Movies and TvShows featuring "nazis-invade-ussr" theme.

Generation War is a TV mini-series set in Nazi Germany during World War II. It follows the lives of five friends who are forced to confront the realities of war, including the rise of Nazism, the persecution of Jews, and the brutality of the Eastern Front. The series explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the moral dilemmas faced by ordinary people during a time of extreme violence and oppression.

In the midst of World War II, as Nazi forces invade the Soviet Union, a young man finds himself caught up in the midst of the conflict. With the fate of his country hanging in the balance, he must navigate the chaos of war and make difficult choices to survive.

A documentary television series of the Nazi-Soviet War, 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.

During World War II, a group of 28 Soviet soldiers led by General Ivan Panfilov bravely defends their country against the invading Nazi army. Despite being heavily outnumbered, they fight with courage and determination, showcasing the true spirit of heroism.

In 1941, a group of Soviet soldiers defend a fortress in Belarus against the Nazi invasion during World War II. They face brutal combat, infiltration attempts, and the horrors of war.

Set in 1941 during the Great Patriotic War, 'The Red Ghost' follows a group of Soviet partisans as they resist the Nazi invasion. The film focuses on their bravery and sacrifice in the face of danger, highlighting the struggles and hardships they endure in their fight against fascism.

During World War II, a railwayman is suspected of collaboration with the Nazis and is condemned to death. But when he crosses paths with a German soldier, he is forced to confront his own beliefs and make a difficult decision.

The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, is a BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the no-holds-barred war on both sides. It not only examines the war but also the terror inside the Soviet Union at the time due to the paranoia of Joseph Stalin - the revenge atrocities, the Great Purge of army officers, the near-lunacy orders, and the paranoia of being upstaged by others, especially Marshal Zhukov. The historical adviser is Ian Kershaw.

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Set during World War Two, this gripping drama tells the story of a Ukrainian village caught in the midst of the conflict. As Nazi forces invade the USSR, a large family struggles to survive amidst poverty and the threat of war. The film explores themes of survival, brotherhood, and the resilience of the human spirit.

Babi Yar. Context is a documentary film that explores the historical context and events surrounding the Babi Yar massacre in Kyiv, Ukraine during World War II. The film delves into the Nazi occupation, Ukrainian nationalism, and the atrocities committed against Jews and other civilians during this dark period of history.

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.

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.

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.

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.

The Immortal Garrison is set in June of 1941, at the outset of the Nazi invasion of Russia. A group of Soviet servicemen, languidly biding their time at the Brest fortress on the Polish border, are suddenly galvanized into action. All desires to return home to their wives and sweethearts are swept aside as the courageous garrison unites to thwart a common enemy. The siege of Brest has served as story material for countless Russian films: in lieu of contradictory evidence, Immortal Garrison must be adjudged the best of these films. For its American release, Immortal Garrison was double-featured with another Soviet production, The Mexican.

During the invasion of the USSR by the Nazis in 1941, a war correspondent joins the Red Army soldiers on the frontline and witnesses the harsh realities of war.

Once again, director Yulia Solnsteva directs a movie that her late husband Alexandre Dovchenko scripted but did not live long enough to shoot. In this wartime drama, the emphasis is on the heroics of both the civilians and the soldiers during times of severe stress in World War II. At the core of the action is one man in particular, whose sacrifices and heroics speak for a much larger group.

A 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

The film is based on the novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev "Vacation by Wound." The story of the few weeks that young lieutenant Volodya spent in Moscow in the summer of 1942 after treatment at the hospital. Directly from the Rzhev Front with a bandaged hand, in a bloodstained padded jacket and tattered boots, he goes on vacation to his mother in the capital. Here, at the height of the war, almost peaceful life is going on - lines for vodka and beer, restaurants for the aristocracy of nomenclature, parties, girls... It’s another month for Volodya to live an ordinary life in Moscow, in a peaceful city in which everything is alien to him.