Days of Glory (1944) DVD

Oscar winner Gregory Peck makes his Hollywood debut in this hard-hitting 1944 war film set on the brutal Eastern Front. As Soviet Russia reels under the Nazi onslaught, Vladimir (Gregory Peck), a young Red Army officer, stays behind enemy lines to organise local villagers into an effective guerrilla army. From their hidden base deep in the forests, they emerge to kill small groups of Germans and sabotage the German ammunition supply trains. Vladimir finds himself fiercely attached to each of the men and women under his command - and against his better judgement falling in love with the gentle, frightened refugee Nina (Tamara Toumanova) who has taken shelter with them. Then a fateful order arrives. The Soviet Army is to launch a massive counter-attack against the Nazis - and Vladimir's tiny band of partisans are ordered to fight to the last against an overwhelming force of German tanks...