's only hope left is that the weather will save the capital. The battle ends in a bloody failure for the German Army, and it is forced to retreat.
- The Battle of Britain is over. The Luftwaffe has been driven to exhaustion, and Germany suffers its first major defeat. Even though Britain remains undefeated, it is so isolated that Hitler has no concerns about turning his attention East. Operation Barbarrossa, the German invasion of the USSR, takes the Soviets completely by surprise and the Red Army suffers terrible casualties.
- After the failure to take both Moscow and Leningrad, Hitler sets his sights on the oil fields in the Caucasus. If captured, the Red Army will lose 70%-90% of all its oil resources. Therefore, the famous city on the Volga, Stalingrad, must be "held at all costs." The German General Staff thinks taking the city will be a matter of a few weeks, but events steadily turn against the Germans.
- Leningrad, a vital and large Baltic sea port, is facing the entire weight of Army Group North. The Soviets have no reserves to spare as the Battle of Moscow is about to begin. Wilhelm von Leeb's Army Group North fails to take Leningrad, but begins a horrible siege that will last 872 days, in which over a million civilians will die of starvation and disease.
- After the swift success at Smolensk, Hitler has diverted the bulk of Heinz Guderian's panzers down to the South, so as to capture the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, considered more important than Moscow in Hitler's mind. It begins a gigantic clash and turns out to be the biggest military encirclement in history.
- Erich von Manstein's soldiers have trapped a massive Soviet force in Crimea, but the doomed troops have no intentions of surrendering, obeying Stalin's brutal "Not A Step Back" order. Manstein assembles the greatest concentration of artillery in history, which includes the world's biggest railway-gun nicknamed "Dora," and for eight months Soviets troops are savagely bombarded.
- The capture of Rzhev, the city that connects all railroads in Western Russia, is imperative. It will cost the lives of some 3 million Soviet soldiers and 500 000 German soldiers. It will take the Soviets a total of 3 years to throw the Germans firmly out of the city. These bloodbaths will become known by the veterans and historians as "The Rzhev Meat-Grinder."
- The Nazis invade the oil rich Caucasus to cut off this critical source of fuel to the Soviets. Standing in the way is Staligrad. Without realizing the strategic error they are making the Nazis reduce the city to rubble through air and artillery bombardment. The rubble serves as an ideal environment for an extended urban battle where the vaunted Blitzkrieg is useless. The error costs the Nazis dearly in men and materiel which the Nazis need for the Battle of Moscow and time the Soviet's use to rearm. Worst, The Nazis fail in their objective to capture the Caucuses.