The beginning of the battle for Stalingrad (1941-1943)

German infantry is advancing along the road.

Tanks and a column of trucks are moving.

Soviet soldiers in a trench.

Soviet artillery fires at German tanks.

Soviet soldiers run across a field in the smoke.

Hitler's soldiers bathe horses, take pictures, eat, pluck chickens, and smoke.

Soviet soldiers are digging a pillbox and setting up guns.

Infantry units pass by, and an armored car rolls past.

A massive attack by German aircraft.

Soviet anti-aircraft guns are in action.

A damaged plane falls.

German planes bomb Stalingrad.

Explosions and smoke fill the city.

Hitler's soldiers watch the bombing.

Hitler's soldiers on the outskirts of Stalingrad.

Fighting in destroyed buildings.

Soviet soldiers make their way through the ruins, throwing grenades.

Germans run through the rubble.

Nazis hide among the ruins.

A Soviet soldier fires.

A burning tank.

Burning houses.

Sergeant Pavlov firing.

A German soldier firing.

The battle for Pavlov's House.

Soviet soldiers fleeing.

Soviet divisions formed in the east are flocking to the banks of the Volga for battle.

Soviet guns are firing.

Massive artillery fire.

Command of the Southwestern, Don, and Stalingrad Fronts – Eremenko, Zhukov, Rokossovsky.

Soviet tanks are advancing.

Soviet bombers are in the sky.

Soviet tanks and infantry are advancing.

On a snowy field, soldiers from both fronts run toward each other and embrace.