The Unknown War: Set 1

War Documentary hosted by Burt Lancaster, published by Sovinfilm in 1978 - English narration



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A landmark television series, detailing the drama of the World War II Eastern front from the Soviet perspective
The Unknown War is a landmark television documentary series about the Soviet struggle against - and ultimate victory over - the Nazi war machine. Hosted and narrated by Academy Award-winner Burt Lancaster, this sprawling series features rare and stunning footage recorded by Soviet camera crews on the front lines, most of it unseen since its original broadcast 30 years ago. From the June 22, 1941, invasion of the Soviet Union to the Russians' victorious march into Berlin in 1945, the devastating battles in the air, at sea and on land are detailed with astonishing images. These stories of heroism, savagery and suffering from what the Russians call "The Great Patriotic War" will shed new light on the Red Army's massive contribution to the Allies' defeat of Hitler in World War II. A Soviet-American collaboration produced in 1978 - during the throes of the Cold War - the 20-part saga was pulled from the air in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Its reemergence should be heralded as an essential addition to the recorded history of World War II.
Film footage from Soviet archives comprises a major portion of the series, supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives.
Academy Award Winner Burt Lancaster spent three weeks in eight cities in Russia, for location filming.
Executive producer and director Isaac Kleinerman was film editor of the classic documentary series "Victory at Sea" and producer of "The Twentieth Century" and "The 21st Century" for CBS-TV. He is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner.
Script consultant Harrison Salisbury is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, historian and one of the foremost authorities on Russian affairs. Affiliated with the New York Times for almost 30 years and serving as its Moscow correspondent from 1949 to 1954. A companion book, "The Unknown War," written by Salisbury, was originally published 1978.

Script adaptation: Rod McKuen and Fred Weiner ; Produced by SOVINFILM and the Central Studio of Documentary Films, Moscow for Bregin Film Corp., A.G. and Air Time International

2)  The Battle for Moscow
On October 8, 1941, Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, broadcast from Berlin that Moscow had fallen. Hitler's troops, he said, could see the Kremlin towers from their front lines; another four or five days and the Nazi flag would fly over the Kremlin. The Germans believed these reports, and so did many others - after all, Hitler had conquered western Europe, he had blitzed London. But in an area some 60 miles from the Kremlin, the Nazi blitzkrieg came to an end. In the Moscow suburbs, the Red Army and hundreds of thousands of ordinary men, women and children threw up barriers that the Nazi tanks could not crack. In early December, the Red Army counterattacked. They pushed Hitler's armies as far back as 125 miles from Moscow. It was the first time in the Second World War that the mighty Nazi Wehrmacht was halted.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 1 941 Kbps
Video Resolution: 700x544
Display Aspect Ratio: 1.287
Frames Per Second: 29.970 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 49 min
Number Of Parts: 10
Part Size: 749 MB - 761 MB
Source: DVD
Encoded by: DocFreak08

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