The Battle of Stalingrad ended. The Soviet Army is preparing a large-scale Belarusian strategic offensive operation codenamed "Bagration". A week before the start of the operation, it becomes known that the Germans have mined all the approaches to the city of N. Roads, bridges, forests are mined. They have created entire minefields. The city itself is totally mined. Civilians may suffer. An experienced scout Tishkov is called to the army headquarters. Fyodor Tishkov, a former circus performer who once performed with power numbers, receives a new task.
Explore the true stories of America's covert operations told firsthand by the agents who lived it, while getting unprecedented access to the riveting and secret world of espionage.
Future Weapons, sometimes also written as FutureWeapons and Futureweapons, is a television series that premiered on April 19, 2006 on the Discovery Channel. Host Richard "Mack" Machowicz, a former Navy SEAL, reviews and demonstrates the latest modern weaponry and military technology. The program is currently broadcast on the Discovery Channel and Military Channel.
Between 1941 and 1945 around 30,000 French citizens voluntarily joined the German army and engaged in terrible war crimes in central and eastern Europe. This documentary explores a little-known chapter in the story of the second world war and France’s collaboration with Nazi Germany.
The Nazi era from 1993 to 1945 is illustrated through archived material, with insights and anecdotes provided by world-leading experts and commentators.
The film is based on real events that took place in Samara - the counter-revolutionary conspiracy of 1921. The Samara GubChK brilliantly exposes the counter-revolutionary bandit conspiracy against the Soviet government. The main characters are real people. Levin, the chairman of the Cheka, was originally named Byrne and was later repressed in the 1930s.
From Idris Elba, whose grandfather fought in WW2, this landmark series reveals the untold stories of soldiers of color in the war. By mixing war sequences with character portraits, this series restores the role of these soldiers and their units to their rightful place in the narrative of WW2 and reveals how these heroes inspired Civil Rights Movements in America and across the world.
The early life story of Veteran Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey and its first President, supreme commander of Turkish War of Independence, and revolutionary statesman.
The day before Almedal Week begins, Minister of Business Affairs David Ehrling receives a call from Prime Minister Elvira Kropp. She explains that she intends to resign and that in connection with a press conference she wants to "point out" David as a possible successor. David will stop at nothing to become Prime Minister. But is it a price worth paying?
Empire is a unique programme that reports on and debates global powers on behalf of an international citizen. It does so in a way whereby it questions those geopolitical, geoeconomic, corporate, and other forms of power that influence citizens across borders. Many of those are not held accountable by any one government or any one nation, and so looking at the world as the global village it has become - with its integrated societies - we try to answer the questions on the minds of many of our viewers: why and how does global power act, react? And how does it throw its weight around?
How Vladimir Putin has used his experience as a spy to create and lead modern Russia: arrogance, anger and betrayal; military interventions, cyber-attacks and political assassinations.
He's a nobleman, and she's a peasant serf.… They weren't meant to be together. Perhaps this is how this love story would have ended if it hadn't been for the war. Napoleon invaded the borders of the Russian Empire, and this day changed the usual way of life and class prejudices. The world will never be the same again. War is writing a new love story.
An autobiographical account that is also the history of Spain during the dark years of the first half of the twentieth century. Spanish writer Arturo Barea (1897-1957) narrates his childhood in Madrid, his harsh experiences in Morocco during the Rif War and his political commitment to the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War.