Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Nov 13, 1943

1h 23m

★ 6.8

Overview

The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

Genres

Documentary

War

Production Companies

War Activities Committee of the Motion Pictures Industry

U.S. War Department

U.S. Army Special Service Division

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Cast

Narrator

Anthony Veiller

Self

Ion Antonescu

Alexander Nevsky

Nikolai Cherkasov

Self

Miklós Horthy

Self

Alfred Jodl

Self

King Boris III

Self

King Michael

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6.2

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5.8

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6.1

The Monuments Men

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10.0

Krigsseilerne – med æren i behold

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No overview available.

0.0

Cowboy Canteen

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6.0

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5.6

So Proudly We Hail

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0.0

Hatsumi

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5.6

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5.5

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6.1

The Negro Soldier

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6.0

4 and 20 Fit Girls

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5.6

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After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.

7.4

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4.5

Flukten fra Dakar

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4.9

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6.4

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