great patriotic war
37 movies and shows
Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
Thu, 26 Nov 2009
When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and brutal wartime strategy. Mulan loses dear friends to the enemy's blade as she rises to become one of her country's most valuable leaders — but can she win the war before her secret is exposed?
Road to Berlin
Thu, 07 May 2015
Summer, 1942. A young Russian communications officer sentenced to death flees execution and becomes brothers-in-arms with his guard against the Germans.
Father of a Soldier
Tue, 11 May 1965
During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in the last days of war finds the son...
Red Sky, Black Snow
Thu, 05 May 2005
The head of the prison camp is friends with the manager, the head of a criminal gang. An evacuated woman with a child arrives in the city, and the manager falls in love with her.
The Lark
Tue, 22 Dec 1964
Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.
Reading Book of Blockade
Wed, 09 Sep 2009
Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
The Girl from Leningrad
Mon, 19 May 1941
1939-1940 Finnish war. In the very first days, a group of female volunteers goes to the front. Young nurses and nurses in the hospital and on the front line selflessly help doctors to save the wounded soldiers, with weapons in their hands, take part in the fight against the enemy. In severe trials, the friendship and love of the film's characters is tempered and strengthened.
Blokada: Pulkovskiy meredian
Mon, 17 Nov 1975
Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...
The Beginning of the Legend
Mon, 11 Apr 1977
The film tells about the childhood of Yuri Gagarin, about that time of life, which, in his own words, played an important role in shaping his character: war, the occupation of their villages by the Germans, famine, the theft of the elder brother and sister to Germany, the expulsion of the Nazis from Smolensk, moving family in the city of Gzhatsk.
Reporting from the Line of Fire
Thu, 23 May 1985
I Loved You More than Life
Sun, 29 Dec 1985
Biopic about general Hazi Aslanov, who died fighting Germans in WW2.
I Have Done Everything I Could
Sat, 20 Dec 1986
Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.
The Battle of Canakkale
Wed, 18 Mar 2015
Pilot Captain Salih Ekrem is a young air officer and one of the first Ottoman pilots.
The Siege: Leningrad Metronome
Thu, 01 Dec 1977
A story about the tragic events in the life of besieged Leningrad from September 1941 to January 1943.
Wolves Pack
Mon, 24 Nov 1975
A story about few partisans hiding in the Belorussian woods and fighting German Army during WWII.
Blockade: The Luga Defense Line
Sun, 01 Dec 1974
In June 1941, the Extraordinary Defense Headquarters of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov forced units of the front to withdraw, and on July 9, Pskov was also abandoned. The battles in the Luga direction held back the enemy. The first attacks of the Germans, intending to cross the Luga line on the move, were repulsed with heavy losses for them.
Sea Cadet of Northern Fleet
Sun, 16 Dec 1973
The screen story of four teenagers, on whom the horrors of war had left an indelible mark. Their relatives’ deaths and their yearning for fighting the Nazis led them, one way or another, to a sea cadet school that had been opened on Solovetski Islands at the start of the war. This film tells of men’s friendship, the boys’ first baptism of fire, and the victory…
The Squad
Sat, 29 Dec 1984
Lithuania, 1941. German tanks and motorized columns broke into the border military town. Seven Soviet soldiers were cut off from the garrison. Without food and weapons, they went through the occupied territory to the location of the Red Army units.
Before Dawn
Sun, 01 Jan 1989
Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.