The Battle of Stalingrad, fought between 1942 and 1943 on the banks of the Volga, ends with the annihilation of the German Sixth Army and the deaths of at least a million German soldiers, Red Army troops, and Soviet civilians. This three-part account, made for the battle's 60th anniversary, draws on previously unreleased film footage and interviews with survivors from both sides, German veterans and Soviet soldiers and civilians who describe the fighting street by street and the starvation and cold that followed the encirclement. The film traces how Hitler's forces advanced into the city, how the Soviet counteroffensive trapped them, and how the surrender that followed became, for many Germans at home, the moment propaganda stopped being believable. It treats Stalingrad as the psychological hinge of the war for both countries, the point where German confidence in eventual victory collapsed and Soviet resistance found its proof of concept. The survivor testimony is blunt rather than reflective, describing what happened without much softening.