A Russian film with re-enacted portrayals of people from real life concerning the Russo-German campaign in the South Russia during WWII. Panoramic view of a battlefield in Crimea, with barb wired. Slave labor and German soldiers building fortifications for the Germans in the area. German officers inspect underground fortifications, trenches and gun emplacements in fortifications. The vast fortifications put up by the Germans with laborers working on these fortifications. German guns under camouflage netting. German officers talk in and around the fortifications. War map. Stalin in Kremlin with officer aide.
A Russian film with re-enacted portrayals of people from real life concerning the Russo-German campaign in the South Russia during WWII. Crest of waves at rocky beach hitting shoreline at Taman. Wake of ships at sea. Russian torpedo boat speeds through water. Russian navy craft as seen from air. Invasion armada of troop ships and landing ships at sea. Ships loaded with Russian troops. German planes bombing invasion crafts at sea. Fortifications fired. Ships return fire of land fortifications. Russian tanks disembark from landing ship at beach. Russian soldiers and Marines leave landing ship near beach. Russian troops barge beachhead. Joseph Stalin and officer aide in Kremlin. Russian troops wade through water hip high. Russian soldiers help wounded buddy through water. Russian troops fire from muddy field. Soldiers lie in muddy holes of beach waiting for chance to move forward and fire automatic rifles. Russian troops wade through water. Russian officers on post.
A Russian film with re-enacted portrayals of people from real life concerning the Russo-German campaign in the South Russia during WWII. A whistle sound. Trucks loaded with Russian troops move to the front. Russian tanks advance across shell marked and torn terrain. German officer speaks to other officer in an underground fortification. Russian tank broken down. Russian officer is shot and helped by Russian soldier. German planes drop bombs on Russian amphibious operations. Direct bomb hits on Russian boat loads of troops. Men flounder in water. Russian command post with Russian officers.
A Russian science fiction film depicts rocket research in Russia. A group of scientists attempts to launch a rocket. A man hides from behind a rock for safety. A man signals to launch rocket. Rocket sets off unsuccessfully. Scientist conducting research on a rocket inside a lab. A rocket motor running in his laboratory explodes. Scientist collapses. The rocket on a launch pad. Two men watch the launch from behind rocks. The rocket seems to fire and launch successfully.
A Russian science fiction film depicts the construction of a proposed space station in Russia. Construction work at the space station. Numerous Rockets are raised to vertical position, supported by gantries. A professor explains space maneuvers to men and women seated in a lounge. Men work on a rocket nose cone.
Shows government suppression of Bolsheviks around time of Russian Revolution, and before the 1917 abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, in Russia, and by German forces in post-war Latvia, in 1919. Imperial Russian troops intrude on a gathering of persons ostensibly opposed to Tsarist policies. Slate states such persons are accused of "Pro-Germanism." View of a damaged prison building and high guard tower. View of women and children in a large common cell of the prison. View of prison wall from outside, with barred windows evident. Women walking about inside the prison, as an Imperial Russian guard walks past the cell. View through a barred window. The final short sequence was filmed near Riga, on May 26, 1919, by American Army cameraman, Lieutenant Johnson, who was in Latvia as part of a U.S. post-war relief effort. It shows three Latvian Bolshevik soldiers facing a German firing squad. Boots of the condemned (which were valuable) have been removed. The firing squad executes the Latvian soldiers. Next, the bodies of the victims are seen in a ditch where they had fallen. (Note: This entire film includes a mix of staged theatrical and documentary scenes from various sources, times, and places.)
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