Season 1
(2010)
Cast
Episodes
Operation Barbarossa 6.0
March 29, 2010
Archive film, computer-generated imagery and innovative reconstructions tell the Red Army's story of their bloody defea…
The Battle of Moscow 6.0
April 5, 2010
From the very first days of the war the USSR capitol had been preparing its defense. Institutions and plants, embassie…
The Siege of Leningrad 6.0
April 12, 2010
The takeover of Leningrad was of strategic importance for the German Command. On the 8th of September 1941 the Germans …
Stalingrad 8.0
April 19, 2010
On the 28th of June 1943 German troops launched Case Blue. They dashed towards Voronezh, Stalingrad, and Rostov-on-Don.…
The Battle of Kursk 6.0
April 26, 2010
It was April 1943. The frontline froze, but the Soviet Command was already designing plans for the Summer, paying speci…
Operation Bagration 6.0
May 4, 2010
Conditions of Army Group Center in Byelorussia seemed to be stable. Soviet attempts to go on the offensive near Vitebsk…
Battle of Ukraine 6.0
May 5, 2010
Troops from five fronts began a coordinated offensive from Smolensk to the Sea of Azov on a broad new front 1400 km in …
Battle of Berlin 6.0
May 6, 2010
On the 31st of January 1945 the tankers of the 1st Byelorussian Front reached the Oder river near Kostrin and Frankfurt…
The Secret War 6.0
May 7, 2012
Stalin’s USSR was a nation obsessed with secrecy and highly experienced in the skills of espionage. But despite establi…
The War at Sea 6.0
May 9, 2012
The Soviet navy fought many different types of war, from coastal raids in the Black Sea, to convoy escorts in the Arcti…
The Air War 6.0
May 9, 2012
The Soviet Air Force was nearly wiped out in the first days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. But thanks to t…
The Battle for Germany 6.0
May 11, 2012
In January 1945, across the snow-covered plains of Poland, the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against the en…
War Against Japan 5.0
May 12, 2012
In August 1945 the Red Army launched an overwhelming assault against Japanese-occupied Manchuria. It came on the same d…
The Rzhev ‘Meat-Grinder’ 6.0
May 5, 2014
The German conquests of 1941 left Hitler’s troops perilously close to the Soviet capital, Moscow. Around Rzhev terrible…
The Battle of Kiev 6.0
May 6, 2014
As September ended, the Germans found the Dnieper line impossible to hold as the Soviet bridgeheads grew and important …
The Defence of Sevastopol 6.0
May 7, 2014
Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR ran into some its fiercest resistance at the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Sevastopo…
The Battle of the Caucasus 0.0
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In 1942, Hitler launched his great summer offensive against the Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus. If he could seize co…
The Partisan War 0.0
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In 1941 German armed forces overran vast swathes of Russia, Byelorussia and Ukraine. But it was not long before the loc…