I really need to watch more Russian(USSR) films. I know NOTHING from there and this documentary instigates my quest for more knowledge.
Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpiece Solaris fuels my eagerness to maximum.

Side note: Where's the Mongolian cinema at?

Ano de Centenário de André Bazin: Repassando os filmes citados em Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? Filme #6
Esse é o meu favorito da série Why We Fight, não só por focar nos cercos de Leningrado e Stalingrado com os russos badasses motherfuckers, mas porque há a deliciosa ironia histórica em ver um filme do governo americano exaltando tanto a União Soviética stalinista.
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Perhaps the peak of Capra's World War II documentary exploits, THE BATTLE OF RUSSIA is an hour and a half deconstruction of the decisive war effort of the Eastern front. The information is so neatly packed in with the editing, the film almost feels alive with crackling energy. A triumphant look at the catastrophic failures of Germany's advances onto Moscow.

If the previous films were meant to demonstrate the dissolution of the Nazi invincibility myth, then this one utterly shatters it.

Mais um filme-propaganda produzido por Frank Capra como esforço de guerra pró-americanos. Dessa vez, deixando a Russia bem na fita ao mostrar a inacreditável resistência militar e civil soviética frente à invasão alemã, pouco tempo antes de virar a própria inimiga mortal durante a guerra fria. A montagem da sequência dos bombardeios nazistas em Leningrado, intercalados com a produção bélica em série russa, é um pequeno desbunde.

#TheBattleofRussia
وثائقي عن الطمع في روسيا و دخولها في الحرب العالمية الثانية

حروب امتدت الى 800 عام ، هدوئها يعني بأنها تطبخ على نار هادئه بين روسيا و المانيا
مساحة روسيا جعلت من القوى العظمى على مر العصور بأنه يطمع فيها الى حد الجنون و الانتحار و ابتدئت العرب العالمية الثانية و هيتلر ضرب اول مسمار في نعشة عندما قرر بأن يدخل روسيا
اعظم تضحية فعلها الروس هي عندما حرقو مزارعهم بأنفسها لأجل ان يواجهو الالمان ، الحكومة الروسية رزقها الله بشعب يقدس ارضه فأنتصرت

فيلم بروباغندا روسية بها جوانب لهم الحق في ان يتفاخرو بها و به بعض الجوانب الجيدة ايضا
للتنوية : هذا فيلم صنع قبل نهاية الحرب العلمية2 بسنتين
ملاحظة : الفيلم يحتوي على مشاهد بشعة جدا
8/10

As history it is probably the worst of the series. The sanitizing of Russia's past and even present (1943) was disgusting though understandable. But this is not a work of history, but of propaganda; and as propaganda it may be the best. Not only does it depict the Germans as a scourge that needs to be crushed, but one that can be crushed and indeed was already in decline.  It would have cheered me up at the time, though Poles, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Finns, and many others would probably have thrown things at the screen.

"The citizens of Leningrad have proved, that generals may win campaigns, but people win wars".

Frank Capra & Anatole Litvak used more time for detail explaining the Russian side of the war than any of the other entries of the Why We Fight war documentary series. You certainly get schooled. Not always as interesting, but it helps you understand the how large and different the battles where in the Soviet regions, than the ones going on in mainland Europe.

A weird document. It celebrates people's resilience fighting against Hitler's brand of fascism, but apologizes for Stalin's brand. Acts as a celebration of the Russian people and as an erasure of the genocides and slave labor perpetrated by Soviet leadership.

A grandiosa defesa russa aos cercos de Moscou, Leningrado e Stalingrado. Ao Frank Capra resta editar um vasto material de maneira didática e enfiar uma bandeira dos EUA aqui e outra ali pra parecer que eles foram importantes nessa história.

Mixing footage from classic movies like "Alexander Nevsky" with documentation of actual fighting, this movie tells the story of Russia's long-running defense against invaders, focusing largely on the then-current war Nazis. The story includes the ups and downs of the Nazi invasion, glorifying their scorched earth defense and ending triumphantly for the Russians. Considering the turnabout in American attitudes for Russian not long thereafter, the propagandistic sympathy engendered here is nothing short of remarkable.

Why we fight can usually be described using tired propaganda, but how we fight can be much more interesting—“The Battle of Russia” is the first film in the “Why We Fight” series to tell a really compelling story about one of the WWII campaigns (and it even got me to root for Russia)

Serinin önceki filmleri için aynı şeyi söyleyemeyeceğim fakat Capra burada hedefi on ikiden vuruyor. Ayrıca US Department of War elinden bu kadar iyi bir agitprop işi çıkması baya komik.

Hollywood'dan sanırım bir daha benzeri görülemeyecek şekilde Rus halkına ve mücadelesine adanmış bir destan.
Film Stalingrad savunması ile Nazi Almanya'sının geri püskürtülmeye başlandığı günlerde propoganda için hazırlanmış.
Barbarossa Harekatı ile başlayan Nazilerin Rusya savaşı ve Rus halkının savunması üzerine savaşın sıcak günlerinde dönemin kaydını tutacak iyi bir belge film olmuş.

-EUA em 1943 : A URSS tem um governo digno com seus cidadãos,e que vai ajudar o mundo a derrotar o fascismo. Viva o povo russo,viva a URSS.

-EUA após 1945 : A URSS come crianças no café da manhã. A CIA confirmou.

This movie is just so interesting. It's blatant USSR propaganda made by the US government, does not mention communism once I think and some of the things mentioned are quite interesting, knowing what we now know about the Soviet Union. But it's quite well made since it's Capra.

Frank Capra's propaganda work was definitely not his best work.

A very well made and pretty comprehensive wartime documentary. It is however propaganda and whilst it covers a large part of Russian culture and politics, communism is glaringly ommited. But as far as a one sided approach is taken it does seem to be very fair. Actually seems to odd to see such a positive American perspective on Russia which in a decade would be dominated by the Red Scare. Definitely worth a watch.