Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East, a 2011 war documentary series which covers many of the battles fought by the Soviet Union against the German army during the Second World War.
This starts in June 1941 when the German army invaded the USSR under a campaign codenamed "Operation Barbarossa". With this sudden and expected act of aggression the Red Army had no time to mobilise and as a result, the German Army made it to within miles of occupying Russia's capital, Moscow. The tide would turn for Germany as the Russian winter hit.
Soviet Storm: WW2 in the East follows the Second World War from the perspective of the Red right until the fall of Berlin in April 1945.