Minin and Pozharsky
After an interruption caused by health concerns, Pudovkin returned to movie making, this time with a number of historical epics: "Victory" (1938); "Minin and Pozharsky" (1939) and "Suvorov" (1941). The last two were often praised as some of the best movies based on Russian history, along with the works of Sergei Eisenstein. Pudovkin was awarded a Stalin Prize for both of them in 1941.