Blockade

The longest siege during World War II was that of Leningrad, which lasted for 900 days, from September 1941 to January 1944, when Hitler attempted to starve the Soviet city of three million people into submission. Estimates of the number of residents who died from starvation, disease or cold range from 641,000 to 800,000. Blockade is a dramatically compelling demonstration of the power of archival footage, here synergized by an evocative soundtrack, to bring history to life.