Discovery Channel - Battlefield Series 4 (2000) Part 6 The Siege of Leningrad

The BATTLEFIELD series provides a thorough and comprehensive picture of the World War II. This sweeping documentary series offers up 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. Troop movements, arms deployed, motivation of key players, are all described in detail. In addition to the events, we can also learn about the motive for the outbreak of the battles and their consequences, along with the military and political situation of the age. Each battle is placed in the larger context of the global situation. Strategy and tactics are described in detail with excellent graphics, providing a fascinating analysis of the forces in conflict. Archival footage from several sources includes rare film from the Moscow archives. Battlefield is a series that chronicles the decisive events and critical battles that shaped history. Series provides a great opportunity to learn even more about the conflict, and the events of World War II that still have a great impact today.

Part 6 The Siege of Leningrad

This is the story of one of Second World War's most harrowing episodes. The 890 day siege of the Soviet Union's second city has come to epitomise the misery, suffering and savagery of the war on the Eastern Front. During this horrible period, the Germans hold the city in hand while the Russians isolate the city from the outside world. The conditions inside the city are hard to imagine. After Army Group North had surrounded the city, Leningrad's most important supply lines were cut off. This and constant bombardments, combined with running out of food supplies, meant that people were forced to ration hard. Those who did not obey this were shot. Day after day, the city is bombed, but the city is finally liberated by Soviet troops in 19th January 1944 - by that time 600,000 of its citizens had starved to death and 200,000 more had perished in the bombing. In this feature, we look back on those events and ask how on earth this was possible. How could the population last so long when supplies are hardly available? And how could the Germans resist for so long? We look at this pitch-black page in history, the struggle for Leningrad, including the battles for Luga, Narva, Pskov, and Ostrov, and how Germans were eventually forced into their long and costly retreat back toward Berlin.

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