Maria Slavinskaya

About the heroic battle of Stalingrad during the Great Patriotic War. The prologue gives a general picture of the current situation on the fronts by the summer of 1942 - the battles at the Barents Sea, near Leningrad, in Belarus, Ukraine, and Sevastopol. Stalingrad is shown at all stages of the heroic battle. Historical documents from 1942-43 tell about the mass heroism of our soldiers, about the help of the whole country to Stalingrad during the great battle.

A film about the creation of the first artificial satellites in the USSR and their launch into Earth’s orbit.

An enthralling film about the life of emperor penguins in the South Pole. Narrated by Sergey Obraztsov, the head of the Moscow Puppet Theater.

A tribute to Soviet cameraman Vladimir Sushchinsky, killed in the liberation of Breslau in 1945, featuring his funeral and final footage by fallen colleagues. The film honors the 252 front-line cameramen of the Central Documentary Film Studio, one in five of whom died while recording the war, leaving behind millions of meters of film and hundreds of newsreels as a lasting record of the conflict.

The unique film footage collected in this film has preserved some of the moments of Vladimir Lenin's life.