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The Unknown War (Russian: "Великая Отечественная" or "Неизвестная война" is an American documentary television series. The 20-part series documents the World War II conflict between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The show was produced and syndicated for international distribution by Air Time International, and the executive producer was Fred Weiner. Each episode is about 48 minutes long, similar in format to the film The World at War. The footage was edited from over 3.5 million feet of film taken by Soviet camera crews from the first day of the war during Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 through the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in August 1945. Most of these films have never been seen outside this documentary series.
Original Release
01/01/1978 on PBS
US Release
06/22/1978
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Burt Lancaster | Self - Host |
| Vasiliy Lanovoy | Self - Host |
| Averell Harriman | Self |
| Adolf Hitler | Self |
| Iosif Stalin | Self |
| Georgi Zhukov | Self |
| Franz Halder | Self |
| Semyon Timoshenko | Self |
| Andrei Zhdanov | Self |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Self |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 22 1941 | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 2 | The Battle for Moscow | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 3 | The Siege of Leningrad | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 4 | To the East | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 5 | The Defense of Stalingrad | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 6 | Survival at Stalingrad | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 7 | The World's Greatest Tank Battle | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 8 | War in the Arctic | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 9 | War in the Air | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 10 | The Partisans | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 11 | The Battle of the Seas | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 12 | The Battle of Caucasus | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 13 | Liberation of the Ukraine | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 14 | The Liberation of Belorussia | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 15 | The Balkans to Vienna | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 16 | The Liberation of Poland | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 17 | The Allies | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 18 | The Battle of Berlin | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 19 | The Last Battle of the Unknown War | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
| 20 | A Soldier of the Unknown War | Sunday, 01 January 1978 |
Directors
Roman Karmen, Igor Guelein, Ilya Gutman, Juan Angel, Lev Danilov, Nina Solovjeva, Vassily Katanian, Gemma Firsova, Siemen Kisselov, Alexandra Rybakova, Igor Grigoryev, Zoya Fomina, Leonid Kristi
Writers
John Lord, Igor Itskov, Konstantin Slavin, Roman Karmen, Sergei Drobashenko, Alexander Pumpiansky, Pavel Demidov, Gemma Firsova, Edwin Polianovsky, Ivan Mendzheritskiy
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Burt Lancaster | Self - Host |
| Vasiliy Lanovoy | Self - Host |
| Averell Harriman | Self |
| Adolf Hitler | Self |
| Iosif Stalin | Self |
| Georgi Zhukov | Self |
| Franz Halder | Self |
| Semyon Timoshenko | Self |
| Andrei Zhdanov | Self |
| Vyacheslav Molotov | Self |
| Joachim von Ribbentrop | Self |
| Alfred Rosenberg | Self |
| Dmitri Shostakovich | Self |
| Neville Chamberlain | Self |
| Benito Mussolini | Self |
| Ernest Hemingway | Self |
| Anthony Eden | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Isaac Kleinerman | Executive Producer |
| Bruce Fogel | Producer |
| Kalman Liebowitz | Producer |
| Konstantin Kalser | Producer |
| Evgueny Kozirev | Producer |
