- Title: VM-289
- Summary: STALIN: THE POWER OF FEAR: ANALYZES STALIN'S USE OF ABSOLUTE POWER OVER THE SOVIET UNION, IN WHICH FEAR & FORCE WERE DOMINANT & IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS WHERE POOR JUDGMENT WAS OFTEN USED. EMPHASIZES WWII, RUSSIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS, HIS PERSONALITY TRAITS & PARANOIA, & THE COLD WAR ERA.
- Description:01:17:57 - CU STALIN 01:18:01 - BALLOON WITH STALINS IMAGE ON IT FLOATING IN SKY 01:18:04 - RUSSIAN PEOPLE LOOKING UP AT BALLOON 01:18:05 - MONTAGE OF BALLOONS WITH SLOGANS & PHOTOS RISING UP IN THE AIR 01:18:18 - TALKING HEAD 01:19:15 - FIGHTER PLANES FLY OVER BUILDING WITH EAGLE STATUE ON TOP 01:19:18 - MONTAGE GERMAN-RUSSIAN SHOW OF MILITARY STRENGTH, CIRCA 1939. 01:19:47 - STALIN & HITLER & VARIOUS MILITARY LEADERS DURING SIGNING OF GERMAN-RUSSIAN TREATY, 1939 NON-AGGRESSION PACT 01:20:15 - CLOCK TOWER, KREMLIN BELLS SOUNDING 01:20:22 - PRE DAWN ON WATER SMALL BOATS DOCKED 01:20:28 - JUNE 22, 1941 GERMAN ASSAULT ON RUSSIA. 01:20:47 - PILES OF DEAD BODIES KILLED IN WAR 01:21:04 - TALKING HEAD 01:21:55 - STALIN SMOKING A PIPE 01:21:57 - CU RUSSIAN PEOPLE-CITIZENS LISTENING CAREFULLY TO STALIN 01:22:02 - CU SOUND SPEAKERS PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM CARRYING STALIN'S MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE 01:22:05 - RUSSIAN CONCERNED CITIZENS GATHER AROUND SPEAKER, PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM LISTENING TO LEADERS SPEECH 01:22:09 - MONTAGE RUSSIANS LISTENING TO RADIOS. CU MAN WITH EAR TO RADIO. FAMILIES, PEOPLE AT DINNER PARTY. COMMUNICATION. 01:22:24 - CU RUSSIAN CITIZENS WITH CONCERNED LOOKS ON FACES CONCENTRATING 01:22:32 - HUGE CLOTH POSTER OF STALIN BEING RIPPED DOWN IN BALTIC LIBERATED CITIZENS CLAPPING 01:22:45 - GROUP OF BALTIC WOMEN STAND WITH GERMAN SOLDIER 01:22:48 - CU PEASANTS IN FARMLAND AS GERMAN ARMY LIBERATORS PASS 01:22:56 - CU GERMAN ARMY PASSING PEASANTS WOMAN USES CROSS TO BLESS SOLDIERS CRUNCHING MARCH SOUND AUDIBLE 01:23:17 - HUGE SQUARE IN RUSSIA MASSIVE BLIMPS 01:23:36 - MONTAGE OF CITIZENS DIGGING BUILDING FORTRESSES BLOCKADES TRENCHES PREPARING FOR WAR 01:24:02 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN GENERALS MEETING 01:24:21 - CU RUSSIAN MEDAL 01:24:27 - CU FLAG WITH LENINS IMAGE ON IT SUPERIMPOSED IN FLAG RUSSIAN HEROS OF THE PAST 01:24:44 - RUSSIAN ARMY MARCHING WITH LENIN FLAG 01:25:14 - BUNDLED UP RUSSIAN SOLDIERS IN WHITE JUMP SUITS & TWO GUNS MARCHING 01:25:26 - RUSSIAN CITIZENS AT RUSSIAN ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS CEREMONY OUTSIDE IN SNOW PEOPLES BREATH SEEN 01:25:45 - RUSSIAN PRIEST PERFORMING RELIGIOUS CEREMONY DIPPING CROSS INTO HOLY WATER 01:26:12 - ICONOCLASTS STAGING RELIGIOUS MOCKERY ANTI-ORTHODOX PERFORMANCE IN PARADE. CHRISTIANITY DERIDED IN PUBLIC. RIDICULE 01:26:24 - SOLDIERS KNEEL IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY. CU SOLDIER KISSING RELIGIOUS ICON 01:26:41 - WAR-BATTLE FOOTAGE. BATTLE OF STALINGRAD 01:26:59 - RUSSIAN GENERALS LED BY MARSHALL ZHUKOV MEETING PLANNING WAR 01:27:04 - FOXHOLE COMMUNICATION CENTER 01:27:12 - CU HAND HOLDING PENCIL MARKING MAP 01:27:15 - MONTAGE RUSSIAN ARMY FIGHTING GERMAN ARMY 01:27:38 - CU GROUP OF RUSSIAN GENERALS IN FOXHOLE LOOKING UP AT FIGHTER PLANES ABOVE 01:27:45 - PLANES DROP LOADS OF BOMB ON TARGETS 01:27:49 - RUSSIAN CITIZENS CRANE NECKS TO SEE CAPTURED GERMANS PARADED THROUGH STREETS. ANGRY WOMAN SPITS AT GERMAN SOLDIERS 01:28:22 - GERMAN SOLDIERS POWS SHOVED IN TRAINS TAKEN AWAY TO ARCTIC LABOR CAMPS 01:28:38 - RUSSIAN TROOPS MARCH NAZI FLAGS TO LENINS TOMB. THROWING CAPTURED NAZI FLAGS ON GROUND 01:28:54 - CU STALIN WATCHING 01:29:01 - CU PILES OF CAPTURED NAZI FLAGS 01:29:06 - CU MONTAGE RUSSIAN CITIZENS FACES 01:29:12 - HUGE OUTDOOR SPECTACLE FIREWORKS TO CELEBRATE GERMAN DEFEAT 01:29:24 - MAN TURNS OVER DEAD SOLDIERS BODY 01:29:27 - RUSSIAN CITIZENS LOOKING AT DEAD 01:29:35 - MONTAGE OF DISPLACED RUSSIANS ON THE MOVE 01:29:55 - CU REFUGEES FEET WALKING WITH POSSESSIONS ACROSS COBBLESTONE ROAD 01:30:12 - MEN PICKING & CHOOSING WHO WILL RIDE IN BACK OF TRUCK REFUGEES GETTING RIDE 01:30:31 - BLEAK PICTURE OF RUSSIANS BEING SENT TO SIBERIA 01:30:57 - POV DRIVING PAST MONUMENTS WITH PORTRAITS OF STALIN, TRUMAN CHURCHILL. POTSDAM 01:31:11 - THREE LEADERS POSE FOR PHOTOS 01:31:33 - LOOKING DOWN AT GROWING MUSHROOM CLOUD NUCLEAR BOMB ATOMIC 01:31:36 - STALIN LOOKING PENSIVE 01:31:42 - MORE SCHMOOZING IN POTSDAM 01:32:23 - TALKING HEAD 01:33:15 - CITY STREET LIFE, PEOPLE HANGING ONTO SIDE OF TROLLEY 01:33:26 - JET FIGHTER PLANES DURING COLD WAR 01:33:33 - MEN LOADING SUPPLIES DURING BERLIN AIR LIFT, 1948 01:34:35 - 1950, JET FIGHTER PLANES ON ROUTE TO KOREA 01:35:00 - POV PILOT IN FIGHTER PLANE FLYING OVER KOREA 01:35:14 - KOREAN WAR FOOTAGE 01:35:29 - CU NAKED LITTLE BABY CRYING WARS SMALLEST VICTIM 01:35:34 - UNITED NATIONS MEETING 01:35:56 - TALKING HEAD 01:36:41 - STALIN'S FUNERAL CORTEGE 1953 01:37:32 - TALKING HEAD
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1939
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1930s
- File Name: VM-289