War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.

Welcome to Key Battles of American History,

a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.

Here is your host, James Early.

Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another episode of Key Films of the European Theater of World War II.

This is your host, James Early, as always.

And I have my good buddy, fellow fellow Texan fellow World War II fanatic

Sean McIver to help discuss another film this one is going to go very nicely with the

battle episode that I released earlier in the week because the movie is called

Stalingrad and actually there's been more than one movie called Stalingrad this is

the classic 19 I think it's classic anyway,

1993 German film. This is not the later Russian one or any other version. Well, it's a German

Russian co-production. Okay, I stand correct. It's German-Russian. It's the middle one. It's not

the one that's got Powers Booth as a Russian, and it's from earlier, and it's not the one

that was most recent to be produced in the 2000. Yeah, there was like 2014. The earlier,

Powers Booth as a Russian, I don't think I could take that. I love Powers Booth. Well, I like

him, yeah, but not as Chicago. That's almost as bad as John Wayne as Gengas Khan.

Yeah.

Almost.

Well, let's talk about some of the basics of the movie, and then I'll hand it over to Sean

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