Allies. The Unknown War №17 (1979)

B. Lancaster speaks (synchronously in English).

Photos - Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill.

Newsreel - Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill sitting. 1941 - Fascist swastika.

Explosions.

A cart is moving, refugees are walking.

Guns and machine guns are firing.

Germans are passing by.

The wounded are walking, militiamen are standing.

Burning houses.

Great Britain - Speech by W. Churchill on June 22, 1941 (synchronously).

People are listening to the radio, soldiers are listening.

USA - The White House.

Press conference of President Roosevelt regarding assistance to the Soviet Union.

Pre-war footage - Forests.

Oil derricks.

A train with coal.

Factory workshops.

Cotton harvesting.

Cattle are grazing, grain is ripening. 1941 - Visit to Moscow of Special Assistant to the US President G. Hopkins.

Military Moscow - A car passes, carrying balloons.

The building of the Bolshoi Theatre.

Anti-aircraft gunners.

The embankment of the Moscow River.

Meeting on board a warship in the Atlantic of US President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill (during this meeting the Atlantic Charter was adopted).

Newsreel - 1942. Work at evacuated factories: people unload a train, welders work, guns and tanks in the factory shops.

German guns fire.

Soviet soldiers run to attack, explosions.

A wounded man drinks water, a soldier drags ammunition.

Visit to London in the spring of 1942 of the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the USSR V. Molotov.

Signing of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty on an alliance in the war.

Churchill and Molotov sign the document.

The newspapers Pravda and Krasnaya Zvezda.

Soldiers read newspapers.

Anti-tank obstacles on the streets of Moscow.

Sending military materials to the USSR from the USA and England - loading planes, tanks.

A Soviet soldier talks with allied soldiers.

Transportation of military cargo along the mountain roads of the Caucasus.

Transportation of military aircraft to Russia from an airfield in Alaska.

Allied transport ships at sea.

German aircraft bomb ships, sailors put on lifebelts, ship guns fire, a damaged plane falls, a ship explodes, a ship sinks.

Ships at sea.

Meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill on a warship to open a second front.

Allied soldiers stand, Roosevelt drives by in a car.

Churchill sits.

Visit of British Prime Minister W. Churchill to Moscow, meeting at the airfield, negotiations with Stalin in the Kremlin.

US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman is present at the negotiations.

Demonstration of solidarity with the people of the USSR abroad.

Stay in New York of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a sniper who killed 150 fascists. L. Pavlichenko speaks at a rally (simultaneously in English).

Great Britain - British Minister Lord Beaverbrook speaks at a rally (synchronously) calling for all possible assistance to the USSR in the fight against Nazi Germany.

Newsreel - Collection of funds for the USSR, organized by the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral H. Johnson.

Dean H. Johnson.

Rally of solidarity with the Soviet Union in the USA. Speech by the wife of President Roosevelt - E. Roosevelt.

Blood donation point for Soviet soldiers.

A female donor speaks (synchronously in broken Russian).

Toys collected for Soviet children.

Tanks drive out of the factory gates, workers work.

A pianist plays (synchronously).

Workers listen.

An orchestra plays.

Steelworkers work, a tank near the factory workshop.

Workers at their machines, a boy works.

Workers pack bombs.

Planes in the air, soldiers run, tanks move. 1943 - combat operations of Soviet soldiers.

A nurse drags a wounded man.

Soviet soldiers are transported by boat.

Soviet tanks on the streets of Kyiv.

Fireworks in Moscow.

Members of the Allied command near a map.

General Eisenhower at a map.

American and British troops land on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa and Sicily.

Churchill arrives in North Africa.

Newsreel - 1943. Building of the Soviet embassy in Tehran.

Leaders of the three powers Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill at the Tehran Conference.

British Foreign Secretary A. Eden is present at the conference.

Stalin and Molotov pass by. W. Churchill presents Stalin with an honorary sword - a gift from King George to the defenders of Stalingrad.

Stalin and Churchill shake hands.

An American actor reads (simultaneously in English) a monologue by Alexander Nevsky from a Soviet film.

Contemporary shooting - Volgograd.

Sculpture "Motherland" (from an airplane).

Newsreel - Broken military equipment, a column of tanks passes, soldiers walk.

Manifestation of unity and friendship in New York.

USSR Ambassador to the USA A. Gromyko is present.

The orchestra conducted by Leonid Stokowski performs Shostakovich's 7th Symphony, written by him in besieged Leningrad.

Fire.

Firefighters put out a fire, carry a wounded man.

A house is collapsing.

A boy is drawing.

Children's drawings: guns, burning planes, planes in the sky.

A bandaged boy looks at the drawings.

The monument to Peter the Great is being unmasked.

People on the Anichkov Bridge.

A sculpture of horses.

In the auditorium of the theater, chair covers are being removed, scenery is being put up.

People are buying books, a tram is driving down the street. 1944 - Combat operations by Soviet troops: tanks are moving, planes are flying, command members are passing by, Katyusha rockets are firing, explosions.

Soldiers are running in Sevastopol, in the forest, across the battlefield.

A soldier attaches a banner, soldiers are watching, soldiers are taking off their hats.

A border post on the restored border of the USSR. Contemporary photography - birds flying, a landscape, birds on the roof of a house, haystacks in a field.

Monuments.

Newsreel - planes flying, soldiers watching.

Military airfield near Poltava, where American and Soviet planes landed after bombing Germany.

Signalman standing, plane landing.

Pilots near planes.

US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman visiting Poltava. A. Harriman awards Soviet pilots with US military decorations.

Cameraman filming.

Sports competitions among pilots.

Women handing out food to soldiers.

Bombs being unloaded from a truck.

Planes in the air, pilot in the cockpit, bombs falling, explosions.

Newsreel - June 1944. The advance of the Allied forces - tanks are stationary, military equipment and transport are being unloaded.

Members of the Allied command: US General Eisenhower, British Field Marshal Montgomery.

Allied soldiers praying.

The crossing of the Allied forces across the English Channel - planes are flying, paratroopers are jumping, soldiers are running through a tunnel, ships are at sea, soldiers are landing on the shore, naval guns are firing.

The population of Paris welcomes the liberators, Charles de Gaulle is walking in the crowd.

The visit of British Prime Minister W. Churchill to Moscow in the fall of 1944. Negotiations between W. Churchill and I. V. Stalin.

Farewell to W. Churchill at the airfield, I. Stalin and V. Molotov are among those seeing him off.

Combat operations of the Allied forces in the Ardennes.

The offensive of the Soviet troops on the Central Front. 1945 - soldiers are running, a radio operator is talking on the phone, tanks are driving down the street of a burning city, soldiers are walking.

USA - Presidential elections.

People are on the square in front of the White House.

The newly elected president F. Roosevelt is speaking (simultaneously in English).

People are applauding.

Newsreel - The leaders of the Allied powers I. V. Stalin, F. Roosevelt and W. Churchill at the Yalta Conference: the meeting ceremony for Roosevelt and Churchill at the airport, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the negotiating table.

Churchill speaks (synchronously in English).

USA - The Capitol building, applauding, President Roosevelt speaks at a session of Congress (synchronously in English) (the last footage of F. Roosevelt during his lifetime).

Meeting of Allied and Soviet troops on the Elbe.

Contemporary footage - a participant in the meeting on the Elbe, former intelligence officer W. Robertson talks about the meeting on the Elbe (synchronously).

Newsreel - Meeting of Allied troops on the Elbe, American and Soviet soldiers raise their glasses, members of the American and Soviet command pass by. G. K. Zhukov speaks. G. Zhukov presents the highest Soviet awards to General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery.

Parade of Soviet and Allied troops in liberated Berlin.

Contemporary footage - Interview with former US Ambassador to the USSR A. Harriman (synchronously).

Moscow, Red Square.

Young men and women standing.

Children in strollers.

Monument to Soviet soldiers.

Photographs of soldiers.

Newsreel - Soldiers with a dove in a trench.