Documentaries about German-Soviet War made in wartime

Documentary about Armenian miners and copper-smelting workers providing metal for the front lines during the first months of World War II.

A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.

Using footage taken by Soviet battlefront cameramen, this penetrating documentary about Russian life during World War II is narrated by Walter Huston and features the likes of Joseph Stalin and Marshal Timoshenko. Producers Lewis Milestone, Joris Ivens, and George L. George assembled the film in the U.S., though the advent of the Cold War kept it from being shown for years.

Stalingrad is a 1943 Soviet documentary. The film illustrates the famous battle of the Red Army with the Germans for Stalingrad.

Compiled from newsreel footage taken by uncredited Soviet cameramen, the film shows scenes of life in the Soviet Union during the Winter Campaign of 1941. Cossack troops and guerilla bands are seen in action, women behind the lines are shown catching fish and building tanks for the troops, civilians and soldiers together are seen pledging large portions of their wages back to the government as loans to fund the war, Nazi airmen and troops are captured and one is shown calling on his countrymen to surrender (which some do using "passes to admit the bearer" to sanctity in the Soviet Union which the Soviet army drops behind the enemy lines), the means of getting mail and reading matter to the front lines are examined, the Nazi destruction of historic buildings such as the homes of Tolstoy and Tschaikowsky are shown... to the front is shown

About the struggle of Soviet partisans with Nazi invaders during the Second World War. Partisans are fighting in various regions of the USSR, including the Caucasus. The film uses footage from German newsreels.

Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

Documentary about Armenian Generals of Soviet Army during World War II - Ivan Baghramian, Sergey Martirosyan, Ivan Isakov, Nver Safaryan etc.

Newsreel footage documents world history and politics from Russia in 1914 to the German invasion in 1941. The Russian Revolution led to the ascent of power by Vladimir Lenin, who promised a Communist utopia. Instead, the Russians were given massive upheavals in society and economy and in 1922, 114 revolutionaries were put on trial for crimes against the Soviet government. Lenin's death in January, 1924, led to a funeral attended by thousands and the takeover by Joseph Stalin. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt established diplomatic relations with the Soviets. German footage and newsreels chronicle the German invasion of Russia, from the Battle of Leningrad to the destruction of Kharkov to the Battle of Rostov on 22 November 1941. Further footage reveals the disaster of Lidice in occupied Czechoslovakia and the siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea. When the Russians finally drive the Germans out of Rostov, Iran becomes a focal point. With the assistance of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, British and U.S. ships can deliver supplies to the troops fighting the Nazis. Germany declares war on the United States in December 1941, Lend-Lease shipments travel directly to Russia through Vladivostok and Murmansk. Soviet ambassador Maxim Litvanoff, U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Lend-Lease administrator Edward Stettinius, T. V. Soong of China, and British ambassador Lord Halifax are seen sampling dehydrated foods to celebrate the anniversary of Lend-Lease. Time after time, the Russians defend a city then flee it, leaving the Germans to find everything destroyed, no loot left behind. The siege of Stalingrad is a horror, but the Russians finally drive away the Germans in February, 1943. This documentary makes plain in a way that succeeding reportage and history lessons did not, that the Russians suffered the bulk of the war and that the Allies could not have won without them.

Recounts the defeat of German troops near the city of Leningrad.

Describes the Russian attack against the Germans, which drove them away from the Dneiper river, and finally out of Ukraine.

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Göring and twenty other Nazi leaders.

A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.

Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.