Joyous Russian women and children...

The New York Times. June 22, 1941

Russian soldier on the estern front

On board the Russian battleship, Avrora...

Burt Lancaster at the dock area at Murmansk...

These Concentration camp...

Burt Lancaster is the host narrator of "The Unknown War"

Burt Lancaster poses before a statue of Peter the Great

Russian refugees flee from advancing Nazi troops

The city of Stalingrad...

Isaac Kleinerman is executive produser and director of "The Unknown War"

Following the German surrender...

ROD McKUEN is script supervisor and musical coordinator for "The Unknown War"

Crying tears of happiness is Russian women as victorious Russian troops recapture her town

An elderly Russian and his grandson...

ROMAN KARMEN is an executive produser and director of "The Unknown War"

Isaac Kleinerman, Burt Lancaster and Roman Karmen with cameraman Yury Orlov

Production by SOVINFILM at the Central Studio of Documentary Films, Moscow, Russia (1978)