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The Great Battle (1969)
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The Great Battle (1969)
Original name: Osvobozhdenie: Ognennaya duga
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Italy
Duration: 470 min.
TV show
Story: Two great armies duel to the death with a million guns and ten thousand tanks - THE GREAT BATTLE.
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, red army, tank, soviet army, propaganda, russian soldier, communist propaganda, armor, rocket launcher, uniform, ammunition
Time: year 1945

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, rough, suspenseful and disturbing films and TV series with plots about world war two, great patriotic war, red army, uniform, soviet army, soldier and russian soldier mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like The Great Battle: They Fought for Their Country (1975), Tank T-34 (1965), Spring on the Oder (1968), The Alive and the Dead (1964), Soldiers Aren't Born (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the ...
Style: heroic, sentimental, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, red army, heroism, world war, life & death, war, camaraderie, military, nazi, retreat, eastern front, soviet soldier ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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Tank T-34 (1965)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that ...
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, tank, red army, pow, behind enemy lines, self sacrifice, armor, uniform
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Spring on the Oder (1968)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A war drama set in Germany at the end od WWII.
Plot: world war two, russian soldier, great patriotic war, red army, russian abroad, soviet army, uniform
Time: year 1945
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Alive and the Dead (1964)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 201 min.
Story: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken ...
Style: epic
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, red army, cold weather, war correspondent, soldier, frontline, soviet army, tank, bombing, russian soldier, uniform ...
Time: year 1941
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Soldiers Aren't Born (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The continuation of a story started by Alexander Stolper epic movie "Zhivye i Myortvye".
Style: epic
Plot: great patriotic war, red army, world war two, russian soldier, battles, military uniform
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Fortress on Wheels (1961)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A story about an armored train number 56 and his actions during WWII.
Plot: red army, soviet army, nazi soldier, russian soldier, exploitation, enemy, great patriotic war, commander, captain, tank, train, soldier ...
Place: soviet union, ukraine, kiev ukraine
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At War as at War (1969)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's trying to impress his superior Soviet officers who put him ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, patriotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soviet army, world war two, great patriotic war, military, soldier, heroism, friendship, battles, leadership, transformation, heroes, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1943
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Check Passed: No Mines (1965)
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min.
Story: October 20, 1944, Belgrade was liberated by Red Army and Tito's partisans. But the capital of Yugoslavia is still fraught with danger - retreating aggressor mined the city . A special partisan squad goes into underground maze of tunnels to find ...
Plot: red army, world war two, partisan, landmine, danger, soldier, army, minefield, military uniform, uniform
Time: year 1944
Place: belgrade serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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In Flight are the Night Witches (1981)
Genre: War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Film will be based on the female flying unit that fought in the Battle of Moscow. They were dubbed "Night Witches" by the frightened German soldiers because of the deadly stealth of their light planes.
Style: bleak, rough, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, female warrior, female soldier, great patriotic war, women, fight, battles, wartime, aviation, soviet army, heroism, danger ...
Time: 1940s
Place: ukraine, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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White Tiger (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Style: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, war, tank, eastern front, obsession, great patriotic war, heroic mission, amnesiac, military life, supernatural, field hospital, burn victim ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Front in the Rear of the Enemy (1982)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 161 min.
Story: A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style: patriotic
Plot: world war two, patriot, partisan, great patriotic war, nazi occupation, soviet army, firearm
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Liberation of Prague (1977)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story: On 20th of April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague K.H. Frank (Nazi Secretary of State and Chief of police in the Protectorate of Bohemia a Moravia) ...
Plot: world war two, machine gun, communist, fascism, red army, concentration camp, rebellion, russian soldier, propaganda
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: czechoslovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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T-34 (2018)
Genre: Action, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, uplifting, rough ...
Plot: tank, world war two, great patriotic war, captivity, danger, battles, homecoming, wartime, russian soldier, heroes, world war, friendship ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, year 1944
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Panfilov's 28 (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight ...
Style: touching, rough, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: world war two, red army, russian soldier, bravery, heroism, infantry, eastern front, protector, wartime, military life, world war, war ...
Time: year 1941, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Attack and Retreat (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, ...
Style: macaroni combat
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Time: 1940s, year 1941, year 1942
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Klim Voroshilov-2 Tank (1990)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tank Klim Voroshilov 2
Style: suspense, disturbing, sincere, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: great patriotic war, world war two, death, tank, nazi soldier, battlefield, soldier, eastern front, danger, german soldier, wartime life, nazi ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Officers (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals.
Style: breathtaking, captivating, tense, uplifting, thought provoking ...
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Genre: War, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: April 1945: In the demolished and bombed-out streets of Berlin the civilian population tries to survive the last days of Nazi rule and to hide from marauding Red Army forces.
Plot: world war two, nazi, german soldier, combat casualty, german history, red army, nazi germany, russian soldier, demolished city
Time: 1940s
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 106 min.
Story: По вызову своего жениха, Светлана поехала в захолустный городок, где на самой окраине стоял двухэтажный дом «на семи ветрах». Но ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Hot Snow (1972)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, USA, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
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Plot: world war two, death, ruins, battles, dead soldier, uniform
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Everlasting Glory (1976)
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Country: Taiwan
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Plot: world war two, chinese army, japanese soldier, sino japanese war, tank, japanese army
Time: 1940s, 1930s
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24%
Where is the General? (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Waclaw Orzeszko is unlucky soldier. Nobody from the platoon likes him. One day he decided to go away from platoon. At the castle he meet Russian soldier Marusia. At this time German forces came at the castle. They must hide. But there is also second ...
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Time: year 1945
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. ...
Style: fun
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal ...
Style: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, patriotic, sad ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: During World War II, оld Georgian peasant wine-grower Georgy (Sergo Zakariadze) leaves his Georgian village and goes off to the front line, hoping to find his son. George should see and transfer a lot of things, he becomes a soldier and only in ...
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Batallions Ask for Fire (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 285 min.
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Story: A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, rough
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1940s, year 1942
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Before Sunrise (1989)
Genre: Action
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Wartime, summer 1941. Train carrying criminals gets under enemy fire and crashed. Out of all of the living are only a young lieutenant of the NKVD and two prisoners - the thief and repressed Communist party worker.
Style: exciting, thought provoking, epic, suspense, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: sentimental, rough, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: world war two, great patriotic war, fighter pilot, aviation, aerial combat, camaraderie, love, fighter plane, patriotism, friendship between men, life & death, soviet army ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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