Secrets of the Dead Deadliest Battle (Season 9, Episode 6)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Secrets of the Dead

Deadliest Battle (Season 9, Episode 6)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Previously secret Soviet accounts of the Soviet resistance to Germany's Operation Blue in 1942 overturn some established assumptions about the course of the battles and also explain the surprising outcome of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Director

Brian McDonnell (as Brian J. McDonnell)

Writer

Michael Eldridge

Composer

Nicholas Palmer

Editors

Brian McDonnell (as Brian J. McDonnell) | Michael L. McKimmey

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Edit Released

Updated May 19, 2010

Release date

May 19, 2010 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

7 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
16 cast members

Name	Known for
Liev Schreiber Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Spotlight (I) (2015)
Dan Gold Narrator (UK version) (voice) Narrator (UK version) (voice) See fewer	Secrets of the Dead (2000)
David Glantz Self - Author, The Stalingrad Trilogy (as David M. Glantz) Self - Author, The Stalingrad Trilogy (as David M. Glantz) See fewer	War of the Century (1999)
Kevin Farrell Self - Chief of Military History, West Point (as Colonel Kevin W. Farrell) Self - Chief of Military History, West Point (as Colonel Kevin W. Farrell) See fewer	Fury (2014)
Sergei Khrushchev Self - Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University Self - Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University See fewer	Serye volki (1993)
Walter P. Guenther Self - German 6th Army (as Dr. Walter P. Guenther) Self - German 6th Army (as Dr. Walter P. Guenther) See fewer	Secrets of the Dead (2000)
Wigand Wuster Self - German 6th Army (as Dr. Wigand Wuster) Self - German 6th Army (as Dr. Wigand Wuster) See fewer	Secrets of the Dead (2000)
Anatoliy Mereshko Self - Soviet 62nd Army (as Anatoly Merezhko) Self - Soviet 62nd Army (as Anatoly Merezhko) See fewer	Sekretnaya papka (2016)
Joseph Goebbels Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Der Führer (1932)
Hermann Göring Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Wunder des Fliegens: Der Film eines deutschen Fliegers (1935)
Heinrich Himmler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Twisted Cross - Twelve Years that Shook the Earth
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Nikita Khrushchev Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	This Hour Has Seven Days (1964)
Friedrich Paulus Self - Commander, German 6th Army (archive footage) Self - Commander, German 6th Army (archive footage) See fewer
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
Erich von Manstein Self - Commander, 11th Army (archive footage) Self - Commander, 11th Army (archive footage) See fewer