The film tells about the defense of Stalingrad during World War II.
1 hour - Mamayev Kurgan. German infantry advances, equipment passes by. Japanese ambassador Oshima at Hitler's headquarters, among German generals, at a map, and more. 2 hours - Destroyed Kharkov, German soldiers cross the river. 3 hours - Soviet Army command post. Tank battle. Soviet tank crosses the river. Tank and infantry attacks. Aircraft assembly. German tank is burning. Residents of Stalingrad dig defensive fortifications. Paratroopers jump from a German plane and land. 4 hours - Soviet anti-aircraft gunners shoot down German planes. Fires in Stalingrad. Residents leave the city. Soviet soldiers cross the Volga by boat. German soldiers on the streets of Stalingrad, on the bank of the Volga. 5 hours - German medal "For Stalingrad". Germans build a road. Everyday life of German soldiers. Street fighting in Stalingrad. Pavlov's House. Honoring Pavlov in 1970. General Rodimtsev among the soldiers. 6 o'clock - A wounded tanker is pulled out of a tank. Marshal Chuikov speaks over a map. Sailors of the Volga Flotilla run to attack. Stalin speaks.




The sculpture "Motherland" on Mamayev Kurgan. B. Lancaster speaks at the monument (simultaneously in English).
Fragments of the monument "Motherland".
The sculpture "Grieving Mother".
Mamayev Kurgan.
The mother of nurse Natasha Kachuevskaya, who died in the battle for Stalingrad, is climbing the stairs.
Pantheon.
The last name of those killed in the battle for Stalingrad. N. Kachuevskaya's mother in the Pantheon.
Newsreel - German planes are flying.
The pilot is in the cockpit, bombs are flying, explosions on the ground. 1942. German soldiers are walking, German equipment is driving by.
Germany - Hitler receives the Japanese ambassador in Berlin, Oshima.
Oshima and the German generals arrive at the front.
Oshima and members of the German command are at the map, Oshima is looking through binoculars, talking with the generals.
German tanks are driving by, soldiers are passing by.
April 5, 1942 - Hitler, Goering and members of the German command discuss the plan for a military operation over a map.




Newsreel - Spring 1942. Destroyed Kharkov.
Battles for the liberation of Kharkov - Soviet soldiers run to the attack.
German soldiers shoot, German tanks drive.
A hut is burning, a woman looks on, a woman cries with a child in her arms.
Refugees walk along the road.
German planes fly, explosions on the water, a steamship burns.
German soldiers in occupied Kerch.
Defense of Sevastopol - naval guns fire, explosions.
German guns fire.
General Manstein looks through binoculars.
Burning Sevastopol.
Evacuation of city residents.
German soldiers ride on motorcycles, military equipment moves.
German guns fire, columns of soldiers move.
German troops cross the Don.
Soviet soldiers in cover.
Firing position, Soviet tanks move.
The inscription on the tank "Komsomolets".




Newsreel - Stalingrad Front.
Soviet soldiers firing guns.
Command post.
Battle.
Planes in the air.
Tank battle, tank attack.
Soviet soldiers in the trenches.
Ural - work at defense plants.
Assembling planes, sending guns, tanks, Katyusha rocket launchers to the front.
A soldier fires a flare gun, planes are preparing to take off.
German guns are firing, German soldiers are in the trenches.
Tank battle.
Planes in the air, bombs are flying, explosions.
Burning German tanks, killed German soldiers.
Besieged Stalingrad - checking documents on a city street, a balloon is being carried along the street, city residents are receiving weapons.
Militiamen pass by.
Members of the city defense committee.
City residents are digging defensive fortifications.
Soldiers are installing and camouflaging guns.
Tanks at a tractor factory, tanks are leaving the factory gates.
German planes in the air, German paratroopers landing, German soldiers advancing.
German soldiers in a trench, German guns firing, Germans looking through binoculars.
Stalingrad Defense Committee.
A telegraph operator and a signalman working.




Newsreel - German planes flying, Soviet artillery firing, explosions.
German soldiers spread a fascist flag on the ground.
German planes dropping bombs, German pilots.
Soviet anti-aircraft guns firing, a German plane burning and falling.
Houses exploding and burning in Stalingrad, firefighters working, carrying the wounded on stretchers.
Residents leaving the city.
Destroyed city.
Air battle.
Planes flying, anti-aircraft guns firing, a plane burning, water burning, fire in the city.
Burning Stalingrad.
General Zhukov.
Soviet soldiers crossing the Volga.
German troops on the outskirts of Stalingrad.
German soldiers and tanks on the streets of the city.




Newsreel - Bell tower, German soldiers raising the flag.
Foreign newspapers, poster "Stalingrad has fallen".
Goebbels speaking (freeze frame).
German medal "For Stalingrad".
Awarding of German soldiers.
German soldiers building a railroad on the approaches to Stalingrad.
Everyday life of German soldiers - writing letters, smoking, plucking chickens, milking a cow, eating (a song in German plays in the background).
Soviet pilots preparing planes for battle.
Fighting in the streets of Stalingrad.
Destroyed city.
Soviet sniper firing.
Soviet soldiers firing from a destroyed building.
Pavlov's House.
Filmed in 1970 - Participant in the defense of Stalingrad Ya.
Pavlov talks to young people.
Participant in the defense of Stalingrad I. Afanasyev tells (synchronously) his daughter about the battles for the city.
Photographs of participants in the defense of Stalingrad: sniper V. Zaitsev, signalman M. Putilov.
Newsreel - General Rodimtsev among soldiers.
Soviet soldiers run to attack.




Newsreel - Soviet soldiers running through the ruined city.
A nurse and soldiers leading the wounded, a wounded tanker is placed on a stretcher.
A wounded soldier and a nurse in a trench, a nurse bandaging a soldier's arm.
Funeral of a dead soldier.
General Chuikov and other commanders at a map.
Contemporary footage - Marshal Chuikov talks (synchronously) about the battles at Stalingrad.
Volga landscapes.
Newsreel - A military boat sails, a gun fires.
A German plane flies.
Sailors of the Volga Flotilla fire at the plane, rush to the attack.
Fighting in the streets of Stalingrad.
Photo of Field Marshal Keitel.
German soldiers shooting.
Soviet soldiers carry boxes of ammunition, a house collapses, a fight.
Wartime Moscow - a sentry on the roof of a building, transport on the streets.
The Moscow River, Red Square.
Ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 25th anniversary of October.
Stalin speaks (synchronously).
Listeners in the hall.
Soldiers at the front listen to Stalin's speech.
Fighting in the streets of Stalingrad, soldiers running, a tank burning.
Soviet soldiers leave the dugout, set up a gun, shoot.
A panorama of Stalingrad.