The Unknown War is an American 20-part series that documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
The show was produced and syndicated for international distribution by Air Time International, and the executive producer was Fred Weiner.
The footage was edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war, 22 June 1941, to the Soviet entry into Berlin in May 1945. Most of these films have never been seen outside this documentary series.
The series is hosted by Academy Award Winner Burt Lancaster, who spent three weeks in eight cities in the Soviet Union for location filming.
Film footage from Soviet archives comprises a major portion of the series, with other parts supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives.
The series also features exclusive interviews with Russian Commanders like Georgi Zhukov and Vasily Chuikov. Other interviews shot for the series included Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev and Averell Harriman, who was U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union during the war.
SouthFront will be publishing the entire series, part by part, on its website and official channel on Telegram.
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The first part, titled “June 22, 1941,” discusses the surprise invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany, the key events leading to the outbreak of the war and the international reaction. It especially highlights the U.S. sympathetic stance towards the Soviet Union from the get go.
Germany had some five million troops at the start of the invasion, codenamed Operation Barbarossa. The ultimate goal of the invasion was to repopulate the European part of Russia with Germans.
Hitler was impressed with the initial results of the invasion, which saw rapid advance by Nazi forces in its first days. But signs of staunch Soviet resistance emerged early, like in the Brest Fortress, where the defenders fought for a month.
This part of the series also covers Stalin’s historic address to the Soviet nation on July 3, 1941, in which he called for stopping the aggressor and starting a guerrilla war. In addition, it explores early Soviet success against the Germans in Yelnya and the efforts made to organize and arm the Red Army in the initial stage of what was later become known as “The Great Patriotic War.”
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a time when russia the us and europe were allies . russia had 27 million casualties .
how many did the bolsheviks murder of the russian christian population before the war even started???? hint…nearly double ww2 loses. imagine that…
many of those killed were criminals. now, how many millions americans did the us government killed? . imagine that…
russian orcs would be speaking german right now if usa hadn’t saved their sorry azzes!
the soviets destroyed 85% of axis forces you ignorant ape, zhukov said we defeated fascism and they will never forgive us for it, by they he meant the west and dickheads like you.
we should’ve let hitler conquer your sorry azzzes!
fuck off you gay
nato will finish the job that hitler started…russia will be destroyed…
nato? hahahahaaaaa your whole brain must consist of pure dogshit. is a laughable idiot and total moron like you really the best unit 8200 and hasbara can recruit actually? heheheh
lol shlomo hurenkind. russia alone destroyed 80% of whole nazi army. without russia, germans would completly finish the jew endlösung. so shlomo moronic braindead bastards like you should be much more thankful. heheheh
stalin was ready to surrender to hitler…until usa agreed to help…heheheh
cry harder 😢😭 nazi sympathizer.
ussr should have allied w germany to colonize americuntland–but hitlar stupid like my homo janitor willy europa last battle
i love this documentary, a great way to learn about the eastern front, i downloaded more a decade ago, unfortunately i could not get the spanish subtitles but it is not hard to understand so i enjoyed when i watched every chapter
a documentary ripe with british and us propaganda and jewish bolshevik bullshit. jewish tanny books and lgbq nonsense being burned, suddenly becomes ‘voltare and tolstoy’ is a gross blasphemy of reality. what the fuck is this bullshit doing being given life on southfront? hey why not explain how many christians the bolsheviks murdered before the war started. hint, the bolsheviks killed more of their own before ww2 than died during ww2.
russia that former nazi allie
thank you very much for posting these documentaries – they are excellent.