Soviet Storm - WW2 in the East

Soviet Storm is epic television history of the Second World War's Eastern Front. Originally produced for Russian television, it gives an unprecedented eastern perspective on the war's most decisive and bloody theater, all depicted through stunning computer-generated imagery and reconstructions.

It was a conflict of staggering scale and savagery. Four out of five German soldiers killed in World War Two died on the Eastern Front. The Red Army suffered ten times as many dead as the Western Allies combined. The total dead on all sides was more than 30 million, most of them civilians. The war was seen by both sides as a struggle for existence. It meant that both Hitler and Stalin were prepared to accept losses on any scale to achieve final victory.

Soviet Storm tells the story of this titanic clash of arms blow by blow. Across 18 episodes we explore some of the largest and most dramatic battles of history, from the murderous fighting amidst the ruins of Stalingrad to the horrors of the Siege of Leningrad, to the roaring of tank engines across the Russian steppe at the Battle of Kursk. We take close-up looks at the key personalities and decisive weapons of the war, including legendary tanks like the T-34 and the Tiger, and lesser known Soviet weapons including the B-5 howitzer ('Stalin's Sledgehammer') and the Ilyushin 2 ('The Flying Tank').

Production: Star Media Group
Year of production: 2011
Number of episodes: 18
Directed by:Anna Grazhdan
Written by:Artem Drabkin, Aleksey Isaev
Production designer:Valeriy Babich
Music by:Boris Kukoba
Producers: Valeriy Babich , Vlad Ryashin , Sergey Titinkov , Konstantin Ernst
Premiere:29/03/2010 (Russia), 03/05/2010 (Ukraine), 20/06/2011 (UK – The History channel)

Episode 1: Operation Barbarossa
Episode 2: Kiev, 1941
Episode 3: The Defence of Sevastopol
Episode 4: The Battle for Moscow
Episode 5: The Siege of Leningrad
Episode 6: Rzhev
Episode 7: Stalingrad
Episode 8: The Battle for Caucasus
Episode 9: The Battle of Kursk
Episode 10: The Liberation Of Ukraine
Episode 11: Operation Bagration
Episode 12: War in the Air
Episode 13: War in the Sea
Episode 14: The Partisan Movement
Episode 15: Secret Intelligence of the Red Army
Episode 16: The Battle for Germany
Episode 17: Battle of Berlin
Episode 18: War Against Japan

Technical info for files:

Format : MPEG-4/AVC 1080p
Bit rate : ~2 300 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : ~7 000 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Audio : AAC
Bit rate : 192 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Language : English