

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
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.
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- English
- world war ii
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical13 Nov 1943
NetherlandsNL
- Physical12DVD29 Mar 2002
RussiaSU
- TheatricalДубляж – ЦСДФ, 1944 г.23 Feb 1944
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Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia was released on 13 November 1943.
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CinemaSerf
7/7/2025
For some reason, I always felt that this front of WWII was always the most horrendous, and this two-parter goes some way to poignantly illustrating that. Using a combination of animated maps and plenty of wartime newsreel, it takes us into the heart of the Soviet Union as the encroaching Nazis crushed all before them. It’s striking that though much of Western Europe was industrialised, the population facing this onsl…
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