Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Nov 13 1943
•1h 23m
•Documentary, War
The fifth film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Cast
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Anthony Veiller
Narrator
Ion Antonescu
Self
Nikolai Cherkasov
Alexander Nevsky
Miklós Horthy
Self
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