Children's films about the Great Patriotic War. Films about the war for children Film about victory in the Second World War for children

A friend has collected a list of films for children about the war.
Additions are welcome.

This, of course, is only a small part of all the films, but, judging by the reviews, they are suitable for preschool and primary school age. And for now it will be enough for us to watch sometimes.

1. "Girl Looks for Father" (1959)
The action takes place in Belarus. In a forest house hidden from the Germans, where only a forester and his grandson live, the owner brings a four-year-old girl, unaware that she is the daughter of the legendary partisan “Father Panas.” Later, the naive old man will reveal the girl’s whereabouts to the Gestapo. Having realized his mistake, he will do everything possible to save the children...

2. "It was in intelligence" (1968)
The film is dedicated to the story of the heroic exploits of one of the brave intelligence officers of the Great Patriotic War. A distinctive feature of this film story is that its main character... was barely twelve years old.

3. “Sit down next to me, Mishka” (1977)
About besieged Leningrad, seven-year-old Mishka Afanasyev and his friends - brother Gene and sister Lenochka, who were most often left without parental supervision. Performing concerts in hospitals, the guys communicated with war heroes and, of course, believed in victory.

4. "Oginsky's Polonaise" (1971)
Tale of the war years. An orphaned little violinist and his older friend carry out one serious operation after another behind enemy lines.
A film about Belarusian partisans, about a small, brave and quick-witted musician. Everything ends well here. There is also very beautiful music in the film.

5. "Green Chains" (1970)
Three Leningrad boys in the fall of 1941, having accidentally found a rocket launcher, followed the spy gang and, under the leadership of the experienced security officer Burakov, neutralized the fascist saboteur operating in the guise of the one-armed Uncle Petya.

6. "I am Khortitsa" (1981)
Hard days of August 1941. Enemy troops approached Zaporozhye, the island of Khortytsia was captured, and the Nazis fired at the city from its high banks. Our troops sought to recapture this bridgehead at any cost. The Soviet soldiers were helped by schoolchildren from the “Young Chapaevets” detachment. They found out the location of fascist military installations and used fires to signal the Soviet paratroopers. Khortytsia was liberated.

7. "Trubachev's detachment is fighting" (1957)
The adventures that befell the pioneers who found themselves during the war in the German-occupied territory of Ukraine and began to fight the enemies. The film is based on the novel of the same name - the trilogy by Valentina Oseeva “Vasek Trubachev and his comrades”.

8. "Son of the Regiment" (1946)
During the war, our soldiers pick up an orphan boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the battery. When a battery crew dies in a battle with breakthrough German tanks, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov Military School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.

9. "Girl from the City" (1986)
Film based on the story of the same name.
Seven-year-old Valentina was left an orphan. My father went to the front and disappeared without a trace. My mother and brother died in a bombing. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train and spent the night in a haystack, where she was discovered completely frozen by a village woman, Daria. And although she had three children of her own, Daria left the girl in her house...

10. "Once Upon a Time There Was a Girl" (1944)
An amazing film filmed in besieged Leningrad.
The story of two little siege survivors in besieged Leningrad - 7-year-old Nastenka and 5-year-old Katenka. Hunger, cold, traveling through the frozen city to the Neva with sleds for water, the death of the mother, injury - all this befell the children, who, along with adults, suffered all the hardships of the war.
While working on the film, its creators ventured to film some episodes of the film in Leningrad, besieged by the Germans.

11. "Winter Morning" (1966)
The film takes place in besieged Leningrad. The girl Katya saves an unfamiliar little boy during a bombing, calls him Seryozha, and subsequently takes care of him. One day, the children are visited by Captain Voronov, who is looking for his family. He recognizes his son Mitya and adopts Katya.
This film, like the story, is dedicated to the difficult times of the siege of Leningrad.

12. "Sea Hunter" (1954)
Soviet feature film based on the story of the same name by Nikolai Chukovsky.
The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in the zone of battles for the Black Sea coast. Soviet sailors are tracking an enemy submarine. Meanwhile, the commander of the Sea Hunter, along with one of the sailors, does not return from reconnaissance. Young patriots Katya and Lida report to the boat about a signal from unknown friends who noticed a submarine. Thanks to this, Soviet sailors sink the enemy boat, and the brave scout Katya, who knows the mountain paths of the coast well, discovers the commander of the “Sea Hunter” and a seriously wounded sailor in one of the caves.

13. "My Good Dad" (1970)
An elegiac narration from the perspective of the boy Petya, who recalls his happy pre-war life in Baku, his father, composer and conductor, his always fussing mother, and his little brother Bob. But the war began, and all simple happiness came to an end. But dad went to the front and never returned. When leaving for the front, the father of ten-year-old Petya told him to always be kind to people, to help them in difficulties and troubles. My father did not return home; he died in battle. But his words forever sank into the boy’s soul and became the principle of his life.

14. “The bullet is afraid of the brave, or Mishka takes the fight” (1970)
June 22, 1941. An ordinary morning in an ordinary pioneer camp near the border. Children splash in the river and perceive the landing party descending from the sky with delight, believing that a training exercise is underway. But these are Germans. They herd the children into the camp, surround it with barbed wire and announce that they will soon send everyone to Germany.
A nearby battalion of Soviet tanks tried to break through to the children’s rescue, but was defeated. Only one tank and the tanker, Uncle Vasya, survived. Mishka Skvortsov accidentally stumbles upon him, whom the Germans ordered to burn the pioneer ties, but he deceived them and escaped from the camp. Delighted by this meeting, Mishka asks Uncle Vasya to help rescue the guys from German captivity.
The tankman agrees. An operation to rescue the young pioneers begins on a single tank with one small assistant.

"Son of the Regiment" is a 1946 Soviet feature film.
Director - Vasily Pronin.

During the Great Patriotic War, soldiers of the Red Army pick up an orphan boy. He does not want to go to the rear and become a scout with the battery. When the battery crew dies in battle, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students take part in the military parade on Red Square.

“And the dawns here are quiet,” 1972.
Directed by Stanislav Rostotsky (based on the story of the same name by Boris Vasiliev).

In the front line, a group of female anti-aircraft gunners is forced to engage in an unequal battle with enemy paratroopers. These girls dreamed of great love, tenderness, family warmth - but they faced a cruel war, and they fulfilled their military duty to the end...

“Only “old men” go into battle, 1973
Director Leonid Bykov.

This squadron became a “singing” squadron - this is how Captain Titarenko selected new recruits. His “old men” were no more than twenty, but the “yellow mouths”, recruits from accelerated flight schools, were still not allowed into battle, if possible.

They still had a lot to experience - the heat of battle, and the joy of the first victory over the enemy, and the greatness of brotherhood, sealed by blood, and first love, and the bitterness of loss... And the day will come when, at the command “only old men go into battle,” the former yellowthroats will rush to to your planes...

"Mom, I'm alive", 1977.
Directed by Konrad Wolf.

The film tells the story of four German prisoners of war in the USSR who, while in captivity, agreed to receive training in order to be used against the German Wehrmacht. Each of these soldiers has his own story, his own motive, why he takes such a step. Their comrades treat them with contempt, and in the Red Army they are strangers at first. They begin to understand how difficult their situation is only before the first combat operation.

"Girl from the City", 1986
Director Oleg Nikolaevsky

Seven-year-old Valentina was left an orphan. My father went to the front and disappeared without a trace. My mother and brother died in a bombing. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train and spent the night in a haystack, where she was discovered completely frozen by a village woman, Daria. And although she had four children of her own, Daria left the girl in her house...

"Ballad of a Soldier", 1959
Directed by Grigory Chukhrai.

Great Patriotic War. Young soldier Alyosha Skvortsov accomplishes a feat - he knocks out two German tanks. The command is going to introduce him to the order, but Alyosha asks to be given leave to see his mother. The path home is long and difficult.

Alyosha helps a legless disabled man meet his wife, and the girl Shura helps her get to her aunt. He spends even the last night of his vacation not under his own roof, but saving children from the bombing. And soldier Skvortsov has only a few minutes left to hug his mother and say: “I’ll be back!”

"The Fourth Height", 1978.
Director Igor Voznesensky

About the legendary young actress of Soviet cinema Gula Koroleva, who began acting in films at the age of four. In May 1942, having barely graduated from school, Gulya voluntarily went to the front and soon died heroically in the battle of Stalingrad.

"4 tankmen and a dog", 1966
Directed by Konrad Nalecki, Andrzej Czekalski.

The formed Polish crew of the RUDY tank participates in military operations to liberate the territory of Poland and European countries from the Nazi invaders. Getting into all kinds of stories, the crew always comes out of them with honor.

Viewers from different countries fell in love with the main characters of the film, including the daring officer Olgerd. Few people know that the prototype of this character was a real person - Russian, Siberian, native of the Zalesovsky district (Altai Territory), brave tankman Viktor Vasilyevich Tyufyakov. During the Great Patriotic War, Tyufyakov fought as part of the 1st Polish Corps, created in the USSR, amazing the Poles with his courage.

"The Fate of Man", 1959
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk.

The film tells the story of a Russian soldier who was subjected to terrible trials by the war, deprived of his home and family, and thrown into a concentration camp. But fate did not break his spirit - he survived, defended his right to be human, retained the ability to love...

"2 fighters", 1943
Director Leonid Lukov

The film was shot during the war based on the story “My Countrymen” by Lev Slavin. A sincere and truthful story about the friendship of Arkady Dzyubin, a cheerful, dashing and troubled guy from Odessa, and Sasha Svintsov - “Sasha from Uralmash”.

"Vasek Trubachev and his comrades", 1955
Director Ilya Frez

The film tells about the life and adventures of Soviet schoolchildren in the pre-war years. About how yesterday's friends and classmates almost become enemies.

"The Feat of a Scout", 1947
Directed by Boris Barnet

Soviet intelligence officer Alexey Fedotov, under the name Heinrich Eckert, goes to German-occupied Vinnitsa. His goal is to obtain the secret correspondence of General Kühn with Hitler's headquarters.

The radio operator sent to Alexey for communication was caught by the Germans and shot. Fedotov is forced to look for contact through the underground, but by chance he finds out that one of the underground members is a provocateur. A brilliant professional not only carries out the task of collecting valuable information, but also, returning to his homeland, takes the general himself with him.

"My good dad", 1970
Director Igor Usov

An elegiac narration from the perspective of the boy Petya, who recalls his happy pre-war life in Baku, his father, composer and conductor, his always fussing mother, and his little brother Bob. But the war began, and all simple happiness came to an end. But dad went to the front and never returned. When leaving for the front, the father of ten-year-old Petya told him to always be kind to people, to help them in difficulties and troubles. My father did not return home; he died in battle. But his words forever sank into the boy’s soul and became the principle of his life.

"Volunteers", 1958
Director Yuri Egorov

The action takes place in the years 30 - 50. Inseparable friends Kaytanov, Ufimtsev and Akishin voluntarily became the first metro builders. This film tells about them and their friends Lela, Masha and Tanya and other friends and comrades. They carried their friendship and unity throughout their lives. The labor front, the Spanish voluntary brigades, the Second World War and again post-war work in peacetime, joys and sorrows, victories and losses, love and happiness...

“At an unnamed height”, 2004
Directed by Vyacheslav Nikiforov from a script by Yuri Chernyakov.

The plot of the film is built around the struggle for one of the heights on the border of the former USSR. Time of action - 1944. A turning point in the liberation of the territory of the Soviet Union from the Nazis. Reinforcements are arriving to the regiment. A career officer and a former criminal, a shooting champion and a military translator - the War brought them all together at an anonymous height.

Here, in the Belarusian forests, one will begin a duel with a German sniper, the other will lead a company of scouts to death, but first they will meet love, but for many these bitter days will forever remain the happiest in life.

The action of the film takes place in two time layers: in our days and during the war years, during the heavy defensive battles of August 1942. The main characters of the film are four “black trackers” (people of this dubious profession are also called “black diggers”) - Borman, Skull, Chukha and Alcohol. They are excavating in places where battles once took place in order to later sell the medals, orders, documents and German weapons they found.

This business is profitable, but dangerous. One day, something strange begins to happen at the excavation site: in the found soldiers’ books that belonged to the dead soldiers of the Red Army, photographs of the “pathfinders” themselves are suddenly discovered. Trying to come to their senses, colleagues in the “black” business go swimming in the lake and... find themselves in 1942. In the midst of heavy fighting.

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It's not so easy to find good cartoons and films about the Great Patriotic War. I want classics, authenticity and sincerity - after all, this is our story, and the slightest falsehood can ruin the impression. What to show children about the Second World War so that they don’t get bored while watching?

In our selection you will not see either “Brest Fortress” or the film “We are from the Future”. We have collected for you 12 works by Soviet directors and animators that you can safely show to your child without spoiling his psyche with premature experiences and the sight of a bloody massacre. The main thing is correctly placed accents: the concepts of good and evil, courage, true patriotism and pride for the Motherland.

CARTOONS

1. Cornflower (1973)
Director: Stella Aristakesova

A boy is looking for his Grandfather all over the world and no one can help him. Finally, he sees a ship named after his grandfather, a war hero.

2. MEMORIES (1986)
Director: Vladimir Arbekov

The cartoon tells the story of a little girl who, during the Great Patriotic War, in a village devastated by the Nazis, dreamed of going to school.

3. THE LEGEND OF THE OLD LIGHTHOUSE (1976)
Director: Witold Bordzilovsky

A cartoon for children about the Great Patriotic War, about real heroes, about how a boy and a girl helped Soviet paratroopers enter the bay.

4. SALUTE (1975)
Director: Irina Gurvich

A cartoon about a boy and his dad waiting for fireworks on Victory Day - May 9. The boy learns that his grandfather, like his friends’ grandfathers, did not return from the war, protecting their bright future.

5. GUERILLA SNOW Maiden (1981)
Director: Irina Gurvich

Cartoon about children of war. Great Patriotic War. Harsh winter. A little girl carries a report to the partisans into the forest.

6. SOLDIER'S LAMP (1984)
Director: Kirill Malyantovich.

In memory of the feat of fathers and grandfathers - winners of the Great Patriotic War.
© EKRAN, 1984

7. A SOLDIER'S TALE (1983)
Director: Alla Gracheva

Based on a fairy tale by K. Paustovsky.
When Peter went to fight the Nazis at the front, his son gave him a rhinoceros beetle caught near his home, which the soldier took with him. Now they have to plunge into battles and battles, see how the sky turns black due to gunpowder and the enemy siege, and hundreds of bullets will circle around them. But they will definitely return to where they are expected.

WAR MOVIES FOR CHILDREN

1. GIRL FROM THE CITY (1986)
Director: Oleg Nikolaevsky

An amazingly touching, sincere and bright film.
Seven-year-old Valentina was left an orphan. My father went to the front and disappeared without a trace. My mother and brother died in a bombing. During the evacuation, the girl fell behind the train and spent the night in a haystack, where she was discovered completely frozen by a village woman, Daria. And although she had four children of her own, Daria left the girl in her house...

2. SON OF A REGIMENT (1946)
Director: Vasily Pronin

During the war, our soldiers pick up an orphan boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the battery. When a battery crew dies in a battle with breakthrough German tanks, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov Military School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.

3. MY GOOD DAD (1970)
Director: Igor Usov

4. GREEN CHAINS (1970)

Three Leningrad boys in the fall of 1941, having accidentally found a rocket launcher, followed the spy gang and, under the leadership of the experienced security officer Burakov, neutralized the fascist saboteur operating in the guise of the one-armed Uncle Petya.

5. Once upon a time there lived a GIRL (1944)
Director: Victor Eisymont

The story of two little siege survivors in besieged Leningrad: 7-year-old Nastenka and 5-year-old Katenka. Hunger, cold, traveling through the frozen city to the Neva with sleds for water, the death of the mother, injury - all this befell the children, who, along with adults, suffered all the hardships of the war.

The film was shot in besieged Leningrad. Natalya Zashchipina’s first film work (she acted in films from the age of five).

The last few days all I did was watch films about the war. The child is now at the dacha, so at first I even watched modern TV series. And then I switched to children's films. Honestly, I watched a lot of children's films about the war and chose for my child what I would like to show in the near future. Well, there are also films in my selection that we have already watched and which impressed my son at the time. I only included movies here that I liked. I looked a lot more.

1. "A girl is looking for her father"

The action takes place in Belarus. In a forest house hidden from the Germans, where only a forester and his grandson live, the owner brings a four-year-old girl, unaware that she is the daughter of the legendary partisan “Father Panas.” Later, the naive old man will reveal the girl’s whereabouts to the Gestapo. Having realized his mistake, he will do everything possible to save the children...

This was the first war film that my son watched. This was two or three years ago. And the child was very impressed then.

2. "It was in intelligence"

The film is dedicated to the story of the heroic exploits of one of the brave intelligence officers of the Great Patriotic War. A distinctive feature of this film story is that its main character... was barely twelve years old.

The film is based on a real story, about a real person. In some ways it reminds me of "Son of the Regiment".

3. "Sit next to me, Mishka"

I've never seen this film before. And yesterday I looked and cried. No, everything ends well there, the film is clearly for children, more than anything. I would start introducing children to the story of besieged Leningrad with this film. But the film made a great impression on me, apparently against the backdrop of all the nasty stuff that I foolishly started reading on the Internet before May 9th.

Abstract to the film: "About besieged Leningrad, seven-year-old Mishka Afanasyev and his friends - brother Gene and sister Lenochka, who were most often left without parental supervision. Performing concerts in hospitals, the guys communicated with war heroes and, of course, believed in victory."

4. "Oginsky's Polonaise"

Tale of the war years. An orphaned little violinist and his older friend carry out one serious operation after another behind enemy lines.

A film about Belarusian partisans, about a small, brave and quick-witted musician. Everything ends well here too. There is also very beautiful music in the film. I've never seen this movie before. I watched it yesterday and liked it, I recommend it.

Hard days of August 1941. Enemy troops approached Zaporozhye, the island of Khortytsia was captured, and the Nazis fired at the city from its high banks. Our troops sought to recapture this bridgehead at any cost. The Soviet soldiers were helped by schoolchildren from the “Young Chapaevets” detachment. They found out the location of fascist military installations and used fires to signal the Soviet paratroopers. Khortytsia was liberated.

Military adventures in the spirit of the Elusive Avengers. There are, however, historical inaccuracies in the film. But you can watch it with a child, it’s a very interesting movie. Anyway, I liked it.

7. "Trubachev's detachment is fighting"

Good afternoon, dear readers!

On the eve of the Victory Day holiday, we talk with children, teach and read, talk about the exploits of our people, look for photographs of our relatives so that we can march in the parade with the Immortal Regiment. And children proudly tell and show their friends that this is their great-grandfather, who fought and became a hero.

Children do not know much about the war or its heroes. Therefore, the task of parents, teachers and educators is to provide as much information as possible, to tell children in an accessible form about the feat of our people over the fascist invaders.

There are many films about the Great Patriotic War that the whole family can watch and discuss what they saw. If the child is interested, he will later want to learn more about the hero and read a book about the war.

What films about war can be shown to children? There are, of course, scary films that traumatize children's psyches. But there are also good old films in which children can clearly see how children during the war helped their parents, worked, and participated in partisan movements. During the war, children grew up quickly. After all, they, along with adults, had to experience all the hardships of wartime.

My granddaughter and I also watch children’s films about the war, and then we talk. I would like our children to never forget about the feat of the people, that their grandfathers and great-grandfathers did not spare their lives for the sake of victory.

Today I will make a short review of children's films about the war, which we ourselves watched and which I recommend you watch with your children.

"Sit next to me, Mishka"

1977, director Yakov Bazelyan.

The film is based on Yuri German’s story “That’s How It Was.”

This film is about the children of besieged Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.

May 1941. Weekdays. Mishka Afanasyev is a seven-year-old boy, preparing to go to first grade. In the summer he fell ill with scarlet fever and was hospitalized. On June 22, 1941, the war began. A military pilot is also in the hospital. He rushes to the front to beat the enemy, but the doctor does not let him go.

Misha became friends with the pilot.

The bombing began. Children flee to a bomb shelter. The bomb hits the hospital. With a shrapnel wound, Mishka and the military pilot were taken to the hospital, where they spent the entire summer.

In the fall, Mishka is discharged from the hospital. At home he is left alone. His friends Lena and Gena Loshadkin give concerts in the hospital in front of the wounded. A shell hit their apartment and they began to live with Mishka. The bread cards were left at the old apartment, Mishka shares his rations with friends.

Children endure all the hardships of the blockade, cold and hunger. Later, Misha’s dad takes the children to the fire station, thereby saving them from hunger.

In 1944, after the blockade was lifted, Mishka met with the pilot.

A very good film for children that the whole family can watch.

"Girl from the city"

Based on the story of the same name by L. F. Voronkova.

Yulechka and I watched this film over the weekend. We liked it.

War. The seven-year-old girl Valya is left alone. The house was bombed, the Germans killed the mother. Valya along with other people are evacuated to the Urals. But for some reason she lags behind the train and hides with several women in a haystack, where the kind woman Daria finds her.

Daria takes the girl to her place. Feeds, washes, treats her. And despite the fact that she herself has three children and a husband at the front, the woman leaves the girl with her family and does not send her to an orphanage.

Daria managed to melt the girl’s heart and became a real mother for her.

A wonderful film for children.

"Once upon a time there was a girl"

Awesome old movie. Black and white. The film, of course, is not of the best quality. But this film was shot in 1944, in Leningrad.

My granddaughter and I watched it last year before the Victory Day.

A film about besieged Leningrad. The story of two girls, seven-year-old Nastya and five-year-old Katenka.

Cold, hunger, traveling with a sled to the frozen Neva for water. Death of mother. The girls had to grow up with the terrible hardships of war.

Touching film. How passionately the child actors played their roles! It's impossible to watch without tears! The film very well shows scenes of besieged Leningrad and children who, no matter what, remain children.

Natalya Zashchipina and Nina Ivanova played their roles wonderfully. Later they became actresses. Nina Ivanova played the role of a teacher in the film “Spring on Zarechknaya Street.”

"A girl is looking for her father"

An old film, directed by Lev Golub in 1959.

Adventure film.

The film is about a little girl, the daughter of a partisan detachment, who is left alone. An old forester hides her in the forest. The forester's grandson saves the girl, risking his life.

The girl is being sought by the Nazis who want to use her as a hostage.

"Officers"

An all-time legendary film for children and adults.

Every year we watch it with great interest.

What other films can you watch about war with children?

"Tomorrow there was a war"

1987 The film is based on the story by Boris Vasiliev.

1940 Small provincial town. Ninth-grader Vika Lyuberetskaya reads poems by the banned poet Sergei Yesenin in a literature lesson.

Soon her father is arrested as an “enemy of the people.” The teacher is simply “bullying” Vika.

But tomorrow is war.

"Fourth height"

1977 A film based on the story by E. Ilyina about the girl Gula Koroleva, a little artist who acted in films from the age of 4.

In May 1942, Gulya went to the front and died heroically in the battle of Stalingrad.

I myself read this book more than once as a child and loved it very much.

"Winter morning"

1966 Based on the story “The Seventh Symphony” by Tamara Tsinberg.

The film takes place in besieged Leningshrad. The girl Katya saves the boy Seryozha during the bombing and takes care of him in the future. She helps care for the wounded in the hospital. There she meets Captain Voronov. The officer believed that his wife and son died at the beginning of the war. It turns out he is Seryozha-Dima’s dad. Voronov adopts the girl Katya.

"Son of the Regiment"

1946 Screen adaptation of the story by Valentin Kataev.

A Soviet intelligence officer brings a boy, Vanya Solntsev, to the regiment. The battery commander wants to adopt him, but dies in battle. The regiment takes care of an orphan. Vanya becomes the son of the regiment.

More films about war that you can watch with your children.

"Vasek Trubachev and his comrades", "Trubachev's detachment is fighting"

"Two fighters"

"Oginsky's Polonaise"

"Alexander Little"

"Five Brave"

"Four tankmen and a dog"

"Eaglet" - about the hero Valya Kotik.

And cartoons about war and children of war, which we also watched.

"Memory"

"A Soldier's Tale"

Here is a small selection of films about war for children today.