Operation Barbarossa - the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. German officers question Soviet prisoners. German chiefs confer. German troops advance to find retreating Soviet Armies. German bombers and fighter aircraft in flight. Aerial views from German aircraft as they strafe Soviet positions. Gun camera footage from German fighter aircraft firing on Soviet positions. Smoke rises after aerial bombing by the Germans. A German aircraft strafes a Russian railroad train. Smoke rises from a wrecked train. View of German Luftwaffe pilot inside cockpit of a light bomber aircraft.
Soviet civilians in a factory in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet men and women work at machines inside the factory. Water being poured over a machine. Women work on various machines.
Soviet civilians at a ceremony in the Soviet Union during World War II. Soviet officials and collective farm workers seated inside a room for the ceremony. Soviet women farm workers being presented mementos. Other collective farm workers receive mementos.
A wrecked German aircraft in the Soviet Union during World War II. Civilians gathered on a street. Traffic moves in the background. The civilians look at a downed German aircraft on the street. Interiors of the aircraft. Bombs and shells recovered from the aircraft. A soldier picks up a shell and shows it to the civilians. Wreckage of the German aircraft with people gathered around it.
Officers are awarded medals in the Soviet Union during World War II. Interior of an office. A Russian Government official awards medals to the officers. The officers shake hands with the official and receive the medals.
Opening scene shows a Soviet gun boat underway patrolling waters near the Soviet Union during World War 2. Closeups of several crew members. Two in the stern of the boat stand near a collection of depth charges. An officer peer through binoculars.