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Title A Grand Tradition
Production Date 1967
Country of Production USSR
Duration 00:19:51
Production Company Central Documentary Film Studios, Moscow
Film Subject Era 1917-1924; 1939-1945; 1946-1953; 1954-1975
Genre Documentary
Summary Film documenting the history of the Red Army from its formation in 1918 through to the Second World War and up to the 1968 May Day parade that features nuclear-capable rockets.
Original Title традиции
Subjects Soviet army; Red Army; First World War (1914-1918); Second World War (1939-1945); Military parades; Weapons; Nuclear weapons; Parachute jumping; Tanks; Aircraft; Air force; Wars
People Grechko, Andrei (1903-1976); Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870-1924); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Goering, Hermann (1893-1946); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); Zakharov, Matvei (1898-1972)
Places USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics); Germany; Abyssinia (Ethiopia); Russia
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Sound
Colour Format Black and White
Language English (Narrator)
Module Wars & Revolutions
Copyright The British Film Institute