The Unknown War
Film Internet Archive 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z Rights unverified
From Wikipedia: The Unknown War (Russian: "Великая Отечественная Война" (The Great Patriotic War) or "Неизвестная война" (The Unknown War) is an American documentary television series. The 20-part series 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. Each episode is about 48 minutes long, similar in format to The World at War . 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 USSR for location filming. Film footage from Soviet archives comprises a major portion of the series, supplemented by film from both the United States and British archives. Appearing in exclusive interviews would be Russian Commanders like Georgi Zhukov and Vasily Chuikov . Other interviews shot for the series included Soviet Premier Leon
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- Creator
- Air Time International
- Date as recorded
- 1978-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Medium
- Film
- Hosting
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- Master
- 630 × 480 · 284.7 MB
- Digital objects
- 60 at Internet Archive
- Catalogued
- 2026-09-14
World War 2USSRNazi GermanyWar FootageGreat Patriotic War