TV series

The Unknown War

1978 · 1 season

A sober, archive-driven march through enormous battles and civilian suffering, instructive and heavy, with the weight of real footage.

Overview: A documentary television series of the Nazi-Soviet War, edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war, 22 June 1941, to the Soviet entry into Berlin in May 1945.
How it feels: Measured and needs your attention.
About: War, death, survival, power
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore. No sexual content or swearing.
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Genres: documentary, war & politics
Created by: Igor Gelein, Igor Grigoryev, Ilya Gutman, Tengiz Semenov
Written by: Edvin Polyanovskiy, Igor Itskov, Konstantin Slavin, Roman Karmen
Starring: Burt Lancaster
Cinematography: Yuriy Orlov
Length: 1 seasons, 20 episodes, 50 min each
Network: PBS
Country: Soviet Union, United States of America
Languages: English, Russian