6.050 minSeason 1 • Episode 16
LatestHitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR ran into some its fiercest resistance at the Black Sea ports of Odessa and Sevastopol, where Soviet elite naval infantry brigades fought doggedly to hold back German and Romanian troops. At Sevastopol, a long and bloody siege unfolded, causing the Germans to bring in some of the biggest artillery guns ever used.
The epic television history of the Second World War’s Eastern Front giving an unprecedented Russian perspective on the war’s most decisive and bloody theater.
Production
Massive CGI battle recreations on a documentary budget.
Direction
Unapologetically Russian POV — refreshing and frustrating.
Editing
Jarring mix of survivor testimony and Soviet mythmaking.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Funded by Russian state TV but surprisingly critical of early Soviet failures — a tightrope walk of national narrative.
The CGI team reused battle assets so extensively that the same digital T-34 dies heroically in at least four separate episodes.
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