Allies (1986)

Newsreel from 1945: Soviet artillerymen cover a gun barrel.

View of streets and buildings in London in September 1938. British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain exits an airplane.

Chamberlain delivers a speech at the airport about the negotiations with Hitler in Munich (synchronously and off-screen), Hitler, Goering, Himmler after signing the Munich Agreement.

Headlines of British newspapers after signing the Munich Agreement.

Steam locomotives running on rails.

Panorama of a German tank factory workshop (top).

New German planes heading out of the factory hangar.

Steam locomotives on sidings (panorama, top).

Fireworks in the sky over Berlin.

Hitler and Goering respond to greetings from participants in a rally on the occasion of Austria’s annexation to the Third Reich in 1938. German troops entering Prague.

A tank column moves through Prague.

Hitler and Mussolini enter the palace hall, sit down in armchairs during another meeting.

Parade of the Italian Bersaglieri.

General Franco F. gets out of a car.

A guard of honor lined up in honor of Franco.

Combat operations of Wehrmacht units in Poland in September 1939. Panorama of part of Warsaw after an air raid (top).

Parisians read mobilization notices.

French soldiers and French Prime Minister Jean-Paul Reynaud at one of the fortifications of the Maginot Line.

Map of military operations on the Maginot Line (animation).

Reynaud comes out of the bunker door.

Reynaud and the military on a hunt in the Maginot Line area.

The hunters' prey.

Himmler and the military walk along the street of one of the occupied capitals of Europe.

Posters with messages about the capitulation of European countries.

Wehrmacht units march along the streets of occupied European cities.

German soldiers look at church books and talk with clergy of the Greek Orthodox Church.

Pages of an old book.

American soldiers in 1945 look at paintings and works of art from the Goering collection, which he took from museums in Europe.

Falling walls of buildings during the fighting in European cities in 1940. Detail of the Nazi eagle with swastika.

Nazi poster.

View of central London before dawn.

Sound detector pipes of an air defense system.

British anti-aircraft artillery fires at German aircraft.

Panorama of a burning building at night.

View of a village at night during an air raid on Great Britain (top).

Results of the bombing of London.

Women and children fill windows with sandbags.

Construction of concrete fortifications.

Airplane propellers turn, pilots climb into the cockpits of their machines.

The interior of one of the command centers of the British air defenses.

A British soldier at his post.

British militiamen marching.

A milkman in Berlin removes milk cans from a cart on June 22, 1941. Switching on the radio station equipment.

Goebbels enters his office before giving a radio address.

Goebbels, sitting at his desk, delivers the text of his radio address to the German people.

Views of a press conference at the Ministry of Propaganda, journalists' faces.

Newspapers being delivered to addresses in Berlin.

Nazi German troops engaged in combat operations at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in June 1941. Infantry advancing along the side of the road.

German artillery firing.

Panorama of a city block occupied by the German occupiers in the first hours of the war (top).

A German cavalry unit moving across a bridge, horses being led by the bridle.

Panorama of a burnt-out Soviet motorcade.

Burning houses.

Panorama of part of a defensive position of one of the Red Army rifle units.

The Red Army is engaged in combat operations.

View of an anti-tank defensive line.

A column of German armored vehicles moving along the road.

Arrival in Moscow of the British military mission headed by General A. Brooke in July 1941, meeting at the airfield.

Meeting the head of the mission at the plane.

An American sailor gives signals with a trooper.

The American warship on which the meeting of Churchill W. and Roosevelt F.D. took place in 1941. Churchill and Roosevelt during the meeting.

Signing in Moscow of the treaties that laid the foundation for the creation of the anti-Hitler coalition, attended by Stalin I.V., Molotov V.M., Timoshenko S.K. Military operations on the Soviet-German front in the fall of 1941. Street views of besieged Moscow.

Soviet aircraft before taking off on a combat mission.

A unit of skiers moves to the front line.

German soldiers push a car out of the mud.

The offensive of the Red Army near Moscow in December 1941, the infantry attacks with the support of tanks.

An attack on a populated area near Moscow, rifle units fighting for villages and towns.

Soviet soldiers in camouflage suits marching through the streets of a liberated city, faces of children and adults greeting the liberators.

Wehrmacht military equipment destroyed near Moscow.

Corpses of German soldiers.

The British delegation led by Foreign Secretary A. Eden during an inspection of the sites of battles between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht.

Eden's face.

Members of the British delegation walk to their cars.

Japanese Emperor Hirohito rides on horseback accompanied by generals during a troop review.

Japanese deck artillery fires at American ships, Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor.

Military action between the USA and Japan in the Pacific Ocean.

Warships on a campaign.

Launching of another American ship.

Faces of the guests of honor at the ceremony.

The face of the "godmother" of another destroyer.

A woman smashes a bottle of champagne against the side of the new destroyer.

Soviet poster calling for revenge against the German occupiers.

British orchestra performing works by Tchaikovsky.

Faces of British workers listening to music.

Production processes at one of the British factories.

A donor donating blood.

Packing containers with preserved blood.

Sending cargo to the USSR. An American military transport plane taking off.

Faces of British workers.

British tanks for the Red Army exit the gates of a box.

British workers at their machines.

A children's choir performs "Song of the Motherland" in English, children's faces.

Drawings by British children in support of the USSR. Soviet poster from 1941. Molotov V.M. in London during a meeting with Churchill in May 1942. Molotov and Churchill sign an alliance treaty against Germany.

Molotov and Churchill talk after signing the treaty, Eden is standing nearby.

Molotov's plane on the runway.

Ambassador to the USA M.M. Litvinov. and US Secretary of State Hull K. sign the Soviet-American Agreement on Mutual Assistance on June 11, 1942 in Washington.

Molotov and Litvinov near the plane before Molotov's departure from the United States.

Molotov says goodbye to Hull.

A plane in flight (top).

Churchill's face in the window.

Churchill, Stalin, and US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman during a meeting in the Kremlin in 1942. Soviet artillery fires during the start of the counteroffensive near Stalingrad on November 19, 1942. Street fighting in Stalingrad in December 1942. Meeting of troops of the Southwestern and Stalingrad Fronts during the encirclement of the German group near Stalingrad.

Soldiers and commanders embrace each other.

Corpses of German soldiers and destroyed enemy equipment (panorama).

Captured German equipment.

Field Marshal F. Paulus during interrogation after surrendering.

A column of German prisoners of war is moving.

British General B.L. Montgomery looks through binoculars.

Scheme of the Battle of El Alamein (animation).

General Rommel explains the mission to the unit commanders.

Combat actions of British troops in North Africa during the offensive of October 23, 1942. British soldiers go on the attack.

A column of German prisoners of war moves through the desert.

Raising the British flag.

Transmission of messages by teletype.

Roosevelt and Churchill during a meeting in Cairo.

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill during a meeting in Tehran, faces of the heads of state.

Presentation of a sword to Stalin as a gift from the English people to the heroes of Stalingrad.

A train with British heavy tanks is moving.

Loading of cars onto ships using port cranes.

Loading of strategic cargo for the USSR under Lend-Lease into the holds, faces of English and American sailors.

A sailor gives a signal to the soldiers.

Onboard artillery of a naval convoy firing.

Ships of an allied convoy repel attacks by German aircraft and submarines.

Convoy escort ships on a voyage.

Panorama of the Murmansk port.

A sailor with a rifle on duty.

Production processes in industrial workshops.

A rally in Madison Square Garden in honor of the 11th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the USA. View of the rally.

USSR Ambassador to the USA A.A. Gromyko speaks to an audience of thousands.

Soviet and American pilots in Alaska.

American combat aircraft at the airfield before taking off for the USSR (top).

Aircraft being ferried to the USSR in flight, Eskimos watch the aircraft flying by.

American pilots near aircraft at a jump-off airfield in the Poltava region in 1944. Soviet and American pilots during an inspection of the ruins of Poltava, a panorama of one of the destroyed quarters of Poltava.

Map of the Allied landings in Normandy.

The face of an American paratrooper.

American paratroopers leave the plane during the landing on the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944. Parachute canopies and planes in the sky over Normandy.

American landing ships move towards the shore.

The landing of Allied units on the coast of Normandy.

The greeting of Allied troops by the residents of a city in France.

Infantry and tanks of the Red Army on the offensive.

Soviet troops enter the streets of liberated cities of Europe.

The greeting of Soviet troops by the population of Romania and Bulgaria.

Parisians greet tankers of General Leclerc's army on August 26, 1944. Parisians greet General de Gaulle.

The faces of de Gaulle and the Parisians greeting him.

Jubilant people on the streets of Paris.

The counteroffensive of German troops in the Ardennes in December 1944. A column of American prisoners of war.

Broken equipment of the Allies.

The text of Churchill's appeal to Stalin with a request for help.

Soviet soldiers at the front during a rest period.

Soviet artillery begins artillery preparation.

Airplanes are flying.

The Red Army offensive in January 1945. Soviet troops are engaged in combat operations, artillery is firing at the enemy.

Circular panorama of the Livadia Palace, where the Yalta Conference was held from February 4 to 11, 1945 (top).

Participants of the Yalta Conference at a round table during a session.

Churchill during a conference session.

Cameramen are filming the leaders of the three powers in the courtyard.

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin are sitting in armchairs.

The faces of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt.

Roosevelt with children on his lap.

Truman H. takes the oath of office.

Residents of liberated European cities greet Soviet soldiers-liberators in the spring of 1945. Meeting of Soviet and British soldiers.

Field Marshal Montgomery returns people's greetings while driving through the city streets in an open car.

Parade of units of the Polish People's Army.

Soldiers of the Polish Army before the attack.

Units of the Czechoslovak Army Corps in formation with military equipment.

Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army of Yugoslavia during a rest in tents.

Refueling machine gun belts.

Girls in formation during drill training.

The face of Tito I.B. Units of the Wehrmacht on the march.

German soldiers conduct military operations in Europe in March-April 1945. Units of the people's liberation armies on the streets of liberated cities of Europe.

Hitler during a meeting with Mussolini, released from captivity in August 1944. Hitler and Mussolini over a map of military operations.

View of a demonstration in one of the liberated cities (above).

People catch leaflets.

Panorama of part of the ceremonial meeting.

View of the meeting hall dedicated to the creation of the UN. Signing of the United Nations Charter by representatives of the UN member states in New York, among them A.A. Gromyko, Lord Halifax, head of the French delegation Boncourt, US Secretary of State E. Stettinius.

Views and panorama of the ceremonial meeting hall.

Meeting of Soviet and American troops on the Elbe on April 25, 1945. Soviet and American soldiers and officers greet each other.

Awarding of an American medal to a Soviet officer.

Faces of Soviet and American soldiers (panorama).

Salute from American artillery guns.

Ruins of Hitler's residence.

External and internal views of the destroyed memorial beer hall.

Liberated prisoners of war run out of the camp gates.

Faces of liberated prisoners of war.

View of part of the German prisoner of war camp.

Faces of Soviet prisoners of war.

German soldiers run to surrender.

Street fighting in Berlin.

A column of German prisoners of war on one of the streets of burning Berlin.

The raising of the Red Banner over the Reichstag on May 1, 1945. Soviet soldiers and officers fire a small arms salute at the banner raised over the Reichstag.

White flags and bedsheets sticking out of the windows of Berlin buildings.

Field Marshal Keitel signs the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany in Karlhorst.

Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov signs his signature.

The parade of Allied troops in Berlin.

The flags of the victorious powers flutter.

View of the destroyed Reichstag building.

Churchill inspects the ruins of the former Imperial Chancellery.

The ditch where the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned.

Gasoline cans on the edge of the ditch.

Churchill inspects the ruins of the Imperial Chancellery.

Truman and Churchill during the Potsdam Conference.

British Prime Minister K. Attlee, US President H. Truman, I. Stalin and V. Molotov on the grounds of Cecilienhof Palace during a press conference.

Truman's face.

Truman talking to Churchill, Stalin standing next to him.

A swinging bell.

Clouds in the sky.

Residents of European and US cities congratulate each other on their victories.

Views of festive demonstrations in London and New York.

Soldiers of the Captured Banners Battalion throw German banners at the foot of the mausoleum during the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945. Meeting of Soviet and American servicemen on the Elbe.

Faces of soldiers.

A poster dedicated to Soviet-American friendship.

A Soviet soldier at a covered howitzer barrel.