Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union during World War 2. View from inside a German Army vehicle rolling down a road, as Soviet soldiers with arms raised in surrender appeal to be taken as prisoners of war. Soviet prisoners march on a road. Bombed out buildings of Stalingrad, Russia. Aerial view of destroyed Russian building. German soldiers search a civilian at gunpoint. Views of two dead Russian civilians.
Battle of Stalingrad, Soviet Union during World War II. View of Stalingrad and Volga River in Russia in the background. Interiors of a building. Soviet troops march and advance on field during Battle of Stalingrad. Animated map of Yugoslavia. Map shows a break up. A moving train.
German diplomat Friedrich Werner von Schulenberg, of Nazi Germany, and Vyacheslav Molotov, of the Soviet Union meet together in Moscow, Russia, to sign the German-Soviet Border and Commercial Agreement. View of the two men and other representatives from each country at the signing ceremony. Narrator indicates that the agreement document covers expanded trade and commerce between the countries, establishes the northern border, and covers repatriation of Germans from republics including Lithuania and Estonia. View of the German and Soviet leaders each signing the document. Wax seals are added and a close-up of the signature page of the agreement is shown. (The Agreement also included the third set of secret protocols of the Hitler-Stalin Act or German-Soviet Treaty of Nonaggression. It followed the German-Soviet Frontier Treaty, which was the second secret protocol. Despite the pact, Germany attacked the Soviet Union 6 months later.) (World War II period).
A film about the United States President Richard Nixon's visit to Asia and Europe. Exteriors of the Moscow State University (Ulitsa Kolmogorova, 1, Moscow, Russia, 119991). President Nixon's wife Pat Nixon visits Moscow State University. She meets students at the university. First Lady Pat Nixon with Mrs. Viktoria Brezhneva, wife of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, and Mrs. Lydia Gromyko watch a performance by students at the Bolshoi Theater School. First Lady Nixon speaks to young girls. Girl presents a doll to First Lady Pat Nixon. President Nixon and the First Lady watch a Bolshevik ballet performance of Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Artists perform ballet.
A map showing Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and the Ladoga lake in Russia during World War 2. In a forest, workers working on wood beside a truck. Workers cutting wood with a saw machine for lumber. The workers appear to include Soviet soldier prisoners of war (POW) and Soviet civilian slave laborers, including young boy child laborers. The workers are leveling slurry for road construction. Forced laborers using axes as mallets to put end grain lumber into the road construction. A woman uses a machine to spray the road. A steam roller is used to compact gravel and flatten the road. Two donkeys pull a carriage with soldiers while a soldier passes by in a motorcycle. A German Wehrmacht soldier smiles as he supervises. A sign displaying “Strassenwetterdienst” (Street Weather Service” in German) with Russian towns spelled in German writing. A Horch 901 military service car pulls over beside blooming trees as a soldier approaches the vehicle. The German soldier, wearing a Feldgendarmerie gorget, inspects some papers from the car. Trucks drive on a narrow, dilapidated road. A truck drives by construction site. Workers installing rebar for building construction supervised by soldiers. Building site with concrete forms. Finished concrete bunkers. A worker transfers mixed concrete from a wheelbarrow to a form using a spade. Workers arrange forms as a man pours concrete with a spade. Workers tamping concrete into forms. Men walk on a bridge made from ropes and wood. Men carrying wooden boxes on their backs follow a soldier. The soldier and the workers crouch as they walk past a sign “Achtung Feindeinsicht” (“Warning Enemy Observation” in German). Soldier carrying bricks to add to the wall his comrades are building. Soldier arranges bricks while building wall. Soldier picks up some excess bricks from the wall. Soldiers working on a brick structure. New gun turrets lined up behind concrete barricade as a soldier covers a gun with a black cloth. Soldiers working on a subterranean masonry structure in a field. Soldier on top of gun turret getting ready to aim.
Soviet Air Forces bi-winged aircraft flying in a star-shaped formation. Stalin talks with Russian pilots. “Russia is strong, he warns,” says the narrator. A group of Russian bombers in flight over the Red Square in Moscow. Soviet paratroopers jumping from Russian planes before WW2.