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Movies on the Great Patriotic
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	Come and See [VHS] Buy used from: $11.00 What's war was like in Byelorussia 1943: people executing and people being executed. Makes "Saving Private Ryan" looking like "The Partridge Family". One of the best war movie ever.
	My Name Is Ivan [VHS] Buy used from: $2.50 Stark and deeply sad, the story of a kid doing spywork for the Red Army in Central Russia, circa 1944. Andrei Tarkovsky's debut. The final scene is still hauntingly intense
	Ballad of a Soldier [VHS] The poetic and simple story of a Russian Soviet on a four days leave to see his mother. Don't miss this one
	Kanal [VHS] Buy used from: $3.43 The desperate resistance of a group of Polish partisans during the Warsaw Uprising. Gives a new meaning to the word "brutal". Don't watch it if you're anxious or suffering from claustrophobia.
	Russian Front [VHS] Buy used from: $22.50 The best documentary set available on the subject of Russia's War. A must have, and Prof. Erickson narration is suprisingly well done. Buy it, NOW! It's an order...
	Stalingrad [VHS] Buy used from: $3.21 I'm supposed to like it, but I'm getting a bit tired of all these slick war movies trying to show that in war everyone is basically right (or wrong!). Mighty spectale, through
	Cross of Iron (1977) [VHS] Buy used from: $6.89 Mine is a minority view, but I prefer it to "Stalingrad". It less licked up, and far grimmer. The life of a German squad on the Taman Peninsula, 1943. Peckinpah's most underrated effort.
	Why We Fight - The Battle of Russia: The Nazi March Frozen [VHS] Buy used from: $3.33 Propaganda? Well, what war movie isn't? A nice directorial effort from Frank Capra, trying to explain to the American public what was goin' on in Russia during the war
	Russia's War - Blood Upon the Snow [VHS] Buy used from: $19.90 Interesting and well done, but anyone putting Henry Kissinger in a documentary about the Great Patriotic War must have some kind of sick sense of humor...
	Mein Krieg [VHS] Buy used from: $9.50 Documentary about the war recollections of six German soldiers. Not entirely succesful as a "portrait", but the images are great
	Battle of Stalingrad [VHS] Made for French Television in mid 60's, it's packed with interviews to survivors of the battle, including Rokossovky!
	Stalingrad: Dogs, do you want to live forever? [VHS] Buy new: $45.00 / Used from: $9.98 Early German movie, in some ways much more honest than the 1993 version. Of course, nearly all the German soldiers aren't even slightly Nazi :)
	Wwii Battle Force: Panzer Battles [VHS] Buy used from: $2.64 Great actual footage from German and Soviet archives. To sum it up: tanks, tanks, tanks and tanks again. Great fun, pity for the shallow commentary
	The World At War - 9 Volume Gift Set [VHS] Buy used from: $26.66 Even if it's too superficial, the chapters devoted to the GPW ("Attack on Russia", "Stalingrad", "Red Star Army") are an excellent introduction to the topic. Great narration by Laurence Olivier
	Enemy at the Gates Buy used from: $0.89 As a movie is mildly entertaining, as history is terrible. It recycles most of the obvious clichees on the topic (including the mandatory human wave assaults and gun-toting commissars). Oh dear...
	South Park - Bigger, Longer & Uncut [VHS] Buy used from: $0.01 Great movie, has absolutely nothing to do with the Eastern Front. I put it as a remainder that some great flick on the GPW topic (i.e "Italiani Brava Gente") are still unavailable in VHS or DVD!