We have just finished watching an excellent television series on YouTube about The Great Patriotic War.
It is a 2011 17-episode Russian World War II series created by Anna Grazhdan, Artem Drabkin, and Aleksey Isaev. An online version includes 18 episodes, ordered chronologically.
The series documents and recounts the most important, bloody, costly, and decisive events, battles, and personalities on the Eastern Front in World War II. Episodes generally last between 40 and 45 minutes. The version on You Tube is dubbed in English.
The production uses archival film, but also recreates scenes with a effective combination of computer graphics, sets, actual equipment and re-enactors. Maps are shown in Russian on screen, but are easy to understand. Photographs of German and Russian generals and documents are shown in sidebars to enhance credibility.
In contract to typical post-war cinema and propaganda, this production freely admits Soviet mistakes, failures and lapses in command, especially during Barbarossa. I was actually stunned at how honest it was. But the overall effect fills the viewer with awe at what they had to go through, how they overcame their initial losses and the courage with which they did it.
Highly-recommended for anyone with in interest in WWII Eastern Front.
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