The films reputation has grown steadily over the years, with many now branding it a "masterpiece".

Watchers have hailed an epic war film as better than several other major players in the genre. Stalingrad is a 1993 German anti-war film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It follows a platoon of German ...

The Germans attack Stalingrad, and are engaged in close-quarters combat within the city. Chuikov's soldiers manage to hold on to their positions; On 19 November 1942, the Red Army launches a ...

The 2013 war movie Stalingrad, directed by Fedor Bondarchuk, is gritty, exciting, romantic and chock full of cutting-edge special effects. It's also deeply, deeply immoral, a work of pro-war ...

In June 1941, Nazi troops invaded the USSR. It's an “ideological and racial war”, says Adolf Hitler. Marshal Zhukov stopped the Germans at the gates of Moscow. But in July 1942, the Führer decided to ...