Discovery Channel - Battlefield Series 1 (1994) Part 4 The Battle of Stalingrad

A comprehensive documentary series about the key battles of World War Two. This sweeping series offers detailed accounts of the key battles, combining extensive use of archival footage with full color 3D animation and a compelling and vivid narrative, complete with main weapon systems used and portraits of the principal leaders and commanders. Strategy and tactics are described in detail with excellent graphics, providing a fascinating analysis of the forces in conflict. A review of the political and military situation prior to battle and an examination of the weaponry and combat-readiness of the men are followed by original archive footage of important phases of the battle, supplemented by Situation Reports and finished off with a summary. Dramatic use of 3-D computer graphics and actual battle footage transport the viewer directly in the thick of the fight. Battlefield is a series that chronicles the decisive events and critical battles that shaped history. Archival footage from several sources includes film from the Moscow central military archives. Watch rare archival footage from vaults around the world!

Part 4 The Battle of Stalingrad

The annihilation of an entire army amidst the charred and frozen ruins of Stalingrad was catastrophe for Nazi arms. Thereafter, the colossus of the Red Army was never to lose the initiative in the East. The Battle of Stalingrad was the decisive turning point of World War II. Although not originally a primary objective of Hitler's 1942 offensive, the city quickly became the focus of his entire campaign. As the battle developed, both Hitler and Stalin became locked in a contest of wills, and Stalingrad, a place of horrors. Through broken streets and fire blackened buildings men fought room by room. In damp, rat infested basements the wounded lay, untended with the dying and the dead. With winter came the last act in the drama, the Soviet counter-offensive, the destruction of the Romanian, Hungarian and Italian Armies and the encirclement of the mighty German 6th Army.

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