Product: Stalingrad (2003)
Rating: 4.0
An excellent work
This documentary looks at the Battle of Stalingrad, a pivotal moment in World War II. The forced surrender of an entire German army for the first time in history set the stage for Nazi Germany's ultimate defeat. While rather vague on some details which are well documented, the interviews of German and Soviet survivors of the battle are touching and bring the tragedy of this bloody battle as close to us as we will ever get.The use of archival film throughout the documentary was very good but it seemed to reuse some of it. The employment of stills (of which there are thousands upon thousands) might have made it a bit better.Certainly better than the five minute discussion normally reserved for Stalingrad in other documentaries of the war.