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After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

During the height of World War II, a Soviet unit's last surviving sniper is sent on a suicide mission to break a German stronghold in order to save his fellow soldiers.

A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.

Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women's Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina's possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.

This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.

A popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.

In the Soviet airbase, occupied by the Nazis, a resistance group occurs, led by a modest girl Anna Morozova. For each victory (important, albeit small on a scale of the war) they have to pay a heavy price.

The Red Army Major Toporkov, having escaped from the prisoners camp, gets in the partisan unit with the request of the prisoners: the uprising is being prepared in the camp, weapons are needed. The commander sends a convoy with arms, but there may be a traitor within the unit.

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.

Destruction of cities and villages. Victims of German bomber raids. The fighting of the Soviet Army.

German commanders discover the efficiency of gassing prisoners, and Auschwitz transforms from a small backwater camp for those resisting the Nazi occupation of Poland to a large scale extermination camp for Jews.

The rise of the Red Army, mobilization of Soviet production, the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet partisans, and the Battle of Kursk.

We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of one of the Second World War's most harrowing episodes - the 890-day siege of the Soviet Union's second city Leningrad which was not liberated until January 1944.

As Hitler's troops advance, occupants in Ukraine, Belarus and Poland take the brunt of the occupying forces cruelty; and the first concentration camps are created.

The Red Army develops strength and Hitler's Spring Offensive is stopped at Stalingrad; and in the largest ghetto the inhabitants fight back in the Warsaw Uprising.

In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Their attack on the Soviet Union having failed, the German Army suffers a series of counter-offensives on the Eastern Front. Hitler's constant orders to stand ground backfire, and the Wehrmacht's losses are huge as the Soviets advance West.

At the height of his power, Hitler embarks on a genocidal war of conquest, which threatens the future of the continent and the lives of tens of millions of European Jews.

Its 1944, and as the Allied forces take over the West and Nazis retreat in the East, Hitler orders his country to its ruin from his underground bunker.

Explore how the Axis Powers' ruthless, brutal occupation and exploitation of other countries contributed to their demise.