American troops move along streets of Rome cheered by Italian civilians after Liberation of Rome during World War II. Saint Peter’s Basilica as seen from the Via della Conciliazione. Italian carabinieri pass by on bridge. A speaker speaks to crowd at Piazza Venezia (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy). He is joined later by another man. Cheering Italians. Italian girl kisses and embraces an American soldier.
Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II.. Pope Pius XII speaks from balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica. Huge crowd fills at Saint Peter's Square.
Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II. Italian carabinieri in trucks in front of the Palace of Justice. Trucks drive off. A baby carriage in the center of the crowd. An American soldier picks up child from carriage. Cheering crowd on street. An American flag being waved. People around an American vehicle with a few American soldiers in it. The soldiers talk into a radio mike.
Italian civilians celebrate liberation of Rome during World War II. A walkie-talkie operator on a street. Troops of U.S. 85th Infantry Division march in a single file in the northwestern part of Rome as children watch. Italian crowd jamming a street. Few American vehicles move through the crowd.
Film based on reconstruction of Stalingrad, Soviet Union after World War II attack. Soviet bi-plane in flight over Stalingrad. Aerial views of city. Co-pilot of biplane uses a camera. Damaged buildings of city. Damage caused to Stalingrad showing destroyed buildings and monuments. Destroyed pillboxes. Wrecked equipment at Volga River banks.
Opening scene shows Russian soldiers in ruins of Stalingrad, with captured German combat films. A soldier hold up a film and looks at some of the images, upon which the scene changes to the captured German film, itself, showing German troops in the midst of destroyed and damaged Soviet buildings, during the Battle of Stalingrad, in World War 2. . A German field artillery piece fires, and black smoke rises from the area. A formation of German Messerschmitt Bf 109s is seen. Then bombs are shown dropping from a bomber (unseen). German Tiger tanks advance across a plain. German artillerymen look through binoculars. A periscopic binocular is on a tripod nearby. A German soldier, standing at a height, next to a smoke stack, observes huge fires burning in the distance. A German officer leads several hatless German soldiers. Scene switches to post-siege, as Soviet troops are dealing with aftermath. A mortuary team in protective clothing is disposing of the body of a fallen German soldier. A group of wounded Russian soldiers is being moved in a wagon, by medics. Civilians in Stalingrad read notices posted on a bulletin board. Soviet workmen probe rubble (perhaps for survivors). A buried shell explodes sending white smoke aloft. A destroyed anti-aircraft gun sits in rubble, with destroyed and damaged buildings in background. Skeletons of buildings are all that is left in some places. A hand written sign is posted addressed to "Mama!" (Addendum) Interestingly the narrator is speaking in Korean about the Soviet victory at Stalingrad, implying the source might be a Soviet-made propaganda film for ethnic Koreans.
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